Alien: Earth – The Real Monsters review S1 E8
The Real Monsters reveals what Alien: Earth viewers have realized for some time now in the series. The aliens might be murderous and extremely dangerous, but the real monsters are those who think they’re in control. By the end of what clearly has to just be the first season, all of them have a serious price to pay.
Dame is visiting the children’s gravesites. This is an interesting act from her as she’s seemed more focused on keeping Boy Kavalier happy than the emotional needs of the kid synths. Still, Dame has pretty good instincts and realizes something is behind her. Not just any something — but Wendy’s xenomorph. Just as it sizes her up before the likely jaw thrust action feature, Rashidi, Siberian and their squad save Dame from getting taken out.
For someone used to being fully in control, Real Monsters shows how Boy Kavalier is close to the edge of losing it as he’s seeing that control slip through his fingers. Atom gives BK the bad news that they have zero containment of the xenomorph, which is thinning the ranks of the security squads and Yutani is jamming their satellite feed their satellites have been cut off so they can’t communicate with anyone. On the positive side, all of the synths are in holding, but they could break out at any time. So maybe not as positive?
Atom suggests a retreat, but naturally BK ignores that suggestion despite being nowhere close to his moment of triumph. It’s possible these two are the top of the food chain in terms of the real monsters on Alien: Earth.
The Lost Boys are bickering — like children — over who’s to blame for their current state until Wendy calms them down and helps them focus. “All this time we’ve been afraid of them, but I think it’s time that they were afraid of us.”
Wendy makes a call to her trusty xenomorph, who really needs a name at this point, and starts screwing with the security feed. It sure seems like Wendy’s tech disabling feature was a bonus BK should have created a shut off switch for in case she ever rebelled against him. But that’s just crazy talk. What machine would ever turn on a human?
BK doesn’t even assume the culprit as he’s convinced Yutani is coming to kill him and steal all his toys. Just to make it clear if there was any doubt in terms of BK’s attitude toward the kids. Kirsh tries to Zen-like assist him and tell him “Don’t be mad, be smart.” It’s probably not as catchy as “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” but maybe it’ll catch on?
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Wendy just may be in her teenage years as she’s having fun causing some misery to others. She’s playing around with the monitors like she’s channel surfing and can’t find anything good to watch.
Beyond tampering with the feeds and freaking out Rashidi and Siberian, she’s messing with Dame’s monitor, so she’s stuck watching the old videos of the children before they get moved into the synth bodies.
Dame was at least thinking of Arthur, who she doesn’t know has washed ashore on another side of the island. A crab was poking around his body, but it seemed like maybe the xenomorph had some affection for Arthur — if that’s possible — and scared it off without doing anything else to Arthur’s body. Or maybe it was just trying to track Arthur’s former stowaway?
BK put Joe in the same cell with Morrow. After some internal debate, Wendy decides she is supposed to look after her brother and releases the lock on their cell. Joe says he’s gonna save the ones he can and Morrow tells him to focus on the children because he’s gonna burn this place to the ground.
If there was one weak aspect to Real Monsters, it’s that Morrow doesn’t get to do much of anything with this revenge plan. He immediately confronts Kirsh and they batter and bruise each other to the point they’re both sprawled out on the floor totally exhausted.
BK goes to the Lost Boys and wants to tell them a story, but Wendy opens the cell so he can say it within their cell. BK was tired of his drunk, deadbeat dad and created his first synth — a figurehead adult as he rose up the ranks to become a trillionaire. He drops the pretense of being their friend and tells them they’re just floor models. Beats being real monsters, though.
Nibs brutally beat down BK’s guard. Wendy takes obvious glee in BK’s panic and tells him with a mischievous smile to run. She gives the Lost Boys different tasks and gives Curley, who now wants to be called her real name of Jane, the fun of playing Hide and Seek. But no one is to touch Joe.
Smee and Slightly grab both Kirsh and Morrow, who reveals he didn’t actually hurt Slightly’s mother. Nibs gets to Dame with a creepy smile. Remember on their last encounter, Nibs was vaguely threatening her. Rashidi and Siberian make it to the lab where the D. Plumbicare envelops and kills Siberian.
Atom finds Joe first and leads him to a room they’ve set up for Joe to get taken over by the T. ocellus. Joe seemed way too trusting of one-half of the real monsters but is at least smart enough to hide in the container they’d placed the T. ocellus when he sees it coming his way. Guess Joe is at least GOAT-sized if not the MVP of the season?
Wendy saves Joe from the T. ocellus and shuts down Atom, who in a wild twist was revealed to also be a synth. That explains why Atom would go along with BK’s ill-advised strategies with little push back. Wendy/Marcy tells Joe she doesn’t know what she is as she’s not an adult, child or even Marcy or Wendy.
The xenomorph finds BK, but it eviscerates his soldiers first. Wendy and The Lost Boys don’t kill him (a shame). Instead they put him, Atom, Dame, Kirsh and Morrow in the containment cell in various forms of restraints.
Wendy goads BK further by saying “You’re not Peter Pan. You’ve always been a man, A mean, angry little man who decided to hate everyone just like your daddy.” The kids watch as Wendy’s xenomorph and the Arthur xenomorph, who’s already growing up so fast. crawl along the containment cell.
To wrap up any dangling plot threads in Real Monsters, the Yutani recovery crew is en route, but will they be equally confused about the real monsters on Neverland? At least the T. ocellus believes in recycling as it crawls into Arthur’s body ensuring this isn’t the last we see of either of them.
Nibs asks Wendy what do they do now? “Now? We rule.” Joe looks uneasy at this prospect, but at least he’s alive to be concerned…
Real Monsters ends in a way that suggests not only does Alien: Earth have another season in it, but it could be a feasibly entertaining and enthralling show for many more years to come.
Rating: 9.5 out of 10
Photo Credit: FX
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