Alien: Earth Season 2 risks repeating Prometheus' mistake by straying too far from the franchise's iconic spaceship setting, which is key to its atmosphere and appeal.

Although the plot of Prometheus might seem confusing, it is relatively easy to understand where Ridley Scott’s 2012 prequel ...

So far, Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth has proven to be a monster hit with audiences, and the show effortlessly weaves serious scares and mysterious lore into a tapestry of modern horror. One aspect of ...

The opening moments of Prometheus present a visually breathtaking but puzzling prologue. Viewers witness a lone Engineer on what appears to be a primordial Earth, positioned beside a thundering ...

If you've seen the latest Alien interquel, Alien: Romulus, then you likely caught some of the biggest connections to the larger franchise. Set in between the original Alien and its direct sequel ...

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Now, because none of this expository dialogue is actually in Prometheus, the canonicity of it is a bit wonky. But based on what happens in the movie, it pretty much all checks out. And yet, the ...

The timeline of the Alien film franchise is, to put it mildly, a bit wild. And a lot of it is contradictory. (Although we must say, it’s still not as all over the place as the Halloween franchise.) ...