Earth,' premiered Aug. 12, 2025, and premieres new episodes weekly. Here's everything to know about when 'Alien: Earth' episodes are released and how many episodes there are.

Earth" Episodes 1-2. Of all the big, ambitious swings that "Alien: Earth" takes, none are riskier than the parallels that showrunner Noah Hawley chooses to draw between his new sci-fi series and "Peter Pan.

Hybrid beings like Wendy are a new species of humanoids in Alien: Earth. They are developed by one of the five ruling companies on Earth, called Prodigy, which is owned and operated by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), the youngest trillionaire in human history.

Who and What are Dame and Arthur Sylvia?: Dame Sylvia and Arthur Sylvia are humans and scientists helping Boy Kavalier create the hybrids. Arthur seems to be more invested in the technical aspect of the project, while Dame is something of a therapist and mother figure to the kids. They are also married to each other.

Hawley pulls a similar trick to Ridley Scott, who many don’t know hid his own blink-and-you’d-miss-it cameo in the original Alien. He voiced the chestbursting alien for that key scene. Decades later, Noah Hawley appears in a flashback sequence, very briefly, playing the father of lead characters Wendy and Joe.

Much like the film franchise that spawned it, not all the horror in Alien: Earth will involve aliens, it seems. However, if you’ve seen the first two episodes, you know there’s also plenty of oozy extraterrestrial terror on the show too. Have you checked it out yet?

Earth” ends with a five-star, no-notes needle drop (or choice of a pre-existing song). A tone of dread has been set throughout the episode, in which we learn that corporations, technology, and military rule in this future world.

For Hawley, overlaying Peter Pan onto Alien: Earth ‘s science fiction made sense because of the idea of trapping children’s minds in immortal bodies that were created, and ruled over, by a literal boy genius. Moreover, because Barrie’s work isn’t quite as anodyne and sweet as Disney’s animated film.

Fans were promised a dark, cerebral extension of the Alien universe in Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, which would include corporate fraud, xenomorph terror, and challenging philosophical issues about syn