Alien: Earth,' the new series from Noah Hawley, starts with a crashed ship, mind transplants, a blood-eating bug, and more thrills.

Earth,” batters viewers expecting Xenomorph horror from an additional, less expected angle: The series is practically drowning in “Peter Pan” metaphors that don’t quite work. That’s partly by design;

It's also a proper work of Hawley's, a mishmash of his Marvel masterpiece Legion and other prestige sci-fi of the past ten years, from Westworld to Severance. "Neverland" is a long, labored inhalation for what is a simple inciting incident.