“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

One could easily make the argument that the future of an entire franchise rested on the success or failure of FX's "Alien: Earth." The show is a dramatic deviation from the standard storytelling ...

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