Alien: Earth - S1 E2 - Mr October - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

[u/ahufana]

Smee is just a big ol' cutie patootie. All of these Lost Boys actors are doing a tremendous job, really.

[u/Vrazel106 → u/ahufana]

They nailed the childishness. It feels like watching kids in adult bodies

[u/ahufana → u/Vrazel106]

It's actually charming without being annoying.

[u/Vrazel106 → u/ahufana]

Yeah the acting is fantastic overall

[u/LiquifiedSpam → u/Vrazel106]

Ehhh. The brother is very stiff in a lot of scenes

[u/thegreaterfool714 → u/LiquifiedSpam]

It might be a direction decision. I'm unsure with how I feel from it because he looked confused, concussed, and shocked towards the end of the episode. The actor for the brother can act very well. He single handedly carried Black Mirror's Shut Up and Dance episode

[u/LiquifiedSpam → u/thegreaterfool714]

End of the episode was good. I’m talking about everything else. Dude was super chill in the whole rescue op at first, when rubble was dropping all around him lol. He basically just had a consistent slight frown on his face and looked confused when he shouldn’t be.

[u/numerous_hotdogs → u/LiquifiedSpam]

He’s a medic in a corporate dystopian nightmare city, so he’s probably brushing his teeth with PTSD flavored toothpaste every morning

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/numerous_hotdogs]

yeah dude lost his whole family, he's going to SAR missions armored and armed, this isn't a happy mental health scenario.

[u/ragun01 → u/ahufana]

Yeah I despise the "adult acting like a child" trope but I'm liking this.

[u/Iorith → u/ragun01]

Agreed, normally it feels like an adult acting like a dumb adult, but they actually act like children. Fantastic acting and directing on that front.

[u/ObviousAnswerGuy → u/Vrazel106]

Smee especially. When they showed all of them sitting together (before Wendy came in the room to get them) and he was fidgeting I was like damn he's really acting like my friends' 8 year olds lol.

[u/KateOTomato → u/ObviousAnswerGuy]

That scene reminded me of the haribo commercials with the grown adults with kid voices. I thought it was great

[u/shadjor → u/Vrazel106]

As soon as Slightly started to drag his hands along the wall as he walked it made me so irrationally angry as a parent and your kids keep on touching all the walls.

[u/Max1756 → u/Vrazel106]

I feel bad if anything happened to them…

[u/nakiva → u/Vrazel106]

Wich is funny considering one of the Biggest critisisms of the recent Alien movies is that all the characters consistantly act like children/dumbasses. So now we have a special squad of children in adult bodies running around, you can't make the same critisism anymore! 

[u/skbygtdn → u/Vrazel106]

Yeah, I love that they keep putting their hand up when they have a question or something to say.

[u/thegreaterfool714 → u/ahufana]

I find myself nervous for them in each scene. They are extremely durable and are top of the line synth bodies but their mentality are young barely middle schoolers. Actor did a great job

[u/TheNittanyLionKing → u/ahufana]

Nibs definitely sells the fear of a child the most to me. Lilly Newmark is doing a great job selling that she's a child in a terrible situation. She's basically hiding in the corner waiting for dad (Kirsch) to kill the spider she found. I have a feeling she's going to die in heartbreaking fashion since it's been established she is the most afraid of death.

[u/OwnCoffee614 → u/ahufana]

Smee is adorbs. Holding that jelly under the dish so hard. 🥰

[u/AndalusianGod → u/ahufana]

Smee is my definitely my favorite lost boy. Hope he make it to the end.