How Syfy S Resident Alien Became One Of Tv S Most Wholesome Comedies
Though the basic premise of Resident Alien will feel fairly familiar to genre viewers—an extraterrestrial forced to live in disguise as a dead human doctor named Harry Vanderspeigle contemplates whether or not to help his race kill us all—it may come as a surprise to many that the SYFY comedy is probably one of the most original and heartwarming things on-air right now. (Yes, really.) Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, the series initially appears to be the story of a dangerous alien who may or may not be plotting the human race’s doom....