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Apr 24, 2022 · Hallo, Spaceboy: Directed by Alex Kurtzman. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye, Clarke Peters. An alien crashes deep into the oil fields of New Mexico with a mission: to find the one woman on earth who can save his species.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Alex Kurtzman
- 2022-04-24
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By Samantha Nelson
Updated: Apr 24, 2022 1:05 pm
Posted: Apr 24, 2022 1:00 pm
The Man Who Fell to Earth debuts on Showtime on April 24, 2022.
The 1976 David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth followed an alien from a drought-stricken world who journeyed to Earth looking for help, using his tech savvy to amass great wealth and build a spacecraft to travel home. The plot feels prophetic amidst news of megadroughts and a billionaire space race, yet the premiere of Showtime’s sequel series The Man Who Fell to Earth does little to make a case for its own relevance.
“Hallo Spaceboy” (all of the season’s 10 episodes are named for Bowie songs) is framed by the alien called Faraday (Chiwetel Ejiofor) giving a sort of TED Talk to an extremely hyped-up crowd of disciples. In a scene against gorgeous images of his journey through the cosmos and physical transformation from a reptilian creature to a human, Faraday promises to share the story of how he became a tech god and to introduce a game-changing new technology.
The cliche is used to try to add shape to what is otherwise an episode mostly filled with fish-out of-water absurdity that combines bits of the original Thor and Resident Alien but without as much clever humor or warm humanity. Ejiofor’s alien lands in New Mexico and is quickly arrested for wandering around naked and drinking out of a garden hose. The scene is largely played for laughs even though later moments in the episode more pointedly focus on the danger Faraday faces just by walking around in a Black body.
Faraday struggles with learning English in a goofy way Bowie’s Thomas Newton didn’t have to, exaggeratingly repeating words and noises and picking the name Faraday from an officer’s name tag. The strutting moral ambiguity of a tech bro is comfortable territory for Ejiofor, but he doesn’t quite sell the silliness of the character he’s playing in Episode 1.
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Despite a highly relevant premise and a strong cast, the first episode of The Man Who Fell to Earth is like the worst kind of tech bro — it doesn’t offer anything innovative enough to actually live up to its own hype.
Apr 25, 2022 · Hallo, Spaceboy Episode 1 of The Man Who Fell to Earth begins with an introduction to our alien. This refugee from another world is reborn on this planet, crawling through a strange orange goo and quite literally changing into a different skin.
Apr 24, 2022 · Hallo Spaceboy. S1 E1: An alien (Chiwetel Ejiofor) crashes deep into the oil fields of New Mexico with a mission: he has eight hours to find the one woman on earth (Naomie Harris) who can save his species. Together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. Series premiere. Sci-Fi Apr 24, 2022 51 min.
Episode 1 Aired Apr 24, 2022 Hallo Spaceboy An alien (Chiwetel Ejiofor) on a mission crashes in the oil fields of New Mexico with only eight hours to find the one woman on Earth (Naomie...
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- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Alex Kurtzman
- April 24, 2022
S1 E1 - The Man Who Fell to Earth: Hallo Spaceboy. April 23, 2022. 54min. TV-MA. An alien arrives on earth to save his species. Store Filled. Available to buy. Buy HD $2.99. More purchase options.
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Apr 24, 2022 · An alien arrives on earth with a mission: to learn to become human and find the one woman who can help save his… Enjoy this free episode from SHOWTIME! Apple TV+
