Alien: Earth has finally hatched on TV screens across the globe. Noah Hawley's eagerly-awaited Alien TV show made its debut on August 12 (North and South America) and August 13 (everywhere else), and it seems like it's going down a treat with the sci-fi horror franchise's global fanbase.

Earth” ends with a five-star, no-notes needle drop (or choice of a pre-existing song). A tone of dread has been set throughout the episode, in which we learn that corporations, technology, and military rule in this future world.

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe.

Alien: Earth might have already done something that the folk at Lumon Industries in Severance have been building towards.

Earth doesn’t settle for unleashing the franchise’s signature acid-blooded terror on a new stage. It drags an entire menagerie of extraterrestrial nightmares down to our planet.

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.

The original Alien Xenomorph was discovered not in a glowing egg on a faraway planet or scuttling around a gloopy nest, but down the pub. That’s where Peter Archer, one of the film’s casting directors,

"The Grateful Dead Movie" in IMAX and a nostalgic cover by Royel Otis round out our picks for the weekend of Aug. 15.