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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Truth be told, I approached “Alien: Earth” with a degree of skepticism. That’s not due to a lack of love for the iconic sci-fi ...

The Alien (or Xenomorph) is the least impressive aspect of FX's ambitious science-fiction series about a near-future where corporations run the world, and their founders' pursuit of immortality may ...

Whatever your preconceived notions ofAlien: Earthmay be, this FX prequel series, set two years before the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien, is simultaneously more horrific and restrained than you might ...

Six episodes of Alien: Earth watched for this spoiler-free review. Alien is a long-running sci-fi franchise that, arguably, only has two good entries in its entire canon: Ridley Scott's ...

“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 ...

Timothy Olyphant is a scene-stealer as the synthetic Kirsh. Image Credit: FX. Alien: Earth is a love letter to the franchise, but instead of a survival story centred on a select few characters, the ...

FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...

The FX drama series takes place in Prodigy City in 2120 — that's two years before the events of the influential first Alien film.