Although Alien: Earth is currently one of Disney’s flagship series, it still hasn’t been renewed for a second season. While many Alien: Earth reviews are glowing, not everyone is happy with the series. And it’s no surprise, given that the first show in the history of the universe marginalised the Xenomorph and disrupted the franchise timeline.
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 the 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 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. We will likely find out in the coming weeks whether the series has been renewed. While waiting for Disney’s decision, we’ve gathered all the information about a potential second season of Alien: Earth.
If you want to know our opinion about the series, here’s the review.
Will there be an Alien: Earth season 2?
There has been no official announcement from Hulu or Disney+ at the time of writing, but showrunner Noah Hawley gave the following quote to Polygon:
“I’m pretty confident, given the show’s success, that we’ll get to make more.”
That said, the same article had him stating if the worst happened, he’d be happy to have “the audience has to finish this story”. Hopefully, it won’t come to that.
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.
If Disney decides to renew it for a second season, there hopefully shouldn’t be a four-year gap between the announcement and filming beginning. So, if we get some news before the end of this year, based on the turnaround for season 1, we predict that the second instalment of Alien: Earth could 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 is set in the year 2120, two years before the events of the first-released movie of the franchise: Alien.
Afterwards, Noah Hawley, the showrunner, explained that the series takes place around James Cameron’s Aliens, the second film created 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 the Xenomorph arrived on Earth before encountering the crew of the Nostromo. That conclusion makes the Alien universe extremely messy and unclear.
We hope that if it returns for 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 will not 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 so radicalised that they clearly 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 people, “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 in season 2, at least some of them will somehow manage to survive.
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 over 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 effects 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.
This is what happened to Arthur, Sylvia’s husband. After a Chestburster killed him, Yutani’s soldiers abandoned his body on the beach. An octopus found the corpse and, in a sense, resurrected Arthur – the question is, why? Does an intelligent cosmic parasite want to get out of Earth, or does it intend to settle there, like the similar creatures seen in Amazon’s Invincible?
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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 mom?
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 him 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.
If the show is renewed, we’d expect the following characters to return:
- Sydney Chandler as Wendy, the first hybrid kid,
- 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 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, contrary to 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’s 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 a previous 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. Therefore, in season 2, Arthur could return as a zombie-like creature.
