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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 6 The Fly

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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 6

The Fly

Aired Sep 9, 2025

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Tensions rise as powerful enemies confront each other, a dangerous plan unfolds and curiosity leads to deadly consequences.

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Noel Murray

New York Magazine/Vulture

Sep 10

4/5

There are times where the conversations aren’t just artlessly blunt but also sloppily wedged in... And yet … those conversations are also entertainingly provocative, and they’re accompanied by some of the scariest and most disgusting scenes.

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Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club

Sep 10

B

The transhumanist dilemmas pile up quickly, with the first half of “The Fly” devoting itself to conversations over the differences between human, machine, and Xenomorph.

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Lyra Hale

Fangirlish

Sep 25

A+

Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 6 “The Fly” is the kind of episode where you throw your hands up into the air while cackling because you knew this was coming.

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Sep 24

9/10

Last week’s episode was a highpoint not just of the series, but the Alien saga in its entirety. It says a lot about the quality of The Fly that it didn’t feel like a complete letdown as the follow-up episode.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

No Es En Serie

Sep 17

4/5

An episode that promises, finally, that the series will deliver more horror starting next week, but if it fails in one rather significant element, it is in the suspension of disbelief that it demands of the viewer. [Full review in Spanish].

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

Sep 17

We finally have confirmation about the mortality of the hybrids in an episode that reinforces the humans are losing control and the island is a powderkeg.

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Synopsis

Tensions rise as powerful enemies confront each other, a dangerous plan unfolds and curiosity leads to deadly consequences.

Director: Ugla Hauksdóttir
Creator: Noah Hawley
Executive Producer: Noah Hawley, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Dana Gonzales, Walter Hill, Joseph E. Iberti
Screenwriter: Noah Hawley
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 9, 2025