606. Alien: Earth Season 1 Review (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Anthony Ha)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Anthony Ha join us to discuss Season 1 of the FX series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and Aliens. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.8	Hi, I'm David Barr Kurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories, and welcome to episode 606 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
1:12.1	Today on the show will be discussing season one of the FX series Alien Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and aliens. And this will include spoilers for everything in the show, so just be aware of that.
1:17.5	And I'm joined by three guests. So first up, we've got Andrea Kale, making her 43rd appearance
1:23.4	on the show. She's a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop, and her short fiction appears in
1:28.5	the Writers of the Future Anthology, Fantasy Magazine, and Lightspeed. She's been a television writer,
1:34.2	producer, and script supervisor for shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Chew, and
1:39.5	WWE's Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown, and she's currently a writer for PixelBerry
1:44.7	Studios. So, Andrea, welcome to the show. Thanks, Dave. Good to be back. The next joke we've got
1:51.3	Matthew Cressel, making his 42nd appearance on the show. He's the author of the novels King of Shards,
1:57.4	Queen of Static, and Space Trucker Jess, the short story collection histories within us,
2:02.6	and to the writing advice book dispatches from the Outer Deep. He also hosts the Nerdcount podcast
2:07.5	along with Mercurio Di Rivera, and together with Ellen Datlow, he hosts the monthly fantastic fiction
2:12.7	reading series in New York City. So Matt, welcome to the show. Thanks, Dave. Always good to be here.
2:19.3	And also joining us today is Anthony Ha, making his 34th appearance on the show. His short fiction
2:25.2	appears in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Ristlet and in the chat book Love Songs for Monsters.
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