[TV] SyFy - Resident Alien

[disarm]

And for those without SyFy, the new episodes are available on Peacock on Thursdays this season (along with the first two seasons).

We recently cancelled YouTube TV and get Peacock free with Xfinity internet, so being able to watch the new episodes a day later on another service works out great.

[Unagi]

And for those without SyFy, the new episodes are available on Peacock on Thursdays this season (along with the first two seasons).

We recently cancelled YouTube TV and get Peacock free with Xfinity internet, so being able to watch the new episodes a day later on another service works out great.

Season 3 is also on Bravo, it would appear.

[Daveman]

Our DVR recorded it off USA instead of SYFY for whatever reason.

[coopasonic]

I missed this thread when it first popped up apparently, but I just watched the Pilot episode. Wow. That was awesome. Tudyk can do no wrong.

[Kraken]

I wish it had started with a brief recap for those of us who can't remember TV plots and characters after a year-plus hiatus. But this isn't War & Peace so I was able to pick up the threads by the end of the episode. I chuckled when

Spoiler:

Alan Tudyk reminded the Gray that the "alien covenants" (or something like that) specify that aliens can't reveal themselves to native populations, or reveal the presence of other aliens. Apparently all the races in the galaxy identify as "aliens".

Glad this show is back.

[hepcat]

“I’m just makin’ some Judy soup.”

[hepcat]

This season is just knocking it out ofthe park for me so far.

Spoiler:

The entire bit about avoiding damaging Harry’s house in a fight with the grey alien mainly because he wanted to avoid the refrigerator repair guy who talks too much made me giggle.

[Exodor]

This season is just knocking it out ofthe park for me so far.

The first two episodes of Season 3 are so much better than anything from Season 2.

I love this show again.

[hepcat]

I didn't want to say that, but season 2 did feel like a letdown after season 1. I think taking the show outside the small town Harry lives in was a mistake. They need to keep it focused within that community of oddballs. They've built a fantastic supporting cast.

[Exodor]

I didn't want to say that, but season 2 did feel like a letdown after season 1. I think taking the show outside the small town Harry lives in was a mistake. They need to keep it focused within that community of oddballs. They've built a fantastic supporting cast.

I read somewhere that they let the actors do more improv in Season 2 - I don't know if that's true or has anything to do with the perceived decline in quality but Season 3 is a lot more funny so far. Season 2 seemed so concerned with the plot they kinda forgot the show is supposed to be funny.

[hepcat]

And episode 3 continues to bring the funny. I can’t even begin to pick a favorite line. They just came fast and furious the entire episode. Mostly from the great Tudyk, but Judy Pooper and the Sheriff got in some funny lines as well.

[Skinypupy]

I've been watching season I of this on Netflix. I really want to like it, but come away mostly feeling like it's just...ok.

Alan Tudyk absolutely knocks it out of the park (as he always does) but it feels like the show can’t figure out what it wants to be. It swings so wildly - almost jarringly - from goofball comedy to family drama to X-files mystery to rom com. Often all of the above in a 10 minute span. The supporting cast is pretty good, but I don't think I'm as enamored with all the quirky residents of Patience as everyone else seems to be.

Not sure if I’ll be interested enough for a second season, but we’ll see how this first season wraps up. I have two more episodes.

[hepcat]

I actually like the swings. The unpredictability of it is a draw for me. Although I prefer when they stay within the confines of the town and not venture too far away. That's when I think it suffers. The cast they've built, and the town itself, are just as good as the main attraction of Tudyk a lot of times.

Especially Judy.

[Unagi]

I've been watching season I of this on Netflix. I really want to like it, but come away mostly feeling like it's just...ok.

Alan Tudyk absolutely knocks it out of the park (as he always does) but it feels like the show can’t figure out what it wants to be. It swings so wildly - almost jarringly - from goofball comedy to family drama to X-files mystery to rom com.

This matched my experience exactly.
I struggled with it. I liked it and then there were things they wrote that were just sorta too 'low hanging' humor for what I thought the show was going for, and then it would move back to where I felt it was less sophomoric.
And I also did kinda enjoy that jarring feeling and didn't know if that was almost the point... but then another scene would make me think, "no, this is just unfiltered corn-ball"

I've stalled, but I plan to go back to it.

The problem with goofball (for me), is that it needs to be all goofball (maybe with a little heart - like Dumber and Dumber) for it to work. It's distracting in something that has a little more serious threads in it. Kinda like a Jew's harp, "goofball" has a lot of command when used, it's hard to use that ingredient in a complex and nuanced recipe.