For Hawley, overlaying Peter Pan onto Alien: Earth ‘s science fiction made sense because of the idea of trapping children’s minds in immortal bodies that were created, and ruled over, by a literal boy genius. Moreover, because Barrie’s work isn’t quite as anodyne and sweet as Disney’s animated film.

When Rob McElhenney hailed Noah Hawley as one of television’s greatest, it felt less like flattery and more like surrender. And perhaps it truly was the latter. The cinematic Alien universe made its first leap to the small screen this week with Alien: Earth,

Fans were promised a dark, cerebral extension of the Alien universe in Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, which would include corporate fraud, xenomorph terror, and challenging philosophical issues about syn

Set in 2120, it hinges on a batch of alien and various mutating specimens who crash-land on Earth in a research vessel that’s owned by one of five corporations that now rule during this Corporate Era — a chillingly plausible schematic.

What’s the song that plays at the end of Alien: Earth Episode 1, just as Wendy and her friends are about to enter the wreckage on New Siam? That would be “The Mob Rules” by Black Sabbath. The song aptly opens with a warning to civilians that evil is on its way: