With Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley expands the universe of the cinematic franchise in new ways. Read our spoiler-free review of season one. The Alien franchise has been terrifying audiences since 1979.

This review contains mild spoilers for “Alien: Earth,” Season 1. FX’s new “Alien” prequel, “Alien: Earth,” batters viewers expecting Xenomorph horror from an additional, less expected angle: The ...

The series is set in 2120, two years before the USCSS Nostromo would discover and harvest the xenomorph lifeform on LV-426. For the first time in the Alien franchise, we get a look at Earth itself, a ...