Alien: Earth and A Quiet Place: Day One

Humans are being stupid again...

Alien: Earth

This currently one season horror starts with a spaceship crashing into a city and said spaceship is a scientific research vessel that's been collecting "specimens". Not really a spoiler: face huggers and xenomorphs ahoy. The costume and set design are the true winners here as they really bring to life the retro future of the alien franchise.

Paired with this however is the story of new, hybrid synths which are your regular white blooded AI body but instead of having a (usually murderous and psychotic) AI mind, a human consciousness is placed within instead - offering a type of immortality. Since only kid minds are compatible there's a lot of Peter Pan references and... yeah. They're mostly stupid too. 

It's an interesting show at least so we'll definitely watch a season two when/if it comes out, but the horror aspect is lost towards the end of this season and I strangely felt the death count is still too low. Maybe I just got spoiled by the movies.

A Quiet Place: Day One

This prequel to the other Quiet Place movies follows a terminally ill cancer hospice resident named Sam (played by Lupita Nyong'o) and her scene stealing cat Frodo, on their quest to get... pizza? Yes, that sounds silly but this movie makes it work. The many alien monsters show up pretty early in the piece, still do most of their kills off screen and aren't afraid of the light (good CGI). As they purely go off sounds its generally easy to get around them... except people are stupid because the plot requires action moments. Outside of those questionable decisions, the film is quite enjoyable. The cat is the true hero. :P