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Alien: Earth’s fourth episode, “Observation,” is another aptly titled entry for the franchise’s first foray into the small screen. Showrunner Noah Hawley and friends pump the brakes on the ...

In humanity’s time with the xenomorphs of the Alien franchise, we’ve usually underestimated them, then run from them, two reactions that come before becoming genetic hosts for them. Everything we ...

Alien: Earth Episode 4, Observation, answers the headline in its last minutes: Wendy forges first contact, not by killing but by calming. In Prodigy’s lab, an embryonic xenomorph tears free from the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Close watchers of FX‘s Alien: Earth probably figured out weeks ago that hybrid heroine Wendy (Sydney Chandler) shares some sort of mysterious affinity with the Xenomorph ...

After three episodes set (mostly) on the wreck of the Maginot, Alien: Earth slowed things down a bit back on Neverland, the home of the Prodigy corporation, for this week’s fourth episode. While there ...

Though episode four, “Observation,” picks up right where episode three left off with hybrid Wendy’s newly discovered xenomorph-hearing (more on that below), the episode is better framed by its two big ...

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Observation,” now streaming on Hulu. After Wendy and her brother Joe spent most of last week’s installment out of action, both are ...

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 4. So far on Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley has done a fantastic job of taking a half-century-old franchise in a new direction.

The first step in the scientific method—observation—basically amounts to witnessing a phenomena and asking questions about how the hell it's happening. So it's oddly fitting that "Observation," the ...