This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

Hard Time on Planet Earth, a short-lived CBS series, followed Jesse, a battle-hardened alien soldier exiled to Earth as ...

Years later, FX and Disney's Alien: Earth is finally fixing one of the biggest mistakes of Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Alien: Earth wasn't a replacement for Prometheus, but it did ...