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Resident Alien

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Resident Alien is a science fiction series created by Chris Sheridan, based on a comic book by Peter Hogan and Steven Parkhouse, about an alien who crash lands on Earth and takes up residence in Patience, Colorado. Besides getting the mostly comic and often insightful reactions of an alien to human society, we get the reactions of the locals to the quirky alien in their midst.

The title of the series is not just a play on the idea of an alien living on Earth. Resident can be used to describe a doctor in a hospital, and our Harry, because he has assumed the form of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle on Earth, becomes the doctor for the humans living in Patience. I must also add that Patience is a homophone of patients, the people a resident doctor treats.

The series is reviewed by Victoria Grossack.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Homesick
1.3 Secrets
1.4 Birds of a Feather
1.5 Love Language
1.6 Sexy Beast
1.7 The Green Glow
1.8 End of the World as We Know It
1.9 Welcome Aliens
1.0 Heroes of Patience

Season Two

2.1 Old Friends
2.2 The Wire
2.3 Girls' Night
2.4 Radio Harry
2.5 Family Day
2.6 An Alien in New York
2.7 Escape from New York
2.8 Alien Dinner Party
2.9 Autopsy
2.10 The Ghost of Bobby Smallwood
2.11 The Weight
2.12 The Alien Within
2.13 Harry, a Parent
2.14 Cat and Mouse
2.15 Best of Enemies
2.16 I Believe in Aliens

Season Three

3.1 Lone Wolf
3.2 The Upper Hand
3.3 141 Seconds
3.4 Avian Flu
3.5 Lovebird
3.6 Bye Bye Birdie
3.7 Here Comes My Baby
3.8 Homecoming

Season Four

Season four arrives February 14, 2025.

Cast

Alan Tudyk (Harry Vanderspeigle)
Sara Tomko (Asta Twelvetrees)
Corey Reynolds (Sheriff Mike Thompson)
Alice Wetterlund (D'arcy Bloom)
Levi Fiehler (Mayor Ben Hawthorne)
Judah Prehn (Max Hawthorne)
Elizabeth Bowen (Deputy Liv Baker)