Streaming television. After decades as one of the premiere horror movie franchises, Alien comes to TV as a new series on Hulu later this summer. Alien: Earth’s premise is fairly self-explanatory from the title: The infamous critters from Alien let loose on our planet.

We have a downed spacecraft,” begins the first trailer for Noah Hawley’s FX series Alien: Earth. “This ship collected five different life forms from the darkest corners of the universe. Monsters … Invasive species.