What's on TV this week—Alien: Earth and Butterfly
Plus, And Just Like That...'s series finale, a John Grisham adaptation, Acorn TV's Irish Blood, and more.
Alien: Earth (Photo: Patrick Brown/FX), Butterfly (Photo: Juhan Noh/Prime Video)
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, August 10 to Saturday, August 16. All times are Eastern.
The biggies
Alien: Earth (FX, Tuesday, 8 p.m.)
The Xenomorphs come to Earth in Noah Hawley’s prequel series, which is set two years before Ridley Scott’s Alien. In the show, a Weyland-Yutani spaceship crash-lands on the planet, bringing various dangerous alien species with it. So Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a synthetic robot with human consciousness, and her ragtag crew set off to capture them before they cause destruction. The sci-fi drama’s ensemble also includes Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Alex Lawther, Babou Ceesay, and Samuel Blenkin. The A.V. Club will recap the series weekly.
Butterfly (Prime Video, Wednesday, 3:01 a.m.)
Lost‘s Daniel Dae Kim leads this spy series as a former intelligence agent who faked his death nine years back to protect his family. He returns to learn that his now-adult daughter (played by Reina Hardesty) has become a top assassin for his former organization. And together they must navigate a complicated reunion while trying to uncover a global conspiracy and evade people who are trying to kill them. Look for The A.V. Club‘s review of the show on Monday.
Also airing
Irish Blood (Acorn TV, Monday, 3:01 a.m.)
