This post contains spoilers For the episode "Alien: Country" 5.

Several years have passed for science fiction with a big budget on television. Among the shows like "Andor", "Foundation", "Old Trek: Strange New Worlds" and "Severis", the genre has advanced, although several of those series are now ending, or recently approaching. "Alien: Earth" on FX (Read Our Review Here) We hope to keep the trend, and so far, it is a strong candidate to enter the same Pantheon from the 2020s. And, talking about "separation", there is a slightly shared pedigree with that Apple TV+ show that you may have missed in the first episode, and now again in episode 5, "In space, no one ..."

Of course, I am talking about Karen Aldridge, played by the science officer for Vayland-Schiubuzo on the magin-ship that brings dangerous strangers back to the country for research and development of bioapons. Episode 1 shows the ship that loses control after breaking the laboratory and falling into a city driven by Vayland-Schoutani's rival corporation, Prodigy. In episode 5, we return in time to see the correct chain of events that led to the emergence, with a lot of material focused specifically on Chibuzo and its experiments on different types of foreign.

If she looks known, you may have seen the "separation" earlier this year. Aldridge appears in a bigger role in that show as Asal Regabi, the doctor who goes hostile from Lumon Industries and ultimately helps Mark Scout (Adam Scott) Better understand and take control of the mysterious discharge procedure. Leavee left things because of the disposal of "cutting off" spoilers, but it is fun to see that Aldridge plays another science scientist at Alien: Country. Unfortunately, the fate of Chibuzo is a little fierce than that of the regards, but their circumstances like the pillars of the wicked corporate prevailers are incredibly similar.

Both "Alien: Earth" and "Severance" are interested in the same basic ideas: corporate control in a world where everything-in-law and consciousness-privatized, and the dangers of allowing profit systems to take your memories. "Separation" is set in an alternative version of nowadaysPutting it far earlier on a timeline from Alien: the futuristic universe, but deals with the same problems, only developing at the previous point. Democracy, though technically still intact, quickly gives way to unverified corporate power.

In "Grade", Mark lives in the housing of Lumon and signed approximately half of the company's life to deal with what is pleasant, without being allowed to know what his "Indji" works through work. It is not so different from the crew of the mag, who has sacrificed 65 years, but only live through a few of them thanks to cryo-statases, all for a quarter in the company, and everyone is just sent again when they return.

The Corporate Corporate Plutocracy of Cyberpunk, be it in an alternative present or an increasingly likely future, is dark. Maybe that's why shows like this resonate so powerful at this point.