Alien: Earth's second season risks overcomplicating the already convoluted Alien franchise timeline by introducing new lore and events too close to the original film's setting.

At seven feature-length films in total (without counting the Predator offshoots), the Alien franchise has chapters upon chapters of canon. What started with the characters introduced in Ridley Scott’s ...

"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

Because Alien: Earth takes place just two years before the events of the 1979 Alien, you’d think the show would be in a tricky spot, at least in terms of continuity with the original film. But, ...

FX’s new sci-fi series Alien: Earth, created by Noah Hawley, finally answers one of the biggest questions fans ask whenever a new Alien project arrives — where does it fit into the franchise’s ...

The “Alien” franchise gets an exciting new entry in its first TV series, “Alien: Earth,” which explores life on our planet in the context of the hunt for xenomorphs to study and weaponize. The ...

(CNN) — In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the ...