It's a strictly by the book, predictable bowl of plain instant oatmeal for the most part. If you're a casual fan of the Alien franchise, and not too demanding, you'll find entertaining moments.

Main thing is, it's an Alien franchise tie-in. Don't expect a masterpiece. If you do, and by all means it's completely fair if you do considering its origins, you'll probably be turned off pretty quickly.

For me: I enjoyed it, but I hate these mid-season episodes that are "back to the past to fill in important gaps" instead of moving the story forwards. And in season one, this is one of the most egregious examples because there's an episode in the middle that was literally just what a real first episode should have been. It disrupts the pace and it wasn't even particularly well-done as it was mostly confirmation of stuff you'd likely already assumed or figured out.

I think the stupidest part of the show (so far) was actually also one of my favorites. The eyeball alien makes absolutely zero sense at all no matter how you slice it, but the concept was as hilarious as it was horrifying, so I give them kudos.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

Agree, that episode was one of the worst. I was pretty surprised by all the hype surrounding it when it had zero tension because it was recapping things we already knew. You can't make survival horror after you've already told the audience who lives and who dies. That's not how it works at all.