Neverland

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Alien: Earth" was my most anticipated show of 2025. I do not watch TV series mostly in general due to time restrictions, but couldn't resist to watch a first series even within my favorite franchise ever - "Alien". I'm a massive fan of the universe - own majority of the films on 4K disks, played "Isolation" many times and etc. - "Aliens" is my favorite film of all time. So i was all in for "Alien: Earth".

The first episode called "Neverland" was everything i hoped for a new Alien stuff, from creators of brilliant if sometimes uneven series "Fargo". I highly enjoyed this episode. No spoilers - but will say that it is set in a new location for the franchise - Earth. I really enjoyed the set up, the not by a book characters, script that is clearly was written not by AI. It is different from what we have seen in "Aliens" before, thanks to a fresh perspective that creator brought here. And yet the opening scene left me breathless with how they recreated opening of first film.

Overall, first episode was a breath of fresh air considering long running Alien franchise, yet it felt somehow familiar - and in the best way possible. Great opening of hopefully great series.

This time, it's on Earth.

There are so many references to the past. If you're a fan of the first two masterpieces and some of the later films, you'll enjoy the efforts.

I was a little concerned; you never know quite how shows like this will play out, but I thought it was a banging start. I thoroughly enjoyed this series opener, with plenty of tension, excitement, and some fine storytelling.

There is so much potential here. They've built up a fascinating future-a world of synths and cyborgs. We have the interest of what's really going on with the children. Are they simply being saved, or is there something more malevolent at play? Plus, we have the introduction of the alien threat.

We know what's coming; we just don't quite know when. My issue is: how on Earth (no pun intended) did no warning or alert get through? It made no sense, no radars, no alarms, no shouts of 'incoming ship!?' A little bit sloppy.

There are plenty of well-known faces from The States and the UK, with fine performances all around. Great set designs; they really took us back to the first movie, the visuals in general were terrific.

Great start, and yes it's very Disney.

9/10.

The beginning of this episode is such a nice fan service: A lot of references to the first Alien movie - i.e. Set design (dispite the prequels Alien Prometheus (2012) and Alien Covenant (2017) with their more advanced technology than Alien (1979) this show does it like Alien Romulus (2024) and keeps the retro look known from Alien (1979)), the awakening of the crew and their 'breakfast scene', Mother.

New fresh ideas, the corporation Prodigy vs Weyland-Yutani, Cyborgs, Synths and Hybrids. Some references to 'Blade Runner' (Timothy Olyphant resembles to Rudger Hauer) and 'Battle Angel Alita' (the character Wendy has to learn who or what she is).

Noah Hawley - creator, producer, screenwriter and director of this first episode, known i.e. The tv shows 'Fargo' and the best Marvel show 'Legion', promises great storytelling, well written characters, suspense, mystery and entertainment.

Great look and sound design, cool creature design, interesting world building, good sfx.

This first episode is a great start and gets you hooked.

As an introductory episode, I think it's spectacular. I love that Ridley Scott is continuing his legacy within this series, and that Disney has the budget to amend his desires for it xD. Jokes aside, I am extremely excited for this show as a whole, the cast, acting, VFX, CGI, budget, and authenticity to the Alien franchise all seems on track and I'm all for it! Excited to see where this goes, all in all, episode 1, banger! Enjoy and goodluck!

I'm sorry to say this, because I had high expectations, but the first episode feels like it was written and directed by kids.

Maybe it's a show for kids?

The initial and subsequent infodumps are over the top, and the information could have been spread throughout the episode to avoid soporific lengthiness.

The characters lack bite, except for Wendy, who redeems herself a bit in the finale. Disappointed.