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 ...

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” 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 ...

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...

Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 5 “In Space, No One…” is an extraordinary hour of television for one simple reason: it changed my mind. For four episodes I have been going on and on about the evils ...

But, as can be expected, the Maginot and her crew are doomed after a containment breach, and the ship crashes right in the middle of New Siam, a densely populated city right in the middle of Prodigy ...