Alien: Earth Season 1 episode 8 (finale) review — The Real Monsters — A new power dynamic and the eye that claims the dead

Alien: Earth closes its first season with “The Real Monsters,” an episode that turns the entire board upside down. The logline promised “a new power dynamic emerges,” and that’s exactly what happens.

What began as a story of containment and survival ends as an origin tale of dominion, where hybrids step into the role of rulers and Wendy delivers the chilling proclamation:

“Now, we rule.”

The finale doesn’t merely tie together the arcs of the season. It reframes the series as a meditation on creation, power, and monstrosity. If the Alien franchise has always asked what makes a monster, the creature, the corporation, or the human choices behind them, then Alien: Earth sharpens the question into a scalpel.

Hybrids as heirs of the apocalypse

The hybrids, first seen as fragile children caught between human and synthetic, reveal themselves as inheritors of a new world order. Wendy’s declaration is not a bluff but a seismic shift. For all of Boy Kavalier’s manipulation, the children he tried to weaponize now eclipse their creators.

It is a Frankenstein’s Monster moment: the line between master and creation dissolves, and what rises is more unsettling than either side alone. In this sense, Alien: Earth continues the franchise’s fascination with blurred borders between innocence and monstrosity.

The parasite with the watching eye

As the hybrids rise, the most grotesque presence slithers in: the parasitic eye creature that nestles into Arthur’s corpse. Unlike the xenomorph, driven by instinctual predation, the eye parasite is calculating, manipulative, almost mocking.

It represents intelligence unshackled from morality, a predator that doesn’t consume bodies; it rewrites the meaning of flesh itself. In its single, unblinking gaze lies the possibility that the hybrids’ triumph is not secure at all, but already shadowed by another predator.

Who are the real monsters?

The finale leans into the core question that has defined Alien from the start: who, truly, are the real monsters? Wendy herself voices the paradox. The aliens are at least honest in their hunger, while humans and their hybrids weave cruelty behind ideology and experiments.

The show refuses to give a comforting answer. The corporation that sought control, the children who take power, and the alien parasite with its endless hunger, all of them qualify, depending on where the viewer chooses to look.

A finale that stands complete

“The Real Monsters” doesn’t dangle for validation. Even without a continuation, the inversion of power functions as a complete ending. The new rulers are established, the old powers subdued, and the atmosphere reshaped. What remains is a world scarred, reordered, and terrifyingly alive with possibility.

Rather than leaving viewers suspended, the finale gives the season its own sense of closure. It acknowledges that the questions are bigger than the answers, but that is the essence of Alien: Earth. The series thrives on unsettling truths, and by ending with a clear inversion of power, it proves that horror can conclude not with resolution but with transformation.

Still, we know this is an ambitious and costly production, and it has been well received, so all that is left for now is to hope the story continues. Until renewal is confirmed, we wait with the uneasy thrill of not knowing what new horrors will emerge next.

Alien: Earth and the legacy of the franchise

What makes Alien: Earth stand out is how it honors the DNA of the franchise while daring to mutate it. The films built their terror on the perfect organism and on the corporate hubris that tried to exploit it.

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This instalment of the franchise takes those foundations and pushes them further, showing that monstrosity evolves alongside ambition. By the time Wendy claims power, the show has not only asked who the monsters are but also suggested that new forms of horror will always emerge from the ruins of control.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 haunted eyes staring from the abyss of creation.

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