The Aliens

2016 • Channel 4

3.7

7 reviews

Rating

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Episode 1

3/8/16

Lewis is a border-guard at the checkpoint that patrols the wall between aliens and humans in the UK. After a chance encounter with Lilyhot, a mysterious alien, Lewis’ life is thrown upside-down when he discovers that he is half-alien… Things begin to spiral out of control as Holly, Lewis’ sister, gets embroiled with an alien drug gang and is kidnapped and taken into Troy.

2 Episode 2

3/15/16

After Lilyhot reveals to Lewis that his real alien father Antoine is in prison, Lewis agrees to help break him out. But when they finally meet for the first time, their relationship gets off to a rocky start. Meanwhile Truss, who works as a border control guard with Lewis, begins to suspect that Lewis is involved in some shady dealings.

3 Episode 3

3/22/16

Lilyhot tries to persuade Antoine to start a war with Fabien, assuring him that he can retake control of Troy, but Antoine just wants a quiet life and sees through Lilyhot's motive.

4 Episode 4

3/28/16

With his suspicions of Lewis growing, Truss decides to follow him into Troy. However, Truss is spotted in Troy by the Alien League, a movement that fights for alien equality, who then start to hunt him down. It is down to Lewis to get Truss out of Troy before the Alien League find him...

5 Episode 5

4/4/16

Dominic is forced to become a hitman and finds himself tasked with murdering small-time drug-dealer Sean, while Lewis decides to hand himself in to the authorities.

6 Episode 6

4/11/16

With the gang war raging and Aliens amassing at the border, Troy is put into lockdown – no one in, no one out. With the help of Lilyhot, Lewis realises that he’s got to bring the bloody gang war to an end.

101 Creating a Believable World

4/13/16

A look at how The Aliens world was created.

102 Close Encounters with the Cast

4/13/16

A chat with the cast of The Aliens.

About this show

In this sci-fi comedy drama, extra-terrestrials landed in the UK in the 1970s and have since become unwanted immigrants, corralled into a walled-off ghetto. Lewis is a border guard who keeps aliens and humans on their respective sides of the town - but then he discovers that he himself may be one of the Aliens. Soon he is dragged into a criminal underworld determined to cause havoc on both sides of the border.

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3.7

7 reviews

Hugh Smith

May 4, 2016

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