The pilot only delivers slivers of the story viewers will come to know, and I won’t get into the alien plot to avoid spoilers, but there’s plenty of Xenomorph carnage. There is, in any event, a crash.

The show, based on the Ridley Scott film, creates its own creepy-cool world and juggles ideas that go beyond merely trying to gross out its audience.

'Alien: Earth' creator Noah Hawley and 'Predator: Badlands' director Dan Trachtenberg both address the crossover at San Diego Comic-Con. The stars of the upcoming FX show 'Alien: Earth' stopped by the convention to show fans what's in store this summer.

Enthusiasts of the horror of the Alien movies are set to get a new fix in the shape of a new TV series, Alien: Earth.

It's also a proper work of Hawley's, a mish-mash of his Marvel masterpiece Legion and other prestige sci-fi of the last ten years, from Westworld to Severance. "Neverland" is a long, labored inhalation for what is a simple inciting incident.