Resident Alien

Against all the odds, this is so good! And so funny! The acting, the setting, the script. It's all good. Did I mention its fun! There nothing else to say. Watch it. Oh yeah!

I think this is the first show on syfy that i really started to follow.it is not the best show ever made, but the truth is that it has its charm. All of the characters are likeable. I didnt fine hugely funny except for the police guy and obviously the alien. A great work by alan tudyk by the way.

The think is: everyone is likeable. The plotlines i found them interesting to follow. I liked the small town vibe and the show doesnt takes itself very seriously which is a good thing. But the best part is that they really made an effort on making connections with all of those characters. This is not only a show about the alien but about the town where we lives.

It could be easy to have all the other characters feel boring. None of them does. It is a very cool tv show and i am glad they renewed it. I will surely wait for season 2.

If it wasn't for him the dark humour would be too dark. But his portrayal is so good that even in these dark times it seems lighter than it is. Thanks for this show. Please don't cancel it Syfy. Also bring back deadly class thank you.

I missed this show when it was in its first run but now am able to watch episodes streaming on NBC's Peacock service. This show is comedy gold, precisely because of Alan Tudyk in the role of the alien. He is sent to Earth on a mission, he crashes, and by luck takes on the form of a local town man who owns a cabin by the frozen lake. Then the town doctor is found dead and he is pressed into acting as town doctor even though he doesn't know anything about being a doctor. His nemesis becomes the young boy in town who actually sees him as the alien he is.

Filmed in the beautiful Canada mountains, it is set in the fictional town of Patience, Colorado. The alien says he is from a planet around a star 46 light years away. For anyone not familiar with the size of our Milky Way galaxy, it is roughly 110,000 light years across so there are many stars within the 45 to 50 light year range.

In addition to Tudyk's performance what makes this such a good and interesting series is the writing. It is very inventive and very funny, especially the way Tudyk plays his character, a very direct person with no intended humor at all, which turns out to be very humorous. There are also some good human drama issues among the normal human characters.

I gathered from some reviews that season #2 isn't as good. I don't share that opinion. Where season 1 focused on the alien getting used to Earthling ways, season 2 focuses on him starting to become more human-like as more and more around him discover his true identity. The writing remains excellent and just when you think there are no more surprises, you get more surprises. To me one of the better series in recent years, highly interesting and entertaining. Even though most actors, other than Tudyk, are not well-known each creates an interesting character.

I'm so glad that Resident Alien has gained such an audience. The word of mouth for this show has been great and the reason why we keep getting more great show seasons. Season 2 kind of strayed away from the comedy that made Season 1 so good, it was still funny but they changed the show a little too much. Season 3 returned to the hilarious show it was in the first season. Netflix recently picked this show up and it immediately became a worldwide hit. It was in the Top10 as soon as it came out and stayed there for a few months. Hopefully with its new found audience this show will continue for several more seasons. Alan Tudyk is such an underrated actor. He's funny in just about everything he does and this role is probably his best yet. There are plenty of other great characters but my next favorite is easily Sheriff Thompson, played by Corey Reynolds. He is absolutely hilarious in every scene he's in. You won't regret watching this hilarious show.