- Created by Noah Hawley
- August 12, 2025 to Present
- FX / FX on Hulu
- Based on Alien by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett
Main Cast
- Wendy (formerly Marcy)-Sydney Chandler
- Hermit-Alex Lawther
- Dame Sylvia-Essie Davis
- Boy Kavalier-Samuel Blenkin
- Morrow-Babou Ceesay
- Slightly (formerly known as Aarush Singh)-Adarsh Gourav
- Curly-Erana James
- Nibs-Lily Newmark
- Smee-Jonathan Ajayi
- Arthur Sylvia-David Rysdahl
- Siberian-Diêm Camille
- Rashidi-Moe Bar-El
- Atom Eins-Adrian Edmondson
- Kirsh-Timothy Olyphant
Recurring/Guest Cast
- Yutani-Sandra Yi Sencindiver
- Tootles/Isaac-Kit Young
- Zoya Zaveri-Richa Moorjani
- Hoyt-Lloyd Everitt
- Anant-Tayme Thapthimthong
- Rahim-Amir Boutrous
- Chibuzo-Karen Aldridge
- Shmuel-Michael Smiley
- Malachite-Jamie Bisping
- Teng-Andy Yu
- Bronski-Max Rinehart
- Petrovich-Enzo Cilenti
- Clem-Tom Moya
- Sullivan-Victoria Masoma
- Dinsdale-Tanapol Chuksrida
These two episodes while enjoyable had some issues.
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When the Weyland-Yutani vessel Maginot crashes, a group of children transferred into synthetic bodies sent to help come face-to-face with a xenomorph and deal with the consequences of that encounter.
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In Space, No One…
- Written and Directed by Noah Hawley
- September 2, 2025
Flashback episodes are always a gamble. They are an even bigger gamble when you only have a small number of episodes (eight for example) to tell your story with. They take that risk with In Space, No One…
Rather than telling important information during the shows present using brief flashbacks, Noah Hawley and pals give the viewer an entire flashback episode sidelining what one would think is the main cast for people who we really don’t need to know too much about. Was this Hawley living his dream of directing Alien? It even gives these once nameless (Morrow aside) characters subplots such has the one officer sleeping with the captain and beginning a relationship. This is a bit much for characters we barely see beyond this episode.
As a story telling us how things came to be the question is: Did Alien: Earth really need it to tell this season’s story? The Maginot was on a deep space mission collecting alien life for study and experimentation before it crashed in Prodigy territory. The only significant new bit we get is that it was no series of accidents but sabotage of the part of Prodigy to get the specimens.
That’s fine but it’s not like the ship made a pretty controlled landing. It crashed and by all statements was moving relatively unguided through space because of the sabotage. Either a massive amount of calculations were done to make sure it crashed in Prodigy territory in adequate shape or it was a fortunate coinky dink that it crashed in Prodigy territory straining all logic even that which allows for xenomorphs and that eyeball creature.
The saboteur is just a plot device to further explain things that did not need further explaining. He is just a random character that says a few lines and exists solely to make all the things for the story to happen when being a fortuitous accident was more logical. I don’t even think we get his name he’s that poorly done. He just shows up and is gone. His actions and how well they work out make the scenario a bit improbable.
Morrow (Babou Ceesay) is given more biographical data and a level of complexity that moves him into central character territory. He’s not even a strong company man. What he’s doing on behalf of Yutani is a debt to the woman that basically saved his life. Present Yutani’s grandmother took Morrow in when he was a child and fixed his arm and gave him a life he never could’ve had while living on the streets. We knew he was dedicated and his reason could have been succinctly covered in the present while keeping the main story moving.
The eyeball thing (Ocellus) takes on some positive qualities. An alien leech creature gets out of its containment and the Ocellus tries to warn the scientist. It causes the audience to consider it as opposition (on humanity’s side) if not some type of heroic force rather than another weird horror found in the cold depths of space. You are also left questioning why the containment procedures on a ship that knows just how dangerous what they are transporting is are so lax.
