Alien: Earth at a glance:
- Season 2 has been confirmed by FX
- Noah Hawley returns as showrunner
- Some cast members won’t return for the second series
Although Alien: Earth is one of FX’s flagship series, the production’s future was uncertain for quite some time. However, fans of the show can breathe a sigh of relief: the Xenomorph will be hunting on Earth for at least one more season.
In 1979, along with Ellen Ripley and the other passengers of the Nostromo, viewers set off into deep space to meet the deadly Xenomorph. More than 30 years after the release of Ridley Scott’s Alien, FX brought the predatory creature – and the audience – back to home turf.
Noah Hawley, best known as the creator of the Fargo and Legion TV shows, is creator, showrunner and director. Ridley Scott, who directed the first Alien movie in 1979, is attached to the series as an executive producer. However, this isn’t the only recent project from the Alien universe with Scott’s involvement – his latest film in the series, Alien: Romulus , hit theatres in August 2024.
Alien: Earth (alongside Alien: Romulus) was designed as a multi-season story, expanding the universe and attracting a new generation of viewers. If you want to know how we rated the series, read our review.
When could Alien: Earth season 2 be released?
Noah Hawley’s series was announced in 2020. However, it took quite a lot of time to move forward with production. Pre-production for the show began in Thailand in 2023, but was halted in August due to the Hollywood strikes. Filming resumed the following year and wrapped in July 2024. Season 1 then premiered on 12 August 2025.
However, this time there shouldn’t be a four-year gap between the announcement and filming beginning. According to Collider , work on set will kick off in London in 2026, which gives the hope that the second instalment of Alien: Earth will debut on Hulu and Disney+ as early as 2027.
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When could Alien: Earth season 2 take place?
The initial reports on season 1 suggested that the action would take place even before Prometheus. Later, it was rumoured that Alien: Earth was to be set in the year 2120, two years before the events of the first-released movie of the franchise: Alien.
Afterwards, Noah Hawley explained that the series takes place around the same time as James Cameron’s Aliens , the second film in the Xenomorph franchise ( via Collider ):
I think we exist somewhere around Aliens, around the James Cameron story. I haven’t had to get crazy specific with it, but the events of the first film are referenced in the show at some point. So, I think it’s somewhere around the events of the second film, either before or just after.
Ultimately, it turned out that the series is indeed set in 2120. It means that Xenomorphs arrived on Earth before encountering the crew of the Nostromo. That conclusion makes the Alien universe extremely messy and unclear.
We hope that in season 2, Hawley will explain how the events of Alien: Earth tie in with the films from the series.
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However, it’s quite likely that this won’t happen. As Noah Hawley said (via CNN ):
We haven’t literally calendared it out. [The decision to set series’ action on Earth opened up] a grey area that we can play in. It was a gift to get a franchise this big with very little mythology to it.
What could the plot of Alien: Earth season 2 be about?
Spoiler for season 1 below.
The events of the first season unfolded in a way that everyone could have predicted – except, apparently, the brilliant trillionaire, Boy Kavalier , who constantly made the wrong decisions.
Not only did the monsters gathered in the laboratory escape, but so did the hybrid children. Over the course of eight episodes, Wendy and her friends became radicalised enough to intend to take over the world – or at least that’s how we can interpret Smee’s words to the damaged android Kirsh: “You’re time is done. It’s our time now”.
For now, the creators haven’t announced an official plot description for season 2. However, there are a few questions that should be answered in the next instalment of the series.
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1. What happened to Boy Kavalier and the other adults?
In the season finale, Wendy and the other hybrid children turned against their creators. Boy Kavalier, Morrow, Dame Sylvia, Kirsh, and Atom Eins were locked in a cell at the Prodigy facility, while Wendy summoned an adult Xenomorph and a newborn Chestburster. In the final scene, the girl gives a command to the monster in its own language and then says to the others: “Now we rule.”
