Should you watch Resident Alien?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Resident Alien
Series · 2021
Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”
The sides of Resident Alien
- An alien posing as a small-town doctor
- A murder in a Colorado mountain town
- A secret mission to wipe out humanity
Resident Alien is good for you if…
- you like an alien who studies humans and gets everything slightly wrong.
- you laugh at a hero whose first plan is to kill everyone on Earth.
- you like aliens, a talking octopus and small-town gossip in the same show.
Resident Alien is bad for you if…
- you need the science fiction to hold up to scrutiny.
- you roll your eyes when a cold alien slowly learns to care about people.
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