Disney+ features a new adaptation of Ridley Scott's classic Alien franchise, now set on Earth. The aliens are presented as updated nightmare fuel, leaving behind beautiful tableaux of destruction. The finale of And Just Like That shows a midlife spin-off conclusion, described as an underwhelming end. A documentary on The Biggest Loser highlights the disturbing elements of the reality show, while In Flight explores a flight attendant's harrowing situation involving drug smuggling to protect her son.
These aliens are the classic nightmare fuel updated and sharpened and, when they strike, they leave behind the sort of oddly beautiful tableaux of torn corpses we haven't seen since Hannibal.
The weirdest reboot of them all ended with a whimper, as though the anaesthetic was finally wearing off and we were all collectively coming to.
The stories it tells are powerful enough to stick in the memory, as warnings from recent history.
The claustrophobic nature of it all, the endangerment of hapless innocents and the reminder of the evil that spreads untrammelled across space and history are a cluster of superb selling points.
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