Spoilers ahead for all of the Alien films and Alien: Earth .

Do androids dream of electric sheep? What about plain-Jane organic sheep who’ve been hijacked by a grapefruit-size eyeball with tentacles ? Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley’s ambitious, oft-confounding TV expansion of the slimiest franchise in cinema history, isn’t afraid to ask the big questions. Specifically, the ones about what makes us human and whether we’re bound to acknowledge the humanity — for want of a better word — of machines that think, feel, suffer, and dream.

It’s ironic, then, that the credits for Alien: Earth identify the show as “based on elements created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett,” screenwriters of 1979’s landmark Alien , without naming producers David Giler and Walter Hill given that the latter

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