Alien: Earth Might Be Making Sense of the Alien Timeline After All

For the past 46 years, the Alien franchise has been immortalized by the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Just four episodes in, and Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth is making it clear that the mantra doesn’t apply to our little third rock from the sun. While Alien: Earth takes place some 27 years after Ridley Scott’s Prometheus , and two years before his OG Alien , it’s already filling in some important gaps in the ever-convoluted series timeline.

Scott’s 1979 opus focused on the doomed crew of the USCSS Nostromo , with the Weyland-Yutani employees ending up on the shadowy surface of LV-426. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the rest of the Nostromo grunts simply said they worked for “the Company,” although eagle-eyed viewers picked up on it being Weyland-Yutani.