Literally bringing things down to Earth, the series manages to preserve the aesthetics and feeling of "Alien" while creating a truly unique, compelling story. By the time you finish eight episodes of terror,

Alien: Earth takes place in 2120, two years before the events of the original Ridley Scott's masterpiece, Alien. This sets the show's events as occurring right before the crew of the Nostromo were intended to head back to Earth,

The new series, which premieres Aug. 12 on FX and streams on FX on Hulu, takes too long to get to its interesting parts, writes our reviewer.