Before the Xenomorph crash-lands on streaming, we talked to five Alien: Earth cast members about the difficulties and fun of navigating the giant sci-fi show.

Noah Hawley leaned into the 'Alien' franchise's retro-futurism when making 'Alien: Earth,' adding Peter Pan mythology and Easter eggs.

Alien: Earth opens in the year 2120, a time when five mega-corporations rule the planet and dictate the course of human evolution.

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.

Heading back aboard the Weyland-Yutani spaceship, the prequel series Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Babou Ceesay and Samuel Blenkin.

Elsewhere on the ship, Hermit, Rashidi, and Siberian find that the cryopods are bloodied and destroyed. There are no survivors, and Hermit identifies the bodies as having been here for over a week, far before the crash. The Lost Boys and Kirsh arrive at the crash site as the Maginot shifts in the ruins.

Fans were promised a dark, cerebral extension of the Alien universe in Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, which would include corporate fraud, xenomorph terror, and challenging philosophical issues about syn

This article contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth, “Neverland” and “Mr. October.”