Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of "Alien: Earth."

Noah Hawley's "Alien: Earth" is remarkable for several reasons, one of which is that it doesn't seem (so far) to be all that concerned with being a prequel to the "Alien" movie franchise. To be sure, it's not attempting to stray all that far away, either; set two years before "Alien," the series is clearly attempting to have its visual aesthetic stick closely to Ridley Scott's 1979 film. Nowhere is this more apparent than the production design of the USCSS Maginot, the ship whose doomed mission and crash landing on Earth kicks off the action in the show. While Hawley and the series' other directors certainly impose their own distinctive shooting and cutting styles on their episodes, the production design and lighting of the Maginot

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