Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

One of the surprising joys of Alien: Earth has been how unencumbered the whole thing feels within the scope of blockbuster, franchise filmmaking. For decades now, the Alien franchise has been trapped ...

The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...

“That depends on what grosses you out the most,” Hawley said when asked if the xenomorphs are still the scariest creatures of Alien: Earth. “I think we’re giving them a run for their money, certainly.