There's "a great equalizer," Hawley points out, in the first episode of Alien: Earth. Kirsch ( Timothy Olyphant ), a synthetic, tells one of his hybrid charges, Wendy (Sydney Chandler), how humans used to be food but convinced themselves otherwise when they formed civilization. They're now being reminded to rethink that mindset.

Earth," the creepiest being that the series has to offer isn't an entity from beyond the stars -- it's Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a hybrid synthetic who bears the consciousness of a dead child. Watching her behave like a kid who's totally bewildered by adult concepts and realizing she's about to be sent out to investigate a shipload of deadly creatures is undeniably unsettling,

Noah Hawley, creator of FX's "Fargo" and trippy X-Men series "Legion," fundamentally understands what makes the aliens of "Alien" scary, and what makes the world Scott created so enticing to return to for film after film.