TV Obsessive
This week, on The TV Obsessive Podcast Episode 122, Caemeron and Ryan discuss the season finale of Alien: Earth, S1E8, “The Real Monsters.” But first, in the news:
- Jimmy Kimmel is back on ABC, but not all affiliates
- Apple TV+ is delaying release of The Savant
- Welcome to Derry is coming October 26
- Finally, a Baywatch reboot
On Alien: Earth S1E8, “The Real Monsters”
Created by Noah Hawley, written by Noah Hawley and Migizi Pensoneau, and directed by Dana Gonzales
The Season 1 finale finds all the hybrids locked in a cell together, with Joe and Morrow locked together in another one. Boy Kavalier comes to the hybrids’ cell and tells them that he built his own synth when he was a child so that it could kill his abusive father.
Wendy takes over the network and communication systems at Prodigy, and opens their cell while the hybrids kill Kavalier’s security. She also unlocks the cell holding Joe and Morrow. Joe follows the hybrids while Morrow goes off to find the lab and all the samples he wants to bring back to Yutani.
Morrow and Kirsh fight in the lab, where Kirsh is badly injured, but is eventually able to render Morrow unconscious. Smee and Slightly show up and take both Kirsh and Morrow hostage while Nibs does the same to Dame Sylvia.
Atom finds Joe and tricks him into Kavalier’s room, where the eye alien has been released. It attacks Joe, but Wendy is able to both save him and also freeze and control Atom, who is revealed to be a synthetic. The eye alien escapes to the island, where it enters Arthur’s corpse, reviving him.
Using both xenomorphs, Wendy, Joe, and the Lost Boys capture Kavalier, Kirsh, Atom, Morrow, and Dame just as Yutani soldiers approach the island. With the hybrids now in charge, Wendy declares, “Now we rule.”
- Who are the real monsters?
- Why are the hybrids so powerful?
- Wendy hacking the network
- Speculating about what’s to come
Next Time on The TV Obsessive Podcast…
We switch gears to pick up coverage of Task on HBO.