Conveniently everybody is just unobservant enough for chaos to ensue which is convenient because otherwise the sabotage would not have worked. All the dialogue tells the view if they only had that to worry about things would have turned out okay. The sluggo squirted its babies into a bottle of water and to make it tense there are numerous moments when somebody ALMOST drinks it! It is a bit of silliness.
In Space, No One… expands upon Morrow and the eyeball creature but in the end I’m not sure if as an episode it was necessary or helpful to the series. I think we knew enough to get us through any story set in the present rather than needing a look at the past of this fictional story.
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The Fly
- Directed by Ugla Hauksdóttir
- Written by Noah Hawley and Lisa Long
- September 9, 2025
Every science-fiction series needs an outside observer. The one person or character that can dispassionately analyze the situation and tell the blunt reality-be it machine or a disconnected human. Kirsch (Timothy Olyphant) provides that and that has made him one of my favorite characters.
Nibs (Lily Newmark) who was going all crazy in Observation thinking she was having a baby gets her memory wiped in a rather blunt and pragmatic move to fix her. What fails to make sense is to toss her right away back in with everybody else or for Atom Eins (Adrian Edmondson) to not give an order for people to not talk about the events that caused her to crack which happens immediately undoing everything they just did to solve the issue. Not even a cover story to keep things quiet. With eight episodes you need to keep things moving after breaking stride with a flashback but blatant stupidity should not be the way.
The exchange between Kirsch and Morrow (Babou Ceesay) in the elevator is excellent. It’s two guys who hate each other sizing each other up with words and subtly threatening one another. You do not get much dialogue like that anymore.
And on Kirsch it looks like he has an agenda of his own which they hang a bit of a lantern on. So now we know, but what that agenda is we don’t know. I can’t believe he’s working for Weyland-Yutani so I’m guessing this is a plot thread for an anticipated Season Two.
What happens with his assistant Isaac (Kit Young) or whatever they’re calling him these days feels a little bit too convenient. Why leave one person alone working with extra-terrestrial organisms no one there knows a thing about? It would seem like a basic protocol to have at least one other person present or just watching things beyond the random popping in of Kirsch. Either Kirsch is given some very broad authority and left relatively unsupervised, or nobody working on the script gave this too much thought.
This is the episode where I finally seriously question how Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) can run a multi-trillion dollar corporation. Mostly he’s an obnoxious douchebag in this. He’s not sinister or dangerous, but an entitled jerk who thinks he knows it all. He’s running around in his pajamas and he goes to a very important meeting in bare feet that he puts on a table while purposely antagonizing Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindiver). That strikes me as a genuinely bad idea. You would think someone who has risen to the heights of power as he has would know better than to purposely push buttons in a way that lets her know he is taking advantage of what was found by her company.
Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is barely in this though her brother Hermit (Alex Lawther) is as he concocts a hairbrained plan to run away with Wendy. On the surface the idea sounds obvious but considering these corporations are also governments where could they go and be safe? Prodigy would hunt them and it is logical to assume other corporations would learn of this new technology (Wendy) moving freely and hunt her too. The broad setup of the current political climate we got from Hermit a few episodes back hinted at that.
Wendy also appears to be taking a very pro-xenomorphic stance when we do see her despite the dangers she has seen them pose. I am not saying she must go gung-ho on experimenting on them but maybe a little less standing up for them especially since she has seen one of them turn into a near unstoppable killing machine.
They try for a fake out to make you think Slightly (Adarsh Gourav) is going to use Hermit but instead use Dame Sylvia’s (Essie Davis) husband Arthur (David Rysdahl) who had conveniently been fired over his objections to what was done with Nibs. I saw that coming too far away. He was all plot device.
The Fly was a bit of a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I liked some of the development that occurred but those developments were undone by stupidity clearly aimed at a chaotic climax. It made them more fluff than anything. An okay episode but a decided downturn.
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An unnecessary flashback episode followed by an episode with too much nonsense to be forgiven has me worried final the final two. Fingers crossed.
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