In these chaotic times with a global pandemic as backdrop to ongoing protests about racial inequality and police brutality it's the HBO miniseries Chernobyl that keeps returning to mind.
When it comes to adaptations, especially ones where the remake/adaptation is better known, the risk is that a further remake is based on an earlier adaptation instead of going back to the original.
Alien Nation, having been released by 20th Century Fox, had enough going for it to make the jump to the small screen, becoming a science fiction police procedural.