We don’t know what order Wendy gave the Xenomorph – whether it’s to kill or only guard the prisoners. It’s rather unlikely that the creators of the series would remove all the adult characters from the plot. Surely at least some of them will survive to see season 2.
2. Will Yutani’s attack succeed?
Unexpected help may come from the forces of the Yutani corporation, which storm Prodigy island to recover the extraterrestrial specimens taken by Boy Kavalier. The Xenomorph has already killed some of the troops, but it’s possible that reinforcements will arrive. Yutani seemed ready for anything to regain the prize of decades of searching in deep space.
3. What does the eyeball octopus want?
Catching the monsters will certainly not be easy – there’s not only a breeding Xenomorph on the loose, but also an eyeball octopus. It appears that the creature, composed of tentacles and an eye, is the most dangerous of the monsters captured by Yutani. The alien life form can attack a person or animal, tear out the eye and take over the host’s nervous system, turning the person into a kind of zombie.
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4. What will Wendy and the Lost Boys do next?
With their synthetic bodies, the hybrid children seem almost invincible, especially when they have a Xenomorph on their side. But what’s Wendy’s goal? Does she want to take control of Prodigy Island? Does she want to escape with her brother and the Lost Boys? Or her plans are bigger than that – is it possible that the hybrids wish to take over the world?
5. Who is Wendy and Joe’s mother?
The siblings’ father appeared in a flashback sequence, but we never saw Wendy or Joe’s mother. The characters don’t talk about her – she seems to have disappeared from their lives early, but the lack of information about her seems significant. Is her character crucial to the plot? Is it possible that Wendy and Joe’s mother is someone we know from the movies?
6. Where does Wendy’s unusual bond with the Xenomorph come from?
The biggest surprise of the series – and a significant change for the universe – is establishing contact with a Xenomorph. Wendy, thanks to her synthetic body, discovered that she could communicate with the monster and even give it commands. The second season should definitely explore how and why this connection exists.
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Who is in the cast of Alien: Earth season 2?
In the series, most of the characters are hybrids of humans and androids. As part of the Phoenix Program, the minds of severely ill children were transplanted into synthetic bodies, creating a new species.
In season 2, we expect the following characters to return:
- Sydney Chandler as Wendy, the first hybrid child
- Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, a hybrid boy who views Wendy as an older sister
- Lily Newmark as Nibs, the youngest of all hybrids
- Jonathan Ayaji as Smee, a hybrid with a positive, slightly naive approach to the world
- Erana James as Curly, who used to be a child with a short life expectancy
- Alex Lawther – CJ AKA Hermit, Wendy’s brother who, unlike her, grew up in a human body
- Samuel Blenkin – Boy Kavalier, a kid genius, and the powerful CEO of the Prodigy Corporation
- Timothy Olyphant – Kirsh, a synthetic, and Wendy’s mentor
- Adrian Edmondson – Atom Eins, Boy Kavalier’s trusted man
- Essie Davis – Dame Silvia, a brilliant geneticist employed at the Prodigy Corporation
- Babou Ceesay – Morrow, a Yutani cyborg
- Sandra Yi Sencindiver – Yutani, a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation
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Sadly, in the first season, Tootles, played by Kit Young , was killed by fly-like creatures. However, considering that his body was synthetic and his consciousness was stored on a hard drive, Tootles may return. Whether he’ll be in the same body or in a new one remains to be seen.
David Rysdahl’s Arthur Silvia should also be back… at least, in some form. In season 1, the scientist was killed by a Chestburster, but the eyeball octopus later took over his body. In season 2, Arthur could return as a zombie-like creature.
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Author: Weronika de Oliveira, Entertainment Writer, Tech Advisor
Weronika is an Entertainment Writer at Tech Advisor, where she covers topics related to TV shows, streaming, and movies. With an MA degree in Film Studies, her areas of expertise range from classical and postmodern cinema to contemporary films, series, and pop culture.
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