The series “Alien: Earth” feels a bit like the “Alien” franchise crash-landed into an entirely separate science fiction saga, because that’s more or less how it begins. The show is creator Noah Hawley ...

“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 ...