'Alien: Earth' Episode 5 Deep Dive. Plus: Noah Hawley and Babou Ceesay!

House of R

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Mal, Jo, and Rob come together to dive deep into Episode 5 of ‘Alien: Earth’! First, they catch up on how Jo is liking the season so far. Then, they talk about the decision to put a mini ‘Alien’ movie inside the show, the revelations about Morrow’s history, and more. Later, Mal and Jo are joined by showrunner Noah Hawley and the actor who plays Morrow, Babou Ceesay, to talk all about this intense episode! (00:00) Intro(09:07) Jo’s Episode 1-4 Takes(34:10) A Mini ‘Alien’ Movie in our TV Show!(59:23) Morrow’s History(01:06:48) The Boy/Petrovich Reveal(01:08:20) Please Pick the Worst Way to Die(01:29:07) Humans: We Have Some Notes(01:33:43) Aliens: We Stand in Awe(01:41:24) Noah Hawley and Babou Ceesay Hosts: Mallory Rubin, Joanna Robinson, and Rob MahoneyGuests: Noah Hawley and Babou CeesayProducers: Carlos Chiriboga and John RichterSocial: Jomi AdeniranAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:12.9	And welcome to House of our, a ringerverse podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:18.0	I'm Mallory Rubin.
0:19.7	Joining me today to let me know that two of the clam things got out,
0:24.8	you know, the octopus with the long fingers, it's probably going to be fine. It's Joanna Robinson
0:31.3	and Rob Mahoney. It's a team up. Oh, my God. Everyone's here to be murdered systematically on a spaceship.
0:42.5	Folks, I've missed you.
0:44.4	I've been gone so happy back in this cousin marrying shithole valley.
0:51.7	You fuck cows.
0:53.7	I've got some notes from Boy Cavalier on how he recruits talent. The pitch is not great. Let's be honest with you. That's a hang up from me right there. And yet it worked. So maybe we have notes for Petrovich at the end of the day. Joanna, darling, we missed you terribly. It is wonderful to emerge from our cryopods together to discuss Alien Earth episode five. What an episode to reunite for. Yeah. Big one. We've got a lot of fun stuff to get to today. The three of us are going to break down episode five in space. No one. Da, da, da, that's what it's called. Great stuff. I love it.
1:28.4	You know,
1:28.7	that was one of the first things
1:29.7	that Noah Holly wrote down.
1:31.3	Oh,
1:31.5	yeah.
1:31.6	I'm going to call an episode in space.
1:34.0	No one dot, dot, dot.
1:35.6	And I can't fucking wait.
1:37.5	No one can hear you fucking Bronsky in a random corner of the...
1:42.1	Turns out they can, unfortunately.
1:43.9	Everyone has seen the talk.
1:45.3	Cremates are filming you.
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