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Six episodes of Alien: Earth watched for this spoiler-free review. Alien is a long-running sci-fi franchise that, arguably, only has two good entries in its entire canon: Ridley Scott's ...

The Alien franchise has been terrifying audiences since 1979. But what if we told you the scariest thing in Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth was not the Xenomorph, but a sheep with the creepiest stare ...

FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the beginning what this series is trying to do. It all at once pays homage to the original Alien film while also ...

Alien: Earth arrives at the end of its first season with “The Real Monsters,” an episode title that means a little bit of everything. The show hasn’t made too much of a secret about who “The Real ...

When Noah Hawley turned “Fargo” into a TV series, he approached the beloved Coen brothers’ film as a “state of mind” — a familiar world to play in, rather than a specific story to retell. With “Alien: ...

What is Prodigy’s endgame here? Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 3 ramped up the intrigue in the aftermath of the ship’s crash-landing, doubling down on mystery while broadening the scope of this prequel ...

Alien: Rogue Incursion immediately landed on my radar when it was first announced for the Meta Quest headset, but I’m not big on playing VR games, so I was excited to hear that Survios was porting the ...

After so much excitement leading up to Alien Earth‘s premiere date, creator Noah Hawley gave fans everything and more that one might expect in a series for the Alien universe. Instead of trapping a ...

Alien: Earth has been firing on all cylinders since its premiere, but Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 5 may be its most ambitious hour yet. By rewinding the clock to the USCSS Maginot’s doomed 17-day ...

I don’t know which is sloppier – the crew of the USCSS Maginot or the writing on Alien: Earth. At long last, in Episode 5, we get to see what happened aboard the Weyland-Yutani research vessel. We ...

The Alien (or Xenomorph) is the least impressive aspect of FX's ambitious science-fiction series about a near-future where corporations run the world, and their founders' pursuit of immortality may ...