Set in 2120, it hinges on a batch of alien and various mutating specimens who crash-land on Earth in a research vessel that’s owned by one of five corporations that now rule during this Corporate Era — a chillingly plausible schematic.

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Alien has always excelled at reminding us that human greed is just as deadly as a xenomorph’s second mouth, and Alien: Earth keeps that theme alive and kicking. There’s so much at stake, and the series seems destined to be a great big game of corporate chess with a supernatural backdrop.