Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. First of all, no, Alien: Earth is not a nature documentary.

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

After watching the latest episode of Hulu’s Alien: Earth, I posted on social media: “Every single plot point in Alien: Earth is built on characters making stupid choices, often while in circumstances ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

It doesn’t take long for the monsters to appear in the new series “Alien: Earth.” In fact, they’re the same ones that first started terrorizing Sigourney Weaver when the “Alien” franchise began in ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...