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 ...

Fans of the Alien and Predator franchises have never eaten better. Prey and Alien: Romulus surprised fans with modern returns to form for each franchise, and this year, fans get to sink their teeth ...

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 ...

The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...