In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. In lesser hands, a series spinoff of the theatrical “Alien” franchise might seem like just another IP play — a money grab.

The description “genre-defying” gets thrown around a lot these days – it is a convenient sticking plaster for any film or series that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be. That said, it is an ...