I’m a few weeks into this and it’s pretty great. Clueless kids in robot bodies, cyborgs, aliens and corpo chuds who are just begging to get face-hugged. Anyone else enjoying this?
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I miiiight check it out. I haven’t heard good things about the story, but alot of praise for the visuals. It may have to be one of those turn your brain off and enjoy the spectacle.
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I’m pretty cranky and hard to please but I’m enjoying the show so far.
Take that for what you will. Not saying my word is gold or anything.
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It’s pretty fun IMO, even if there are some holes in the story. Watch with a healthy amount of suspension of disbelief and it’s quite enjoyable. I am kind of biased since I like alien creatures. 
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The original Alien was released the year I was born and I’ve only ever found a handful of films that made me as nervous as it did. I’ve enjoyed every installment of the franchise, even the games. I remember an 8 bit story mode one where I kept being ambushed by the xeno. Good times.
End of season 1 and I like only one humanoid (?) character, maybe two…
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I was really hoping boy wonder got the eyeball treatment. Sad.
The eyeball is a great addition, ngl. 
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Finally finished the show. Took me forever because I kept falling asleep. Not the show’s fault. Just been super busy and I’ve been trying to watch it after work or in the evenings on the weekend.
Spoilers below. You have been warned.
I thought it started off pretty strong but kind of tripped at the finish line. I was really hoping the eyeball was going to be something more. Something super intelligent and not just another killing machine. I was also disappointed the boy genius and his butler turned into a villain of the week. “Oh look. A rich guy with no morals. Haven’t seen that plot in every single Disney and James Cameron movie /yawn”. The brother being a super hippy was also extremely cliche. Everything was just getting so predictable. I wasn’t enjoying knowing what was going to happen before it happened.
I did like Wendy being able to talk to the alien. I know a lot of people didn’t like that. For me that finally answered the question why anyone would want a xenomorph. For 50 years in cinema the Weyland corp has been trying to get their hands on this animal and I can’t be the only person that has said “…why?” None of these movies have shown a way to control them and it has felt like a complete waste of time and resources, which to me is the reason the first movie will always be the best. Wendy/Marcy showed what it would be like to control one and lets you imagine a country (or company) with a military that could. It would be truly horrifying.
They left it open for a season two. Fingers crossed they don’t drop the ball. And they do more with that eyeball.
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I wanted to like a lot, posted a lot of good words about it early on, but then slowly realized that it just wasn’t good towards the end. It was a mish mash of ideas stitched together by a big budget and famous writer name at best. Really a missed opportunity, form over substance. Hard to believe it’s the by the same guy who made Fargo.
The eye plot didn’t go anywhere. The Kirsh plot didn’t go anywhere, he just sort got broken by the cyborg dude in the last episode. The whole corporate rivalry plot was reduced to a personal bickering between a wanna be “boy genius” and stereotyped Japanese Ms Yutani. I thought the whole point of corporations shown in Aliens was that they were these faceless committees and sleazy ambitious types like Burke. Although I guess they decided to parody modern CEO types, fair.
The only thing I kinda liked was the idea of hybrid children siding with aliens against humans. I thought that was an interesting idea of exploring the nature of humanity and sort of arrogant dominance humans have about everything so much that if you remove deadly threat of xenomorphs to these children, then humans become the monsters to them, not xenomorphs.
But overall it was very undercooked.
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Second season just announced.
Hey… that’s… a thing!