Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, ...

With any fandom, there are always specific ideas about how and why things can and should work. That can be true on an individual basis, or a global basis as the fanbase argues about “canon” – what is, ...

Noah Hawley’s new expansion to the “Alien” franchise introduces a host of new characters and concepts — and some disgusting new monsters. By Sean T. Collins The year is 2120, and the planet is ...

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 ...

I don’t know which is sloppier – the crew of the USCSS Maginot or the writing on Alien: Earth. At long last, in Episode 5, we get to see what happened aboard the Weyland-Yutani research vessel. We ...