FX’s Alien: Earth, the hit series from creator Noah Hawley, premiered to 9.2 million views globally in its first six days of streaming on Disney+.*
Episode 3 of Alien: Earth, “Metamorphosis,” is also now streaming on Disney+ internationally and Tuesday, August 19 on Hulu at 8 p.m. ET and on the FX linear channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT. In episode 3, The team returns home with unexpected cargo. An unsettling experiment occurs, and a new talent is discovered. Written by Noah Hawley and Bob DeLaurentis; Directed by Dana Gonzales.
Future episodes of the 8-episode season will premiere each following Wednesday on Disney+.
Alien: Earth is off to a great start with critics joining fans in praising the show, including:
- “FX’s fantastic Alien: Earth…is a remarkable achievement” – TIME
- “one of the best TV shows of the year” – NPR’s All Things Considered
- “feels like nothing else on television” – RogerEbert.com
- “Riveting” – Rolling Stone
- “everything Alien fans could want” – USA Today
- “one of the most well-produced science-fiction series of this decade” – The Cut
- “a thrilling, brainy, and wonderfully gruesome hit” – Esquire
- “It’s a textbook for how to leave the viewer salivating for what’s next” – Boston Globe
- “as gripping as a Facehugger” – Mashable
- “Noah Hawley has made an amazing piece of science fiction on the strength of solid production and creature design, an incredible cast, and needle drops that make me want a cigarette” – IGN
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s Alien: Earth.
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
Led by Chandler, the series showcases an expansive international cast, which includes Timothy Olyphant (“Kirsh”), Alex Lawther (“Hermit”), Samuel Blenkin (“Boy Kavalier”), Babou Ceesay (“Morrow”), Adrian Edmondson (“Atom Eins”), David Rysdahl (“Arthur Sylvia”), Essie Davis (“Dame Sylvia”), Lily Newmark (“Nibs”), Erana James (“Curly”), Adarsh Gourav (“Slightly”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Smee”), Kit Young (“Tootles”), Diêm Camille (“Siberian”), Moe Bar-El (“Rashidi”) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Yutani”).
FX’s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. Alien: Earth is produced by FX Productions.
* A view is defined as total stream time divided by runtime.
