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 ...

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 ...

Nine movies in, assumptions start to pile up like a precarious Jenga tower that every ounce of originality’s been squeezed out of the lucrative “Alien” franchise Ridley Scott erected. Just burn that ...