Alien: Earth – the franchise's first foray into TV – is ready to take over Hulu, FX, and Disney Plus internationally on August 12. Well ahead of its two-episode premiere, we've been able to watch (and greatly enjoy) the entirety of Season 1.

We were blessed enough to check out the show early, and it's an epic return to form for the Xenomorph — see our spoiler-free Alien: Earth review. We were also able to talk to series creator Noah Hawley (Fargo, Marvel's Legion) and executive producer David W. Zucker (The Terror, Raised by Wolves) about bringing this iconic sci-fi monster to the small screen.

We asked Hawley, who directed two out of eight episodes and was a writer across the entire season, about the menagerie of grotesque beings taken from the darkest corners of space that come to Eart

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