Noah Hawley knows exactly what you’re thinking. The trailers for Alien: Earth look like they just borrowed the Blade Runner aesthetic, threw in a Xenomorph or two, and called it a day. It’s raining.

The most notable synthetic in Alien: Earth is Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), a white-haired robot tasked with looking after Wendy (a new type of synthetic/human hybrid played by Sydney Chandler). Early on, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alien: Earth is not officially connected to Blade Runner, though both franchises share thematic and visual similarities. The ...

Alien: Earth begins with a bit of onscreen text detailing the universe’s three forms of artificial life: cyborgs, synths, and hybrids. Noticeably absent are Replicants — Blade Runner‘s genetically ...

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