Read this review to see if the Alien: Earth episode “Mr. October” is worth watching.
About Alien: Earth
- Season 1, Episode 2: “Mr. October”
- Directed by Dana Gonzales
- Written by Noah Hawley
- Synopsis: Tensions rise between rival corporations, a reunion takes place, and a secret is revealed.
- Airdate: August 12, 2025
- Starring: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, David Rysdahl, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Kit Young, and Amir Boutrous
If you want to avoid spoilers for this episode, skip to the overall section at the end.
Warning: Spoilers for Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 2 “Mr. October”
Recap Alien: Earth (2025): S1E02 – “Mr. October”
Episode two follows medic Joe and his team assessing Earth’s damage from a Weyland-Yutani spaceship crash, encountering the Xenomorph eyeball with tentacles. Joe (Alex Lawther) and his crew find a dead woman and a man with a surgically cut stomach. He had some kind of foreign bodies lining his GI tract,” he says. Alien fans know what that means. “What do you mean foreign?” one of Joe’s crew members asks. Of course, he responds, “Alien.”
The search-and-rescue team, fearing the surgery death room, prepares to discuss abandoning the rescue. “Let forensics, Agatha Christie this s–t,” she jokes. They navigate through a spaceship, jumping across a demolished staircase. Joe, the last to jump, nearly falls to his death when the monster emerges. He hides in an elevator, but when he tries to call for help is met with static on the other end.
Meanwhile, Boy Kavalier, the trillionaire on Neverland Research Island, is celebrating his AI achievement, fearing the inevitable rise of smarter machines, highlighting the intelligence race and the potential for humanity to explode. The strategy involves defeating the robots before they wipe us out, but what about the future of humanity? The robot children have their consciousnesses transferred into an AI brain, with real memories. But they’re as human as a Westworld theme park attraction.
Dame Silvia, a key analyst in Prodigy’s secret AI-child program, warns Kavalier that the experiment womt make humanity immortal. Only consumers are immortal. But Kavalier focuses on achieving his goal of talking to someone smarter than himself by putting sick children’s minds into robots’ bodies.
Blenkin perfectly plays a Zuckerberg-like, pretentious, and punch-worthy tech genius. Just then gets a business call with Weyland-Yutani’s CEO. The two engage in passive-aggressive banter as the CEO tries to get access to the ship lodged in the rival’s building, while the other decides he wants whoever is in the ship.
Creator Noah Hawley uses the time in the elevator to explore Joe’s past. Like his attempt to leave Earth, he requested a void on his contract to finish medical school on Mars. Wendy hacks the robot’s network and uses a quote from their favorite childhood movie, Ice Age: Continental Drift, to rewrite the code and trap Joe on Earth. Wendy aims to meet Joe one day, so he hacks the code to deny his leave.
Wendy plans to take the other Lost Boys on a search-and-rescue mission on the ship. Kirsch goes along to collect specimens and act as a corporate spy for her secret mission.
The sentient eyeball with octopus tentacles is the coolest monster in Alien: Earth, crawling out of a cat’s cranium and attacking Nibs before being trapped under a bucket.
Back at the party, Joe meets the pompous guy who insists on his friendship again as he’s running for his life from the Xenomorph. The medic is nearly eaten by the alien. That’s when the Weyland-Yutani officer Morrow shows up and stuns the alien. Joe starts to thank him, but the Synth stuns Joe, too. He wraps up the alien with a web gun. If only it were that easy. It breaks out of the webbing, of course, and attacks someone else after Morrow warns him. Hawley teases an intriguing development: the Xenomorph doesn’t attack the Weyland-Yutani guy because he’s not human, suggesting our human-AI hybrid children may have a leg up in the fight.
Meanwhile, Wendy finally reaches Joe and secretly reunites with her brother. He has no idea who she is, let alone that she’s a robot. Joe finds a rare Reggie Jackson–signed baseball from the 1977 World Series in the lavish apartment. It’s an interesting wrinkle for Joe; he’s a guy who knows baseball facts from over 120 years ago in his time. He reminisces about simpler times with his late father, not knowing that his sister has just appeared. Then he joins them on their quest to find the alien eggs.
Slightly (Adarsh Gourav) reveals the secrets of her mysterious past to Joe. “When I was sick, the boy genius came to visit me, and he told Daddy that he could help me. But I had to go away,” she eventually tells Joe. “So they took me to live with Kirsh and Dame Silvia.” Joe struggles with the knowledge that his sister was taken by strangers and experimented on. He quizzes Wendy with a bunch of facts about the two know and is forced to accept the truth.
Joe is rescued by Wendy as the Xenomorph grabs him, falling off a broken apartment building. Tool’s “Stinkfist” serves as a fitting ending to this episode of Alien: Earth.
Overall: Watch Alien: Earth (2025): S1E02 – “Mr. October”
The second episode of Alien: Earth adds intensity to the franchise’s horror roots, with a visceral xenomorph “slaughter” and raw vulnerability from Sydney Chandler’s Wendy. The post-apocalyptic Earth setting is dreadful, with a haunting score and tight cinematography. The AI and corporate threads blend with the horror, hinting at deeper stakes.
The character arc revolves around Wendy and her brother Joe, but the dynamic between them feels artificial. Some of the acting, like Boy Kavalier and Wendy, is brilliant. But some characters lack motivation. The series relies heavily on callbacks and visual cues from the past to create a sense of familiarity. It’s not perfect, but it’s a fun watch.
I’m giving this episode 4.5 out of 5 stars because it’s a wonderful 
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