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When the corporate research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, synthetic hybrid Wendy (Sydney Chandler) leads a squad of young tactical operatives, including Alex Lawther's uneasy soldier, into the wreckage — and straight into the planet's first encounter with the xenomorph. Noah Hawley, the mind behind 'Fargo' and 'Legion', relocates Ridley Scott's franchise from deep space to a near-future Earth run by rival tech conglomerates, with Essie Davis's corporate operator embodying the show's real threat: human greed. It keeps the series' body-horror dread intact while asking sharper questions about who actually owns a monster once it lands in your backyard. Eight tense episodes make it the 'Alien' franchise's boldest expansion in decades.
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