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-cosmos ...

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, ...

“Alien: Earth” opens with a dense ream of exposition, though it boils down to just a couple important takeaways. (As Hawley pointed out to my colleague Daniel D’Addario in a cover story for this ...