{"id":96172,"date":"2025-10-24T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/96172\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:46:08","slug":"earth-season-2-could-bring-big-trouble-for-wendy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/96172\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Season 2 Could Bring Big Trouble For Wendy"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPOILER WARNING: Contains major spoilers for Season 1<\/p>\n

Across its eight episodes, the first season of Alien: Earth<\/a> proved a bold addition to the Xenomorph canon. Noah Hawley\u2019s take on the legendary space-horror saga brought the extraterrestrial menace \u2013 and several other standout species \u2013 to, yes, Earth. But the real focus of the show was Sydney Chandler\u2019s Wendy, the consciousness of a terminally-ill child transported into an android body, set against a backdrop of a future-Earth ruled by several warring corporations, Weyland-Yutani among them. Along the way, Wendy and her fellow \u2018Lost Boys\u2019 forged an unexpected partnership with the Xenomorphs \u2013 and the season ended on a spine-tingling note, as the synths \u2013 with their alien allies \u2013 declared: \u201cNow we rule.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Hawley, that triumphant final note poses plenty of possibilities for a potential Season 2. But it won\u2019t be plain sailing. \u201cThat moment of, \u2018Now we rule,\u2019 is such an exhilarating moment for the audience. And then the question is\u2026 well, it was an exhilarating moment when Dustin Hoffman ran out of the church and they got on the bus [in The Graduate]. But what comes after?\u201d he tells Empire. \u201cThe [Weyland-Yutani] ships are coming and all they have is problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the show continue (a second season has not yet been confirmed) Hawley wants to dig deeper into the future-Earth he established, where the ruling powers are capitalistic. \u201cI\u2019m interested in exploring the corporate politics of it,\u201d he says. \u201cAs we\u2019ve seen, there\u2019s an irresistible gravitational pull toward monopoly that corporations and billionaires have. There\u2019s a bit of Game Of Thrones<\/a> to the corporate world that feels interesting to me.\u201d Still, the core of Alien: Earth will be Wendy and friends \u2013 moving beyond the island they\u2019ve been inhabiting. \u201cI do think this story of these children\u2019s autonomy continues to be the heart of the show, but Alien is always about levels of containment,\u201d Hawley explains. \u201cThe island is a level of containment and what happens when you expand past that level? Ultimately, the show is called Alien: Earth. I know that, given the canon, I can\u2019t blow up the Earth, but I do think that containment is going to be very hard to maintain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever happens next, Hawley has plenty of big ideas to be explored through Wendy, the Xenomorphs, and the tech-giant future. \u201cBecause it\u2019s a story about humanity trapped between nature that\u2019s trying to kill us and the technology we\u2019ve created that also seems to be trying to kill us, that feels a lot like the world that I live in,\u201d he reasons, \u201cand so I feel like there\u2019s a lot there to really grapple with.\u201d Now he rules.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Noah Hawley interview \u2013 on Alien: Earth Season 1 and what comes next \u2013 in the Stranger Things 5 issue<\/a>, on sale now. Order a copy online here<\/a>. Alien: Earth is streaming now in full on Disney+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER WARNING: Contains major spoilers for Season 1 Across its eight episodes, the first season of Alien: Earth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-96172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}