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.

Alien: Earth, in other words, has a lot of ideas. So, too, did Alien, Aliens, and all the rest, up through the recent reboots and reimaginings. But all of those films—seven in the canon, along with ...

The Alien franchise has lived and died many times over the years. Currently, it’s in a particularly prolific era, with last year’s theatrical hit Alien: Romulus becoming the biggest entry in years and ...

With Alien: Earth, a new FX series from creator Noah Hawley, comes the perfect excuse to watch all of the movies from the series that brought us Ellen Ripley, the Xenomorph, David the android, and a ...

Alien: Earth premieres with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, and drops one episode per week after that. FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Spoilers follow. Since the release of "Prometheus" in 2012, the "Alien" franchise has been lingering on the prequel side of the story, with ...

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 ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...