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Alien: Earth Season One, Episodes 1-4 Reviews · Prestons Super Show

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  Get ready for the political sensation with super host and
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  news breaker Preston Olsen. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
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  Preston Super Show. On this episode, we're talking
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  about Alien Earth Season 1, episodes one through 4.
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  I'm discussing these amazing episodes because Alien Earth is
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  some of the best television on TV right now and the Alien
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  universe is awesome. So let's talk about some keys to
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  the show. Limited spoilers.
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  The Prodigy Corporation is the main science research firm in
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  the world. They have one major rival in the
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  Prodigy created synthetic children.
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  So now that you know that, these episodes make a lot of sense.
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  You still won't know everything. You won't even know close to
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  everything going on, but they make a lot more sense.
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  It's easier to actually not get discouraged from watching
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  Episode 1. Neverland was very intoxicating.
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  Bold. You win.
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  Not supposed to have a heavy meal before cryo, Says the
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  doctor at the table in the opening.
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  The beginning is relaxed and eccentric.
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  Four months before they reach Earth.
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  Now Mauro mentions the specimens are the mission.
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  That's another good mental no. The mood gets tense after the
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  big banquet style breakfast and maybe they know the danger of
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  what's to come if their mission goes wrong.
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  Then we get a flashback or flash forward.
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  We are left to decide, is this intense experience something
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  that is going to happen or has happened?
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  Then the episode slows down. A sister meets her brother.
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  I'm talking about Wendy and Joe. We are seeing them in the other
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  synthetic humanoids go under this mind control type of
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  device. The layers are slowly being
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  peeled away that something dark is happening underneath that
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  rosy picture. We see an alien kills the crew
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  and Morrow survives by crash landing the ship into Earth.
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  So this rogue group, this group, maybe you're thinking, well,
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  they have to have something to do with a rival.
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  This moment marked a significant impact in the show's storyline,
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  really the direction of this show.
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  If Morrow survived, then the alien may have as well.
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  The ship crashing into Earth causes a huge disruption and it
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  sends people into a frenzy. The rest of this episode shows
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  the forces behind the alien scourge will not slow down.
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  Fantastic opening episode. I rate it 5 out of five stars.
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  Drop your comments on what you think and your big takeaways
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  from that episode. I'd love to hear them.
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  If you asked me who the best character was, I would say Wendy
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  in that first episode. Then we move to the second
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  episode called Mr. October. This was a pretty shocking
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  episode I have to say. A search and rescue unit is
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  deployed. They uncover tons of carnage
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  from there. A medic finds alien DNA in one
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  of the GI tracts of the fallen. You see an alien start to track
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  them. The three of these members in
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  the rescue unit take off and escape.
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  The Easter egg here is a woman has a flashback to the animated
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  film Ice Age, a movie her family was watching earlier.
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  Then Morrow and two others have a crazy Eye Monster charge at
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  them. It attacks Nibs, who's one of
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  these synthetic children, before retreating.
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  Now Joe, Wendy's brother, is also referred to as Hermit, and
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  he looks like he's about to die when Mauro burst in and shoots
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  the alien down with a stunt charge.
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  Now the show takes a dramatic turn here as well.
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  He then stunt charges Hermit and shoots a net to capture the
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  alien and drag the alien out. Some soldiers try to stop Morrow
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  but the alien awakes and kills them and really he let the alien
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  out. The alien spares Morrow.
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  This is really important to understand this part.
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  The alien chases down the other soldiers, going after them to
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  kill them, and we have to ask, why did it spare Morrow?
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  Are the aliens that intelligent that they know what's going on
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  while unconscious? Did the alien get the sense that
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  it wasn't going to be harmed by Morrow so didn't perceive him as
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  a threat? Some interesting questions,
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  interesting possibilities. Then Hermit meets with Wendy,
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  his sister in slightly one of the other synthetics.
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  As they venture on, it appears the alien has picked up their
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  trail. They find the nest in a
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  laboratory. The alien shows up and kidnaps
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  Hermit. Tootless starts to become
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  fascinated with the alien species, and he's also learning
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  a lot with Kirsch, who is kind of the overseer of the
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  synthetics while the Prodigy handles his business running the
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  empire he's got. And the Prodigy goes by Boy
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  Cavalier, and you will hear that referenced throughout the show.
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  Overall, it was a wild ride. I rate that five out of five
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  stars. Joe Hermit was my favorite
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  character in that episode. Episode #3 was a lot of fun.
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  That was called Metamorphosis. We see Nibs having a flashback,
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  then there's a meeting of the minds.
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  Wendy finds her brother Hermit in the back of the meat locker.
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  They're calling each other by their birth names.
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  If anyone noticed Joe is calling her Marcy, not Wendy, which is a
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  deeper story that starts to unravel that you have to kind of
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  quietly pick up on. Wendy is basically dog walking
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  the alien which is hard to believe but then it does kill
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  her or shut her down somewhat after she kills the alien with
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  the blade. Hermit is super sick.
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  His lung is failing him and he lays next to his sister Marcy
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  and they strangely have a Romeo and Juliet style death.
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  Interesting. Morrow breaks in on the lab with
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  the eggs. He starts doing a data transfer
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  and places it on the neck of slightly before jumping off the
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  building. The aliens have acid for blood,
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  or their blood is just highly acidic, but it's pretty much
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  acid. The eggs put off a parasite.
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  So basically wherever the eggs are growing, put off a parasite
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  that will kill the person who breathes it in from the inside
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  out. Another wrench in the plans of
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  solving what's in the embryos. Morrow calls Utani and finds out
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  it's been 65 years and this is her granddaughter and he has the
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  data now for the creatures but not the specimens which are the
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  mission which he set himself. Mauro vows to retrieve them even
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  though his contract is up. He uses a computer to contact
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  Slightly and he begins to coax him into helping him by twisting
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  Slightly's words against him. Kirsch was given the order to
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  lock down the eggs. Wendy has some sort of
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  connection to these embryos, to these aliens.
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  Kirsch injects the synthetic organs of Wendy with the alien.
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  The episode ends with Wendy having a seizure on the floor of
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  the Prodigy corpse sign. Pretty brutal, pretty gruesome.
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  Joe Hermit's lung has failed him.
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  We're still figuring out what's happened here, but it appears
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  the lung has been injected with something devastating.
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  And Joe has to deal with this new long that's paid for by
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  Prodigy Corp. This show, Alien Earth continues
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  to win me over with its suspense.
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  I rate it 5 out of five stars. Great episode.
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  Let's look at episode 4. Season 1 is scheduled for 8
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  episodes. Episode 4 is the midway point.
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  This is where the story really heated up.
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  Hold on to the edge of your seats.
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  We're about to get into it and it got really spicy.
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  They're finding out Wendy may have been chosen by the aliens.
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  She begins to communicate like an alien and then they take a
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  break when it gets too intense. And it really does.
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  The dialogue is great. They've completely sold me.
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  The prodigy hires Hermit, the brother of Wendy, and it's not
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  easy for him to join at 1st until he realizes he's kind of
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  backed into a corner, like a possum against the wall.
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  Morrow continues trying to flip slightly to his side and help
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  him retrieve the specimens. He's succeeding, but Kirsch
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  knows something is up and confronts him with the Riddle of
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  his own. I love the truth bomb he dropped
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  saying life is a constant test. After talking about the Buddhist
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  teachings, they run an experiment.
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  This is where it gets crazy on a goat with the monster eye.
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  It takes it over and becomes super advanced.
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  Nibs starts to become unstable, she's starting to have a
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  psychotic episode and almost kills the doctor.
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  The prodigy starts to become jealous over Wendy's brother.
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  Hermit, right? Too much attention for Hermit.
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  He doesn't like it. He wants the attention Boy
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  Cavalier is a jealous individual, right?
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  And he has this whole prodigy corporation because he was a boy
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  genius, a prodigy of birth, and he's grown up to just be this
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  very manipulative person. It, it feels like, right.
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  It feels like there's just a sinister side to him where he'll
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  do anything to get his way. Some of these scenes are shot on
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  this really beautiful couch. And they have this scene here
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  with the prodigy boy Cavalier and Wendy, and he's putting the
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  pressure on Wendy, basically making her come to agree that
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  she's going to help him find out what the aliens are saying and
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  what they want. And that way she can keep her
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  brother Joe Herman around. So she agrees she doesn't have a
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  problem with it. When slightly gave his name to
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  Mara, Morrow tracked down his mother and family to make sure
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  he keeps his word. Kirsch is on to him and
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  listening into the conversation. Great use of screen time.
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  I rate it 5 out of five stars. The show was getting better, so
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  everybody's excited for episode 5, and episode 5 will drop on
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  Tuesday. You can watch it on FX when it
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  premieres or on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
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  for listening to this episode of Preston Super's show where we
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  were able to recap all four episodes of the new show, Alien
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  Earth. And I can't wait to get together
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  with you next time. Just like the heads of time, I'm
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  turning it over to you. Goodnight and God bless Song 37
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  Four KJB.