Some are aghast that Noah Hawley’s show will examine wealth, inequality and blue-collar work. But corporate greed has always been the series’ ultimate menace
For sheer horror chills, it is pretty hard to beat acid-blooded, phallic beasts from outer space that invade human bodies, impregnate them and then, for good measure, kill off their host as the offspring arrives. And yet the xenomorphs of the Alien franchise may not even deliver the saga’s most bloodcurdling moment. There is also the scene in Alien in which we realise that Ian Holm’s Ash is in fact an
Android, and that the only reason reason our heroes have been dispatched to planet LV-426 is because the head office of their corporate employer, Weyland-Yutani, reckons the creatures there might make a useful biological weapon.