When to Watch New Episodes of <i>Alien: Earth</i> Season 1

For showrunner Noah Hawley, the challenge of Alien: Earth wasn’t just bringing one of sci-fi’s most iconic monsters—the Xenomorph—to television for the first time; it was making sure the FX prequel series, which is set before Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien, wasn’t only about the monster.

“I tried to figure out what the first two films [Alien and Aliens] made me feel and why. How can I create those feelings in an audience by telling a totally different story?” Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter in July. “With Alien: Earth, it has to be a great dramatic show. Then the monsters become this bonus that you get, versus just doing monster action and horror.”

Alien: Earth takes the franchise to a new setting—our own planet—and highlights the kind of class power struggles that have always lurked beneath the surface of the Alien films. “One of the things that Alien is to me is a movie about class. You start the first movie with space truckers, and then the second movie is [Marine] grunts. [Paul Reiser’s character] is middle management. There’s this sense that class is a real issue as a 1970s thing that came into it. So I wanted to bring that element into this show as well,” Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter.

Here’s how to tune into the new show.

The series kicks off with a two-episode premiere on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 P.M. ET on FX and Hulu. There are eight episodes in total.

New installments debut on Tuesdays at 8 P.M. ET on FX and on Hulu at the same time. Check out the full episode release schedule below:

• Episode 1, “Neverland”: August 12
• Episode 2, “Mr. October”: August 12
• Episode 3, “Metamorphosis”: August 19
• Episode 4, “Observation”: August 26
• Episode 5, “In Space, No One…”: September 2
• Episode 6: September 9
• Episode 7: September 16
• Episode 8 (Finale): September 23