Scott Douglas Jacobsen asks for an update; Rick Rosner toggles from an OCD-shirt gym chat and a teen’s hair-tic echoing an Emmy winner to Alien: Earth’s mid-episode beats: Wendy/Marcy protests Nibs’s memory wipe, Hermit consults a fired scientist, and an insect-fed death nears discovery in real time. Rosner thinks machine-eating insects signal attrition without erasing the core cast. He rates the series 8–8.5 and contrasts spectacle with craft: Elmore Leonard’s inevitable, unsensational collisions versus Fast & Furious physics. Regretting not greeting Elmore Leonard (and passing on Harlan Ellison), he skewers clichés, praises fairer game-show mechanics, and warns perfectionism smothers output.