SummaryAn alien (Alan Tudyk) with a mission to kill humans, crashes on Earth and assumes the identity of a doctor in the small-town of Patience, Colorado in this series based on the Dark Horse comic.
SummaryAn alien (Alan Tudyk) with a mission to kill humans, crashes on Earth and assumes the identity of a doctor in the small-town of Patience, Colorado in this series based on the Dark Horse comic.
This excellent sci-fi series, which cleverly blends comedy and drama with a murder mystery, is a blast. “Resident Alien” is laugh-out-loud funny, full of heart-felt moments and, much like Harry himself, surprisingly sincere. It’s the first must-watch show of 2021.
The show is off to a great start. ... Tudyk’s performance makes Resident Alien work, but there’s a quirky-enough world around Alien Harry that the show should be more than a one-note joke.
Resident Alien was amazing, my favorite new comedy of the year so far. Alan Tudyk's performances was outstanding, he was hilarious and delivers his lines perfectly but loved that he still gave some more complex and deep moments. Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Elizabeth Bowen, Corey Reynolds, Meredith Garretson, Judah Prehn, Levi Fiehler, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, and Gary Farmer gave great supporting performances. The writing is phenomenal especially the screenplays and Alan Tudyk's lines also loved how the show dipped into more series and drama fueled moments at times. The special effects makeup on Alan Tudyk was exceptional, so cool and real looking. The visual effects were excellent. An A+ first season.
Resident Alien proves capacious in its depiction of Harry’s assimilation, too, as his callousness gradually gives way to empathy, resulting in poignant moments that ground his odyssey in deeply human experience.
When "Resident Alien" resists the urge to meander and sits with Harry's various epiphanies about the human need to belong and yearning to forge bonds with others, it glimmers with the potential to be a show that's as heartfelt and contemplative as it is dark and funny. These strengths become lost in its initial journey, but with Tudyk serving as its beacon that may not matter.
The combination of Tudyk’s otherworldly performance and Sheridan’s execution of stories running on multiple, parallel tracks make “Resident Alien” a welcome addition to the dwindling ranks of scripted basic cable originals.
It's a nice send-up of various genres, based on the Dark Horse comic books. However, it feels too slight to warrant hour-long episodes and would perhaps be snappier in half-hour bites.
The TV incarnation of Resident Alien struggles to find a consistent tone, layers in more artificial storytelling obstacles than the premise requires and only occasionally figures out how to use its appealing cast. ... After seven episodes I'd grown tired of wading through the half-dozen plotlines I didn't care about for the one or two that I did.
Alan Tudyk and the well crafted cast of characters makes a splash. He shines brightly with brilliant dialogue delivery and nuance. His supporting cast also hold their own candles. I’ve laughed out loud more than 4 times in the first episode. I highly recommend.
This show is woke, but it hides it better than most these days. However, every episode seems to have at least one or two nauseating jabs at america or western sensibilities and society and culture. And the diversity levels are unrealistically off the charts for the location.
Also, it is too quirky. Every character is quirky and it becomes distracting. This show doesn't know if it is a comedy or not, or if it is for kids or adults. You can't show it to kids due to the needless cursing and drug use for no real reason except lazy writing, but it definitely contains humor meant for adults, too.
With that being said it is obvious that many of the actors are very good, especially tudyk and the sheriff and darcy. It is just too disjointed and weird for no reason all the time while checking several woke boxes--though it clearly pushes back against this as well, so I left it in the yellow rather than the red.
Given Hollywood's strict woke requirements, I am honestly shocked something thus reasonable got made in the last 4 years.
A show like this doesn't really work, when every single character is a clichee dialed up to 11. Because then everybody is weird, not just the alien. I found it particularly confusing, when the other characters do not react to even the strangest behavior of the alien, or wave it off with a "oh you so weird", when they should be alarmed or worried.
Everything feels random, and I think that is supposed to be the joke. So if you find randomness funny, good for you, you will probably like the show. Otherwise, better skip it.
I saw all I needed to know from one episode. Tudyk's performance is fine, but nothing else about the show stands out. It's very clear that Tudyk's alien trying to get along in the human world is an attempted parallel to how autistic people navigate the world. It doesn't really work, but it's less offensive than other shows. Mostly, this show is just super boring and talks down to its audience. The characters and dialogue are real cringe. The special effects are very pedestrian. Swing and a miss.