Alien: Earth could have played things so simply. Take the idea of an Alien movie , place it anywhere on Earth, and go from there. A xenomorph in a skyscraper ( Die Hard Alien )! A xenomorph on a boat ( Jaws Alien )! A xenomorph on a plane ( Top Gun Alien )! Any silly idea like that would’ve been easy to do. And yet, creator Noah Hawley looked at the idea of aliens on Earth and did not just do one thing unexpectedly; he did everything unexpectedly , which is why the show was so polarizing and, in our minds, so great.

The first season of Alien: Earth came to a close last week , and, ultimately, it was less about the titular, acid-blooded creature from space and more about technology, immortality, and humanity. It followed a mega corporation named Prodigy, which had fi

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