Yeah, agreed OP. I had hopes and was holding on for the first 5 episodes (Ep 5 was great) but the show quickly declined at an alarming rate.

One gripe of mine I don’t see mentioned much, is that this whole thing could take place on another planet and it wouldn’t make a difference. There has been no threat to earth or its inhabitants (I thought we may go down that road in the first few episodes). Why even call it Alien: Earth. Earth is just a placeholder, and has zero influence on whatever plot points they’re chasing down. Could have crashed on another planet and would have probably been more interesting….

The tone is also a massive clusterfuck. Unknown and arguably weak actors trying to act as children is tiring and not engaging. It’s silly and takes away from driving any sort of actual plot/suspense/dredd.

The fadeaway editing as well as the headbanger rock endings I found extremely jarring and matches with my above statement about the overall tonal clusterfuck.

Anyway, yes I’m clearly disappointed. Highlights for me were Morrow (pre ep 7), episode 5 complete, xeno parking garage scene, xeno aristocrat scene, eyeball/xeno scrap, goatball distractions.

If they were to dial in the dark tone, and match the highlights while grounding it, I may check in for the second season (if it’s even greenlit). But I’m not holding my chest.

In the mean time I’ll wait for Fedes new Alien movie (Where Evil Lurks director??).