This article contains major spoilers for FX's Alien: Earth (2025), now streaming on Hulu. FX's Alien: Earth is the newest addition to the Alien franchise, and it has been dominating streaming charts.

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...