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[The Brain]

 

This looks interesting:

 

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2 hours ago, The Brain said:

 

This looks interesting:

 

I agree. And especially since it stars Alan Tudyk.

Looks like it is based on a Dark Horse comic book series.

Resident Alien (comics)

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Resident Alien is a comic book series created by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse. The series has been published by Dark Horse Comics in installments of four-issue miniseries since 2012. Five miniseries have been completed, and a concluding sixth miniseries is forthcoming. A television adaptation for Syfy starring Alan Tudyk will premiere in January 2021.

 

The story is about an alien who crash lands on Earth, then poses as a doctor while he awaits a rescue. He is pursued by a government agency and passes his time solving murders and other mysteries. The series has received positive reviews from critics, particularly for Parkhouse's ability to draw expressions.

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Things Resident Alien has in common with previous television series like My Favorite Martian, Mork & Mindy, ALF and 3rd Rock from the Sun:

1. Main Character: An alien (or aliens).

2. Premise: The alien/s in question is/are on Earth, attempting to pass as human.

3. Reasons Hijinks Ensue: See 2., above.

 

Things That Set Resident Alien far, far apart from previous television series like My Favorite Martian, Mork & Mindy, ALF and 3rd Rock from the Sun:

1. Darker Take On The Main Character: This alien is assigned with destroying the human race.

2. Darker Premise: The alien in question has crash-landed near the tiny Colorado town of Patience, where he has secretly murdered and assumed the form of a reclusive doctor. He soon gets dragged into the town's business, however, when its local physician is found murdered. (Not the doctor whom the alien murdered, you follow? Entirely different doctor.)

3. Format: SYFY's Resident Alien, based on a Dark Horse Comics series by writer Peter Hogan and artist Steve Parkhouse, is not a classic sitcom, but an hourlong comedy/drama. (This first season is made up of ten episodes, the first seven of which were made available to press.)

4. Episodic Narrative Structure: Over the course of the season, the alien attempts to: avoid detection by assuming the role of town doctor; secretly search for his missing ship and its doomsday device (which is lost somewhere under the snow of a glacier near his cabin); deal with a young moppet (Judah Prehn) who can see his true form; ingratiate himself with the locals and, grudgingly; investigate the murder of the previous town doctor. As all this happens, the relationships of those around him deepen, and complicate, because ...

5. A Robust Ensemble Cast: Writer Chris Sheridan, who adapted the comic, has taken steps to ensure that Resident Alien will not fall into the familiar alien-on-Earth sitcom trap wherein the supporting cast exists solely to stand passively by, grinning, alternately amused and bemused by the central alien's antics. Instead, the residents of Patience prove a tight-knit community of women and men whose existing interpersonal histories, relationships and emotional layers gradually reveal themselves. Thus we get scenes between clinic nurse Asta (Sara Tomko) and local bartender D'Arcy (an effortlessly funny Alice Wetterlund) that have little to do with the show's A-plot, but feel warm and sharp and utterly natural. An abrasive local sheriff (Corey Reynolds) snipes at his long-suffering deputy (Elizabeth Bowen, whose slow-burn exasperation is a weapon the show employs deftly, to great effect). And Levi Fiehler, as the town's young, idealistic mayor, makes a meal out of nervously questioning, in muttered asides, nearly everything that is said and done to him.

 

[Beige]

Alan Tudyk is such an under-rated actor.

Absolutely brilliant in 'A Knights Tale' and 'Firefly / Serenity'

Deserves more acclaim IMHO

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7 minutes ago, Beige said:

Alan Tudyk is such an under-rated actor.

Absolutely brilliant in 'A Knights Tale' and 'Firefly / Serenity'

Deserves more acclaim IMHO

He was nutty fun in Doom Patrol and as Harley Quinn's Joker fit the role perfect.

 

[D84]

Anyone watch it last night? I forgot.

[The Brain]

Just finished watching it.

The humor is very wry. There is an innocence to the lead actor,

as well as the pace of the story telling. It mixes genres well ( you need to watch it )

and the actors are engaging. 

[Comicopolis]

Watched the first episode tonight and loved it - one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Hilarious but also quite dark.

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12 hours ago, Comicopolis said:

Watched the first episode tonight and loved it - one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Hilarious but also quite dark.

Have to agree! 

When he looks up certain terms online to understand what they mean his reactions were hilarious. 

And I agree. The dark humor element throughout keeps it from just being another satire or comedy show. 

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Despite so many turds SciFi channel has put out, I actually loved this first episode. I’m down for the whole season.

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'Resident Alien' Renewed for Season 2 at Syfy

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Resident Alien is staying in house.

 

Syfy has handed out a second season renewal for the dramedy starring Alan Tudyk. The news comes as the 10-episode series based on the Dark Horse comics of the same name is inching toward its March 31 season finale — and three years after the project was first developed by an executive regime that is no longer at the NBCUniversal-owned cable network.

 

In announcing the pickup, Syfy noted the series ranks as Syfy's highest-rated new drama in more than six years. (It's also one of very few originals Syfy has launched in the past few years that haven't been low-cost acquisitions.) The basic cable network, which is now overseen as part of a content group that also includes Peacock, NBC, USA and Bravo (among others), says the Jan. 27 premiere pulled in 9.3 million total viewers across all platforms. (Streamer Peacock is home to the first three episodes, with additional installments arriving Fridays.)

 

"With Resident Alien, everything just came together in perfect harmony — a -script by Chris Sheridan that leapt off the page, a lead performance by Alan Tudyk, whose nuance between comedy and menace was pitch perfect, and a team of producers, cast and crew who were all striving to do something great," said president of scripted content for NBCUniversal TV and streaming Lisa Katz. "The appeal of this show transcended the sci-fi genre in a way that enabled us to bring in a broader audience, and as the series continues we hope to encourage more and more fans to discover Harry’s very particular perspective on humans."

 

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He's back!

 

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As unbelievable as it seems, fans are already in the back half of Resident Alien's second season. The series, which stars Firefly and Doom Patrol actor Alan Tudyk as an alien who crash-landed on Earth and is impersonating a human while planning an invasion of the planet, airs Wednesdays on Syfy, and Tudyk is clearly in his element. Playing Harry gives him a chance to do lots of comedy, but with a little pathos, and to play a villainous character that the viewers can't really bring themselves to hate. It's a bit of everything for an actor.

 

Harry as an actual character, though? He would be hard to get along with. So we asked Tudyk which of his numerous larger-than-life characters he would have meet Harry if time, money, and all the other variables were thrown out, and such a thing was possible.

 

"Wash from Firefly, just because then Wash is alive," Tudyk joked, referring to the character whose death in the Serenity movie broke fans' hearts. 

 

[Beige]

Tudyk is such an under-rated actor.

From Knights Tale to Firefly - the guy always delivers

[Beige]

That sucks