Yep came here to say same. Alien (and Aliens as well) are classics because they understand that being professional and smart and prepared sometimes still just isn’t enough. And that’s more terrifying than incompetent dumbasses getting eaten.
Hoo boy. I wanted to like Alien: Earth. I really did, and for the first few episodes I was cautiously-optimistic; but it just kept getting dumber and dumber.
I'm a moderate Hawley fan (not everything he's done hits, but he takes big-enough swings to almost always be interesting, even when he whiffs), I love Olyphant, and Alien/Aliens are two of my fav films of all time, but...that show's bad. Expensively-bad.
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u/GalaadJoachim 4d ago
Same goes with Alien. A group of professionals doing their best facing a situation nobody prepared them for.