We’ve all watched Alien movies on TV, but we’ve never had a new one made for it. That’s what happened this week , though, with the latest episode of Alien: Earth . Titled “In Space, No One…” , the episode flashed back to the events aboard the USCSS Maginot, which made it crash down to Earth. Events that, as you can imagine, involved lots of killer aliens.

We did an in-depth recap and breakdown of the episode at this lin k, so head there to read about it. But Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley, who also wrote and directed this episode, sat down with Collider to talk about it, and he had some interesting revelations.

For example, Hawley explained exactly why this episode happened at this point in the show. “I’m used to telling stories that are 10 episodes long, and this

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