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 ...

Despite some concerns with the timeline, Alien: Earth’s first six episodes are an exciting and twisting adventure that feels well-realized. Taking place two years before the events of the 1979 film, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. First of all, no, Alien: Earth is not a nature documentary.

The Alien franchise has been around for 46 years, so it’s honestly shocking that Alien: Earth is its first leap to the small screen. We’ve had sequels, prequels, and spinoffs — some brilliant, some we ...

It’s clear from the get-go of Alien: Earth that Noah Hawley really wanted to make an Alien movie. The FX show’s evocative opening scenes, which take place on a Weyland-Yutani deep-space research ...

The series “Alien: Earth” feels a bit like the “Alien” franchise crash-landed into an entirely separate science fiction saga, because that’s more or less how it begins. The show is creator Noah Hawley ...

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 ...

ALIEN: EARTH keeps on upping the stakes and adding intense action AND heady concepts. I love when a show can be equal parts introspective and exhilarating and Noah Hawley and Co. are giving me exactly ...