# The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)

> An extraterrestrial arrives on a turning-point Earth and must confront his own past to decide humanity's future.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/98673

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 55 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: science fiction, drama
- Created by: Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman
- Network: Showtime
- Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye, Clarke Peters, Martha Plimpton, Sebastián Viveros, Gerard Monaco, Olivia-Mai Barrett
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10758074/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: mild
- Tone: contemplative, melancholic, eerie, cerebral, tense

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with viewers rating the single season solidly and praising its ambitious sci-fi premise and performances.

## Synopsis

The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022) is a single-season American science fiction drama created by Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman and broadcast on Showtime. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Faraday, an extraterrestrial who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must reckon with his own buried past before he can judge what the species will become. Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye and Clarke Peters round out the principal cast as the Falls family, whose lives intersect with the visitor in ways that test his mission. The engine of the show is internal as much as external: Faraday searches for answers about who he is while navigating a world that is reshaping itself around him, and each episode unfolds through a measured mix of memory, present-day encounters and quiet dread. Presented as a ten-episode run of roughly fifty-five minutes each, the series is a serialized, single continuing story rather than a case-of-the-week format. Set in a contemporary American landscape, it carries the adult, cerebral register of prestige television, with a contemplative, melancholic and eerie tone. Fans of Battlestar Galactica and Twin Peaks will find resonance in its unsettling otherworldly figure and its meditative, identity-driven unease.

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