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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 3 Metamorphosis

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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 3

Metamorphosis

Aired Aug 19, 2025

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The team returns home with unexpected cargo; an unsettling experiment occurs, and a new talent is discovered.

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Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club

Aug 20

B+

It’s a case study in the contrasts between the wills of corporate overlords and the well-intentioned scientists and synthetics who make their dreams a reality.

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Noel Murray

New York Magazine/Vulture

Aug 20

4/5

This whole concluding sequence is meant to look and sound like some weirdo mad scientist stuff... It’s supposed to penetrate our subconscious and creep us the hell out.

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Lyra Hale

Fangirlish

Sep 25

A

I don’t feel like Alien: Earth is talking down to me. Instead it feels like Alien: Earth is trusting me, especially in “Metamorphosis.”

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Sep 3

7.5/10

Metamorphosis has some frustrating elements playing out largely just to keep the show’s slow burn going as it relates to certain subplots, but there’s enough interesting angles to keep it an intriguing sci-fi mystery.

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

Sep 3

This episode answers some of the lingering questions after the one-two punch of the premiere, but also manages to raise several more

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Clint Cage

IGN Movies

Aug 27

8/10

The aptly titled “Metamorphosis” is the best kind of transitional chapter, more quietly wrapping up threads introduced by the bigger, louder first episodes.

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Synopsis

The team returns home with unexpected cargo; an unsettling experiment occurs, and a new talent is discovered.

Director: Dana Gonzales
Creator: Noah Hawley
Executive Producer: Noah Hawley, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Dana Gonzales, Walter Hill, Joseph E. Iberti
Screenwriter: Noah Hawley
Network: FX
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Aug 19, 2025