The series by creator Noah Hawley is described as a spin-off to the original Ridley Scott-directed film, " Alien ," from 1979. The film follows a space crew aboard the starship, Nostromo, who are on their journey back home when they receive a distress call from an alien vessel.

The Alien franchise is finally making the leap to TV with Alien: Earth, an FX and Hulu series that takes the terrifying Xenomorphs down to Earth for the first time. It’s a big change from the usual isolated spaceships and deep-space horror we’re used to,

The episodes will be released weekly until the season finale on Sept. 23 In addition to Chandler, the cast also consists of Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Alex Lawther as Hermit, Babou Ceesay as Morrow and Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier.