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Most Alien movies end in explosions and bloodshed, but with FX’s Alien: Earth, creator Noah Hawley took a different approach. To unpack the show's season 1 finale, Polygon spoke to Hawley and star ...

Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...

“He likes the sheep,” Samuel Blenkin tells Polygon. “He thinks the sheep's kind of cool.” For Blenkin, who plays the petulant trillionaire genius Boy Kavalier, the sheep was also an excellent scene ...

Sigourney Weaver recently shared her thoughts on Alien: Earth, the first live-action TV project in the Alien franchise. Weaver gained recognition as an actress with her performance as Ellen Ripley in ...

Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, and Alex Lawther star in the FX series created by Noah Hawley, which continued this week. Reading time 6 minutes When Alien: Earth started, the main novelty was the ...

A lot of folks, human and otherwise, seem very interested in getting their hands on the newly crash-landed alien specimens. What could go wrong? By Sean T. Collins The “Alien” franchise explores two ...

Noah Hawley’s new expansion to the “Alien” franchise introduces a host of new characters and concepts — and some disgusting new monsters. By Sean T. Collins The year is 2120, and the planet is ...

It’s not every day that a beloved sci-fi franchise gets a long-awaited TV series, but today is one of those days. The first two episodes of Alien: Earth are now on Hulu and FX, and fans can finally ...

At a private event, the "Alien: Earth" showrunner reflected on the unique niche he occupies in the TV space and how he turned one of Hollywood's most convoluted sci-fi franchises into his own opus. At ...