The show has always been at its best when focusing on
the intrinsic freakiness of that alien body horror — and at its worst when doing anything else, be it the family woes of alcoholic, divorced scientist Eph (Corey Stoll) and his romantically - entangled colleague, Nora (Mia Maestro), the noble - thief origins of good - hearted (and bad - assed) gangster Gus (Miguel Gomez), or the detours to the sinister Stoneheart Group boss Eldritch Palmer (Jonathan Hyde), who craves immortality.