Alien: Earth’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score has revealed a sharp divide between fans and critics following the premiere of the franchise’s latest entry.Alien: Earthpremieredon Tuesday, August 12 with its first two episodes, showcasing the crash-landing of theMaginotspace vessel and the aliens, including Xenomorphs, that are aboard. The show will run for 8 episodes in total.
However, according to Rotten Tomatoes, there’s a divide between critics and audiences regardingAlien: Earth’s quality. The critics' score for the series sits at 93% as of writing, whilethe audience score for the Hulu series is at 79%. While both are positive, audiences don’t seem to favor the show as much as critics, despite still enjoying it overall.
What Alien: Earth’s Audience Score On Rotten Tomatoes Says About The Show
Alien: Earthtakes place prior to the original movie ontheAlientimeline, dealing with both the extraterrestrial threats that have arrived, alongside competition between Weyland-Yutani and fellow tech company Prodigy Corporation. The series has some familiar elements, like Xenomorphs and synthetics, but also uses them in different ways, such as Prodigy transferring human consciousness into synthetic bodies.
While critics have praised the show on various fronts, some audience members aren’t as keen on the show. This includes criticism of the show’s character writing and story pacing, which some considered not as strong as previous franchise entries. Others found the show’s approach to human-synthetic hybrids too ludicrous, especially for something happening before the events of the first film.
However, despite critiques aimed atAlien: Earth’s charactersand storylines, the show has still received some strong audience praise in other areas. This includes the directing alongside the performances, which bolster any lack of development the characters have as of episode 2. Though there’s a divide between them and critics, both still have generally positive thoughts on the series.
Our Take On Alien: Earth’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Division
Although there’s a slight divide between critics and audiences, both groups generally have praise for the series. Even though audiences have more critiques than critics do, the show has still proven itself a good-to-great installment in theAlienfranchise. The series is elevated by its franchise elements while still doing plenty to tread its own path within the larger universe.
The audience score is also based on just the first two episodes of the show, with the series still having six more weeks before the story of season 1 is complete. This meansAlien: Earthstill has time to win over more audience members, perhaps garnering a larger positive reception as more of the story plays out.
New episodes ofAlien: Eartharrive Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu.
