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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 ...

Noah Hawley, creator of Fargo and Legion, is now creating exciting sci-fi horror *inside* the established lore of a storied franchise. What can’t this guy do? For FX’s eight-episode Alien: Earth, ...

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 ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

“Alien: Earth” opens with a dense ream of exposition, though it boils down to just a couple important takeaways. (As Hawley pointed out to my colleague Daniel D’Addario in a cover story for this ...

The demise of Tootles (Kit Young) in Alien: Earth episode 6 is both avoidable and frustrating, but the silver lining is that it allows the show's greatest character to shine. We're talking, of course, ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. And, as it turns out, in space, nobody can tell if you’re bad at your job, either. At least, that seems to be the premise of Alien: Earth episode 5, in which we ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...

Curly (Erana James), Tootles (Kit Young), and Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) look at a specimen in a jar in Alien: Earth. Image via FX on Hulu Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth ...