The Alien franchise is finally making the leap to TV with Alien: Earth, an FX and Hulu series that takes the terrifying Xenomorphs down to Earth for the first time. It’s a big change from the usual isolated spaceships and deep-space horror we’re used to,

Noah Hawley, creator of FX's "Fargo" and trippy X-Men series "Legion," fundamentally understands what makes the aliens of "Alien" scary, and what makes the world Scott created so enticing to return to for film after film.

Nine movies in, assumptions start to pile up like a precarious Jenga tower that every ounce of originality’s been squeezed out of the lucrative “Alien” franchise Ridley Scott erected. Just burn that thought down.