FX’s Alien: Earth closed out its season with a finale that lived up to its title, “The Real Monsters.” The episode delivered tense showdowns, shocking reveals, and one final power shift that leaves the island, and the future of the series, hanging in fascinating uncertainty. Here's my recap and review.
Revolution on Prodigy
The finale picks up right where we left off. The hybrids are imprisoned in one cell, while Joe and Morrow find themselves locked in another. Wendy uses her abilities to disrupt the system and secretly free Joe and Morrow, though her lingering resentment over Joe’s decision to shoot Nibs makes the moment all the more layered.
Morrow finally gets his long-awaited showdown with Krish, and the fight doesn’t disappoint — brutal, visceral, and personal. Morrow breaks Krish’s back, but not before Krish nearly strangles him unconscious. It’s a hard-earned victory, but the moment is cut short when Smee and Slightly intervene.
Elsewhere, Nibs captures Dame, while Kavailer reveals a dark origin story of his own: he built a synthetic to kill his abusive father, strongly implied to be Atom. Atom himself lures Joe into the Ocellus chamber, locking him inside, only for Wendy to rescue him in a spectacular confrontation where she seizes control of Atom’s motor functions. Meanwhile, the Ocellus escapes and bonds with Arthur’s corpse, in true Alien fashion, a grotesque birth of something new.
“Now, We Rule”
By the time Yutani’s forces arrive on the island, Wendy has made her move. She and her allies place Kavailer, Dame, Krish, and Morrow into a prison cell alongside the Xenomorphs. Her final words, chilling and triumphant: “Now, we rule.”
Final Verdict
“The Real Monsters” asked a question central to the Alien mythology: what makes something monstrous, biology, choice, or survival? The finale left us with no easy answers, only blurred lines.
The highlight was without question the long-teased Morrow vs. Krish fight, which gave us the brutal payoff fans were waiting for. Kavailer’s villainous backstory also hit the right notes, the kind of theatrical reveal that feels right at home in this universe. Wendy’s growing power, and moral ambiguity, sets her up as a fascinating pivot point for the next season.
If there’s one critique, it’s that certain story threads (like Wendy’s shifting motivations and her eerie Xenomorph connection) could have used more buildup before the final moments. Still, the finale stuck the landing by mixing action, horror, and moral complexity.
Overall, Alien: Earth Season 1 closed with an intense, thought-provoking hour that cements its place as a worthy expansion of the franchise. Overall, a chilling, brutal, and thematically rich finale that leaves us eager for more I give the season finale an 8.5/10.
What did you think of the finale? Who do you think the “real monsters” are the Xenomorphs, the hybrids, or humanity itself?
Alien: Earth is streaming on Hulu.
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