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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 8 The Real Monsters

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Alien: Earth – Season 1, Episode 8

The Real Monsters

Aired Sep 23, 2025

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Estranged siblings; a new power dynamic emerges; Weyland-Yutani engages in a ground war with Prodigy, whose forces have dwindled in manpower.

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Noel Murray

New York Magazine/Vulture

Sep 24

3/5

Nearly everything that worked well in the first half of season one has remained strong in the second half.

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Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club

Sep 24

C+

It’s a world where simply knowing you have shelter is worth hunting a Xenomorph. Alien has never looked so contemporary.

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Oct 2

9.5/10

The aliens might be murderous and extremely dangerous, but the real monsters are those who think they’re in control. By the end of what clearly has to just be the first season, all of them have a serious price to pay.

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

Sep 25

Marcy (formerly Wendy) establishes a new world order as the season wraps up most of its lingering storylines and lays the groundwork for future seasons to come. Because there had better be another season Disney/FX!

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Lyra Hale

Fangirlish

Sep 25

A+

We have lived in such a TV wasteland for the last couple years, that I don’t know if I’ve been satisfied with a season finale in the way I was after watching Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 8 “The Real Monsters.”

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Alan French

FandomWire

Sep 25

10/10

The best episode of the season gives us great Xenomorph action, an excellent performance from Sydney Chandler, and all the philosophy we'd expect from the Alien franchise.

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Synopsis

Estranged siblings; a new power dynamic emerges; Weyland-Yutani engages in a ground war with Prodigy, whose forces have dwindled in manpower.

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, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 23, 2025