{"id":115610,"date":"2025-09-05T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115610\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:37:08","slug":"earth-delivers-a-horror-show-in-in-space-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115610\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth’ Delivers a Horror Show in “In Space, No One…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spoilers for Episode 5 of Alien: Earth to follow.<\/p>\n

We have officially passed the halfway point of Alien: Earth\u2018s first season, and after spending some down time observing things and laying lots of groundwork in last week\u2019s episode<\/a>, the series takes a narrative detour to show what really happened to the crew of the USCSS Maginot before it crashed on Earth in its pilot episode<\/a>. Viewers clamoring for more Xenomorph action will no doubt find plenty to enjoy in the aptly-titled \u201cIn Space, No One.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written and directed by series creator Noah Hawley, the season\u2019s fifth episode puts (most of) the characters and stories we\u2019ve been building up for the past four episodes on the back burner, giving the director a chance to flex his horror muscles with an exciting, contained creature feature of an episode. We\u2019re not entirely sure this story needed to be inserted at this point in the season, but as to where it should\u00a0have been inserted, we\u2019re also not entirely sure.<\/p>\n

Some talking points:<\/p>\n

Learning the new(ish) cast of characters, which includes Captain Dinsdale (Tanapol Chuksrida), Science Officers Bronski (Max Rinehart) and Chibuzo (Fargo\u2019s Karen Aldridge), Chief Engineer Shmuel (Kill List\u2019s Michael Smiley) and his apprentice Malachite (Jamie Bisping), Executive Officer Zaveri (Fargo\u2019s Richa Moorjani), Medical Officer Rahim (Amir Boutrous), and the mysterious Teng (Andy Yu).
\nMorrow\u2019s (Babou Ceesay) hunt for the ship\u2019s saboteur.
\nTense set pieces involving the Xenomorph, the Tick(s) and the Eye, the latter of which is quickly becoming the series\u2019 MVP.
\nHow much suspense mileage the episode gets out of that damn water bottle.
\nThe revelation that Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) was the mastermind behind the ship\u2019s sabotage.<\/p>\n

This is an episode that\u00a0really\u00a0worked for me, but Joe had a few qualms with its placement in the season. It\u2019s understandable, given the fact that we don\u2019t really learn anything here that we didn\u2019t already know, outside of Boy Kavalier\u2019s involvement with the crash, but one thing we do agree on is that Hawley directs the hell out of this thing.<\/p>\n

And we must ask again: are we\u00a0ever\u00a0going to find out what that plant pod creature does? The show keeps teasing it!<\/p>\n

Listen to Joe and me discuss the episode in full below on the Horror Queers\u00a0Patreon:<\/p>\n

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Coming Up Next: Next week we\u2019re discussing episode 1.06, \u201cThe Fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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