It was only a matter of time before streaming would coax the Alien franchise onto the small screen, making Alien: Earth the flashies t and most accessible entertainment out this week. You would think it would be a brand-new Spike Lee and Denzel Washington movie, but Apple has made seeing their new collaboration in theaters near impossible if you don’t live in New York or Los Angeles. But if you are near a theater that has it, it ends on a high . Here’s the rest of our picks for this weekend in the meantime — like the end of And Just Like That … RIP.

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. FX’s Alien: Earth

Noah Hawley, who created Fargo and Legion , is behind this TV prequel to the original Alien set on our little planet. The plot is familiar enough — a spaceship crash-lands on

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