Quick one for the weekend queue: Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, the sequel nobody can quite agree on, is heading to Peacock this month. Collider has the details, and honestly it's a nice excuse to revisit one of the strangest big-budget swings of the last decade.

I have a real soft spot for Covenant, and I know that puts me in the minority. Half the people who saw it came out angry that it wasn't an Alien movie, and the other half came out angry that it wasn't a Prometheus movie. It's both at once, kind of, and neither fully, and somehow that's exactly what makes it interesting to me. Michael Fassbender playing two androids who flirt with each other via flute lesson is one of the weirdest things a studio ever paid for. We should treasure it.

The movie picks up roughly a decade after Prometheus, with a colony ship full of couples (led by Katherine Waterston and Billy Crudup) answering a distress signal nobody should ever answer in this franchise. Danny McBride showing up in a legit dramatic role was a genuine surprise back in 2017, and he's good! The backburster scene alone still ranks among the most brutal kills in the whole series.

What makes Covenant divisive is also what makes it worth arguing about. Scott was clearly more interested in creation, faith and David's god complex than in delivering a creature-feature checklist, and the film lurches between those two modes. When it leans into the horror it's tense and grimy. When it leans into the philosophy it's cold and fascinating. It just doesn't always stitch those halves together cleanly.

But that's the Ridley Scott of it all. The man made The Martian and Alien and Blade Runner, and he also makes choices like killing off a franchise protagonist offscreen between movies. You take the whole package.

So if you've never seen it, or you saw it once in 2017 and filed it under "disappointment," this Peacock run is a good reason to give it another shot. Watch it back to back with Prometheus sometime. It plays better as a two-part weirdo tragedy than either film does alone.

No exact September date to circle on the calendar just yet beyond Collider's reporting, so keep an eye on your Peacock rows. Between this and everything else landing this month, your watchlist is getting crowded. Mine certainly is.