He and his team are dispatched to do damage control when a rival corporation’s research vessel crash lands on Prodigy territory. However, Hermit has more to worry about than saving civilians. The crashed ship was carrying five alien creatures,

Much like the film franchise that spawned it, not all the horror in Alien: Earth will involve aliens, it seems. However, if you’ve seen the first two episodes, you know there’s also plenty of oozy extraterrestrial terror on the show too. Have you checked it out yet?

Alex Lawther is one of the stars of the new Alien spin-off series, Alien: Earth, set two years before the original 1979 Ridley Scott film.

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler and Alex Lawther discussed how Noah Hawley's vision serves the franchise, world-building, and much more.

Fans of the actor, then, should add another 'brilliant' series to their watch lists - and this one has a 96 per cent rating. The show has been streamed for 44.3 million hours, as per FlixPatrol figures. And that's just between January 2023 and June 2025; the true viewing figures will be larger, considering the show joined Netflix in 2018.

Alien: Earth does an incredible balancing act of all the subgenres that make the franchise so unique. There is all the wonderful world-building any sci-fi series needs. The search and rescue is very reminiscent of Aliens with the marines. And, of course, the xenomorph itself brings the horror to the series.

Created by Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth, is a sci-fi horror series that is based on the much-loved Alien movies. The series premiered recently on FX and FX on Hulu on August 12, 2025 and will be available internationally on Disney+.

It's the same thing with Hawley's series Legion, which is tangentially connected to Marvel's X-Men, but not connected to the Fox-produced movies in any way, and wound up totally blazing it's own trippy,