Alien: Earth Season 2: Everything We Know About What's Next for Wendy and the Lost Boys

Season 1 of Alien: Earth wasn't exactly what anybody expected, but that's par for the course with a new Noah Hawley show — the creator of shows like Fargo and Legion is always full of surprises. But despite receiving responses from fans of the franchise that can best be described as "all over the place," Season 2 is happening. The story of Wendy, her Lost Boys, and all those weird alien creatures will continue for another batch of episodes

Let's see what we know so far.

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Alien: Earth Season 2 latest news

Three very interesting new English cast members will be joining up for Season 2, according to Variety: comedian Tracey Ullman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Sam Spruell (Fargo, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) in unrevealed roles. These are all solid additions, but Flynn in particular developed a bit of a cult following for his work on Game of Thrones as Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, the sardonic sellsword who was one of the only working-class main characters in all eight seasons of the blockbuster series. He's the second major Game of Thrones actor to join the series for Season 2, after Peter Dinklage's casting was revealed in June. We'll talk about that more a bit further down.

Alien: Earth Season 2 release date prediction

Season 2 is expected to shoot this summer, so it might be tough for the new season to premiere before the end of 2026. We suspect that a 2027 release is more likely for a production of this magnitude.

Alien: Earth Season 2 potential storylines

Season 1 ended with Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and the other hybrids (terminally ill children whose minds were downloaded into robot bodies) fully in charge of Prodigy Corporation's Neverland island, with Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), the damaged android Kirsh (Olyphant), the cyborg Morrow (Babou Ceesay), and all the other adults locked up in a shared holding cell. And Wendy is able to hold things down with the help of a xenomorph friend, who seems to follow her instructions.

But there are a couple wild cards in play that could threaten Wendy's hold on power. Weyland-Yutani has cut off all communications with the rest of the world, cutting the undersea data cables and jamming satellite access — and who knows what else they have planned? Meanwhile, the eyeball creature — the Eye Midge — managed to take over the corpse of Prodigy tech Arthur in the season finale, and since that creature is clearly intelligent on a human level, it'll be very interesting to find out more about it now that it's in a body that is capable of human speech. So far, the eyeball creature has kinda been on its own side in all this.

Thematically, you can expect Season 2 to focus on the newly adult problems that the hybrids are having to deal with, after spending the first season growing up in a hurry. And you should expect Season 2 to also deal with a key existential question that was broached in Season 1: whether these hybrids really are the people they're supposed to be, or if they're just flawed copies of dead children in robot bodies.

Connections to the Alien movies

Alien: Earth takes place two years before the events of the original Alien film, which undoubtedly means that what happens on this show will ultimately matter in some way or another to the events of the films. But one of the hallmarks of the Alien franchise is that we never see the full context for what's going on — there's always been some corporate machinations by Weyland-Yutani going on just out of sight.

That's still the case now. While we explore the inner workings of Prodigy Corporation, Weyland-Yutani remains obscured. We know that Weyland-Yutani sent out a ship, the Maginot, to gather all these upsetting alien samples and bring them to Earth, and we still don't know what they planned to do with the samples, where they got them from, or any other details about their mission other than that it began its journey decades before the events of the prequel movie Prometheus. 

Since the Alien franchise is usually so stubborn about hiding the bigger picture, it's not too likely that the events of Alien: Earth will lead directly into the original film the way that, for example, the Star Wars series Andor led directly into Rogue One. And after the fiasco with the awful CGI version of Ash in Alien: Romulus, there's not much chance we'll be subjected to something embarrassing like a CGI de-aged version of Sigourney Weaver setting off on the Nostromo at the end of it. 

But a more tenuous connection is likely. Perhaps LV-426, the planet in both Alien and Aliens, was one of the places the Maginot visited, and the reason the Nostromo was directed there in the original film was because of what's going on in Alien: Earth. Just don't expect too many big franchise answers, because the Alien franchise doesn't usually do that. Not unless those answers spark a bunch of new questions, anyway.

Alien: Earth Season 2 cast and crew

Series creator Noah Hawley will once again be running the show, and you can expect every cast member whose character survived to return for Season 2, plus at least one who didn't, thanks to a certain character's body now being controlled by the eyeball monster. 

And, of course, several new cast members have been announced, like Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, Jerome Flynn, and Peter Dinklage. Flynn and Dinklage are a great pair to add for Season 2, as they worked together very closely for the first five seasons of Game of Thrones — and they played two of the show's best and most popular characters. We don't know anything yet about any of these new roles, but we really hope that Dinklage and Flynn get to share the screen, because they did a ton of great work together on Thrones.

Alien: Earth Season 2 expected cast list

• Sydney Chandler as Wendy
• Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh
• Alex Lawther as Hermit
• Babou Ceesay as Morrow
• Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia
• David Rysdahl Arthur Sylvia
• Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier
• Adarsh Gourav as Slightly
• Kit Young as Tootles
• Jonathan Ajayi as Smee
• Erana James as Curly
• Lily Newmark as Nibs
• Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins
• Peter Dinklage
• Jerome Flynn
• Tracey Ullman
• Sam Spruell

Where to watch Alien: Earth and the Alien films

Season 1 is available to stream on Hulu, and the Alien film franchise is available on HBO Max.