Here is everything you need to know about the stars of "Alien: Earth" and the characters they play in the FX sci-fi series.

"Alien: Earth" is Noah Hawley's latest silver-to-small screen project. But if you want to watch all the film entries which preceded it, here's what you need to know.

For showrunner Noah Hawley, the challenge of Alien: Earth wasn’t just bringing one of sci-fi’s most iconic monsters—the Xenomorph—to television for the first time; it was making sure the FX prequel series, which is set before Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien, wasn’t only about the monster.