799: Earth 2120 (feat. Xenomorph)

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Noah Hawley’s TV take on the Alien franchise, “Alien: Earth,” is crashing into a building near us, bringing gross aliens old and new, suspicious synths, terrified (and bloody) humans, and a new class of hybrid life forms with the minds of children and superhuman bodies. Does the show give us enough Xenomorphs? Is the eye alien a breakout fan favorite? Was replaying “Alien” on a different ship a good idea? Why is Trillionaire Island so understaffed? We break it all down....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 799, January 2026.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.2	And this episode is about a TV series recently concluded on FX and Disney Plus.
0:20.1	It is Alien, colon, Earth, the first of the alien franchise to be a TV series instead of a movie.
0:29.9	It's Noah Hawley, who you may know from another TV series based on movies, Fargo, sort of based on movies, Fargo, or also based on comics,
0:40.7	sort of. That would be Legion.
0:43.8	Interesting creator.
0:45.8	And he set out to tell a TV series version of Alien, sort of.
0:53.7	I guess the alien people say this isn't quite officially in the alien universe. It's in its own universe or something. Whatever. I don't care. I've seen almost all the alien movies now. And I watch them and I'm like, wonder how this lines up. And I go to their wiki. And then I'm like, nope, it still doesn't make sense. Okay. And I just move on.
1:11.2	It's like, are there aliens?
1:12.4	Check.
1:13.1	Great.
1:13.5	Okay.
1:14.2	And boy, are there aliens and alien colon earth?
1:17.4	Yes, there are.
1:18.2	Let me introduce this rag tag group of small children who have been reincarnated in adult bodies.
1:26.8	No, maybe.
1:28.4	Or maybe they're synthetic beings that are unlike us.
1:32.5	I don't know.
1:33.3	It would be hard to tell.
1:34.6	Perhaps they are instead child geniuses who are now oligarchs.
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