If you haven't heard, episode 5 of Alien: Earth is a banger. Director by show creator Noah Hawley, and titled "In Space, No one…" the episode flashes back to the doomed voyage of the USCSS Maginot, revealing how (most of) the crew were slaughtered by our old pal the Xenomorph, and a menagerie of extraterrestrial nasties, as well as providing crucial new backstory for Morrow (Babou Ceesay).
Consciously evoking the iconic 'haunted house in space' of Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi horror Alien, the Maginot is a stunning time capsule from the past. Conceived and built by Alien: Earth production designer Andy Nicholson and his team on soundstages in Thailand (where the bulk of the show was shot), the Maginot looked so authentic that Scott had just two words upon seeing pictures from the set: "Fuck me."
