After three episodes set (mostly) on the wreck of the Maginot, Alien: Earth slowed things down a bit back on Neverland, the home of the Prodigy corporation, for this week’s fourth episode. While there ...

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But, as can be expected, the Maginot and her crew are doomed after a containment breach, and the ship crashes right in the middle of New Siam, a densely populated city right in the middle of Prodigy ...

Nine movies in, assumptions start to pile up like a precarious Jenga tower that every ounce of originality’s been squeezed out of the lucrative “Alien” franchise Ridley Scott erected. Just burn that ...