John and Derek take a deep dive into Alien Earth Episode 3 "Metamorphosis" another excellent episode, really tense and brilliantly performed. We discuss it all in spoiler filled detail.

Based on Characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett and H.R. Geiger.

Episode Written by Showrunner Noah Hawley and Robert De Laurentis

Episode Directed by Dana Gonzales

Spoiler filled synopsis: At the crash site in New Siam, Nibs begins to question her purpose, asking Curly why the hybrids are all named after Peter Pan characters and why Marcy gets to be Wendy.

Boy Kavalier orders the specimens be brought to Neverland Island for study, despite objections from Kirsh and Dame Sylvia.

Morrow finds Smee and Slightly guarding the Xenomorph eggs and interrogates them, suspicious of their childlike behavior. He downloads the specimen data from the Maginot and plants a device on Slightly before escaping a hatching xenomorph egg and Kirsch.

Meanwhile, Wendy finds her brother and is forced to fight the Xenomorph after it has laid a trap using Hermit as bait. Wendy stops it from killing Hermit with a meat hook, and instead she kills it but sustains serious injuries along with her brother.

Returning to the island, Hermit undergoes surgery and the Sylvias tend to Wendy. Elsewhere, on the loose having escaped into New Siam, Morrow calls Yutani, and insists on retrieving the specimens despite being ordered to return home.

Boy Kavalier inspects the specimens a little too closely until Kirsh removes him for his own protection. While his advisor, Atom Eins, questions Smee and Slightly about their encounter with Morrow.

Later, unknown to anyone else, Morrow contacts Slightly via the device he embedded in him during their first meeting. He convinces Slightly to be his friend.

Meanwhile Curly confronts Kavalier about his favoritism towards Wendy, believing herself to be the best hybrid.

Kirsh, Tootles, and Curly dissect a facehugger and introduce its larvae to Hermit's lung, removed during surgery.

Wendy awakes, seemingly intercepting signals from the Xenomorph eggs which cause her pain. She ultimately collapses in the laboratory containing the eggs.

• Sydney Chandler - Wendy
• Alex Lawther - Hermit/Joe
• Essie Davis - Dame Sylvia
• Samuel Blenkin - Boy Kavalier
• Babou Ceesay - Morrow
• Adarsh Gourav - Slightly
• Erana James - Curly
• Lily Newmark - Nibs
• Jonathan Ajayi - Smee
• David Rysdahl - Arthur Sylvi
• Diêm Camille - Siberian
• Moe Bar-El - Rashidi
• Sandra Yi Sencindiver - Yutani
• Adrian Edmondson - Atom Eins
• Timothy Olyphant - Kirsh

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Date recorded: 22/08/2025

Date published: 23/08/2025

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We continue our chat about the second arc of Season 2 as we discuss The Sandman 205 "The Song Of Orpheus". At the center of this tale we learn all about Orpheus, son of Morpheus, and his epic love poem.

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Episode directed by Jamie Childs

Synopsis: Remorseful about Wanda's death, Dream attends her funeral where Death persuades him to make amends with Delirium. Dream enters Delirium's realm and eventually reconnects with her. Resuming their quest to locate Destruction, they seek advice from Destiny. He tells Dream that only his son, an oracle of Endless blood, can help them. In a flashback to Greece, 1700 BC, the Endless attend the wedding of Orpheus, son of Dream and Calliope. That night, however, Orpheus' wife Eurydice dies from a snake bite. Orpheus begs Dream to help him retrieve Eurydice from the Underworld, but he refuses. With Destruction's help, Orpheus then approaches Death and she reluctantly makes him immortal, allowing him to travel to the Underworld. Once there, Orpheus persuades Hades and Persephone to revive Eurydice, but then fails the test of faith presented to him, leaving Eurydice to stay dead. Against the caution of Calliope, the desperate Orpheus lets himself be torn apart by Maenads, murderous worshippers of Dionysus. He, however, cannot die and begs Dream to kill him, to no avail. In the present, with the words of Destiny that “those who seek Destruction usually find it” a distraught Dream and Delirium depart to find the family oracle Orpheus.

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We continue our discussions with Alien Earth Episode 2 "Mr. October" an action packed episode featuring some brand new terrifying creatures. We chat all about it in spoiler filled details.

Based on Characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett and H.R. Geiger.

Episode Written by Showrunner Noah Hawley

Episode Directed by Dana Gonzales

Spoiler filled synopsis: The head of Prodigy corporation, Boy Kavalier, tells his colleague, Dame Sylvia, that he formed the Hybrid project to compete with artificial intelligence, and has granted Wendy additional abilities as he wishes to create a person smarter than him.

He declines Weyland-Yutani's request to secure the Maginot's proprietary contents, warning any incursion on his territory will be considered a hostile act.

Meanwhile, at the crash site, Hermit is chased by a Xenomorph and separated from his colleagues.

It tracks him to the higher floors of the tower, killing another soldier and massacring an apartment of wealthy residents who refused to evacuate.

He is saved by Morrow, who tasers the Xenomorph and then him. Morrow encases the alien in a membrane and leaves to escape the Prodigy controlled area, but the Xenomorph regains consciousness and escapes after killing numerous other soldiers. Mysteriously it spares Morrow as it leaves.

Arriving in Prodigy City, Hybrids Tootles, Smee, Nibs, and Curly encounter two other dangerous extraterrestrial specimens. A hanging pod that looks like flora but which Kirsch believes to be Fauna, and Octi-eyeball, an eyeball with tentacles. Meanwhile, Wendy locates her brother with Slightly, a fellow Hybrid, but he doesn't recognise her.

Slightly reveals her true identity to a shocked Hermit who was told his sister had died. Hermit realises it's his sister Marcy after Wendy recounts very specific memories from their childhood.

The three encounter several Xenomorph eggs and are ordered by Kirsh to contain them until a HazMat team arrives. But they are tracked by a Xenomorph who falls through a hole in the ship with Hermit. Wendy chases after the two, as Slightly stays behind to “guard the omelette”.

• Sydney Chandler - Wendy
• Alex Lawther - Hermit/Joe
• Essie Davis - Dame Sylvia
• Samuel Blenkin - Boy Kavalier
• Babou Ceesay - Morrow
• Adarsh Gourav - Slightly
• Erana James - Curly
• Lily Newmark - Nibs
• Jonathan Ajayi - Smee
• David Rysdahl - Arthur Sylvi
• Diêm Camille - Siberian
• Moe Bar-El - Rashidi
• Adrian Edmondson - Atom Eins
• Timothy Olyphant - Kirsh

Thank you so much for listening to our Alien Earth Podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast through our website TV Podcast Industries we'll be back next week with our chat all about Alien Earth episode 3. We hope you'll join us.

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Date recorded: 14/08/2025

Date published: 15/08/2025

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