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Alien: Earth — a prequel series set before the original Alien movie — begins streaming and launches on cable this week. The official summary for Alien: Earth reads, “When the mysterious deep space ...

There have always been two kinds of monsters in the Alien franchise, each responsible for so much death. The first and most famous are Xenomorphs. But they have only killed so many people because of ...