Sci-fi fans, your new TV obsession is here: FX ‘s Alien: Earth expanded the world of the Alien franchise in Tuesday’s series premiere — and scared the bejeezus out of us, too.

The premiere opens in the year 2120, aboard the space research vessel the Maginot , owned by the infamous Weyland-Yutani corporation. The crew are on a 65-year mission, and they emerge from cryogenic sleep to smoke cigarettes, eat and argue. (The ship is a remarkable match for the Nostromo from the original Alien , down to the retro computer screens.) They’re still four months from returning home to Earth, and they’re bringing back a lab full of creepy alien specimens. The ship’s security officer, a cyborg named Morrow (Babou Cessay), insists that “the specimens are the mission” — and as crew members g

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