FX & Hulu still haven’t made a judgment call, one way or another, as to whether they will renew “Alien: Earth” for a second season.
The series scored strongly with critics, but has proven a bit more divisive with the fanbase – some loving it, some hating it. Certain elements and performances were highly praised, others not as much – such as the very obvious ‘guy in a suit’ Xenomorph or the fairly open ending.
Nonetheless, creator Noah Hawley did succeed at some rich world-building to flesh out a future time where five megacorporations run the Earth. Speaking with Empire about the show’s finale and potential future seasons, Hawley says he hopes to be able to move beyond the island and explore more of the planet in the next season:
“I’m interested in exploring the corporate politics of it. As we’ve seen, there’s an irresistible gravitational pull toward monopoly that corporations and billionaires have. There’s a bit of Game of Thrones to the corporate world that feels interesting to me. I do think this story of these children’s autonomy continues to be the heart of the show, but Alien is always about levels of containment.
The island is a level of containment, and what happens when you expand past that level? Ultimately, the show is called Alien: Earth. I know that, given the canon, I can’t blow up the Earth, but I do think that containment is going to be very hard to maintain.
Because it’s a story about humanity trapped between nature that’s trying to kill us and the technology we’ve created that also seems to be trying to kill us, that feels a lot like the world that I live in, and so I feel like there’s a lot there to really grapple with.”
Most of the first season focused on the Asia/Oceania-based Prodigy and the Americas-based Weyland-Yutani. The other three megacorps – the Russia-based Lynch, the Africa/Middle East-based Dynamic and the EU-based Threshold – were barely touched upon in the series.
