{"id":13117,"date":"2021-10-05T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:51:26","slug":"resident-alien-one-of-the-funniest-shows-about-destroying-the-entire-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/resident-alien-one-of-the-funniest-shows-about-destroying-the-entire-human-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Alien: \u201cOne Of The Funniest Shows\u2026 About Destroying The Entire Human Race\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Showmax_black.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Showmax_black.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3061\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Resident Alien<\/em>, the sci-fi murder-mystery doctor-dramedy Earth needs now, has crash landed on Showmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resident Alien | Showmax\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYx-RKItwqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmy nominee Alan Tudyk (Hoban \u201cWash\u201d Washburne in <em>F<\/em><em>irefly <\/em>and <em>Serenity<\/em>) stars as an alien trying to pass himself off as small-town human doctor Harry Vanderspiegel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Harry sees it, \u201cTo say my species is more advanced than humans would be a massive understatement. If the universe had a scale for intelligence, humans would land right below lizards.\u201d But learning \u201chow to human\u201d \u2013 mostly from reruns of old <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> episodes \u2013 isn\u2019t as easy as a superior species might assume.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Harry assimilates into his new world, while trying to solve a murder, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission to wipe out humanity. He is soon asking big life questions like: &#8220;Are human beings worth saving?&#8221; and &#8220;Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the Dark Horse comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, <em>Resident Alien <\/em>won Best Cable Series: Comedy at the 2021 Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Large-Square-JPG-Resident-Alien-S1.jpeg?resize=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you\u2019re not a <em>Firefly<\/em> fan, you\u2019ll recognise Tudyk from his support roles in the likes of <em>Knocked Up<\/em>, <em>DodgeBall <\/em>and <em>A Knight\u2019s Tale, <\/em>as well as his Screen Actors\u2019 Guild Award-nominated performances in <em>3:10 to Yuma<\/em> and <em>Trumbo<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in many of his most iconic roles, you don\u2019t even see his face: from his motion-capture performances as K-2SO in <em>Rogue One<\/em> and the robot, Sonny, in <em>I, Robot<\/em>, to his voice-over work on the likes of <em>Frozen<\/em>, <em>Zootopia<\/em>, <em>Wreck-It Ralph<\/em>, <em>Raya and the Last Dragon<\/em> and <em>Moana (<\/em>he was Heihei the chicken).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlan Tudyk is amazing,\u201d says Sheridan. \u201cI thought I knew what I was looking for in the alien, and it wasn\u2019t until Alan came in that I knew what the character was&#8230;. Behind the scenes, there\u2019s a transformation that takes place. You\u2019ll be talking to him and he\u2019ll just seem like a normal guy and then, the second the camera starts rolling, this look comes over his face, and without doing anything, he looks like a different person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as wonderful as Tudyk is, the series thankfully doesn\u2019t hang its entire premise on the awkwardly hunched shoulders of one undercover alien. In adapting the comic book, Sheridan told <em>Variety<\/em> his goal \u201cwas to figure out what the show would be\u2026 if the alien never showed up \u2014 that there were characters who were interesting and funny and quirky and had their own journeys.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result, says co-star Sara Tomko (<em>Once Upon A Time<\/em>), is \u201can exploration of what it is to be \u2018other\u2019&#8230; a small town family drama that happens to have an alien.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Screen Actors Guild nominee Corey Reynolds (<em>The Closer<\/em>), Alice Wetterlund (<em>Silicon Valley<\/em>) and Levi Fiehler (<em>The Fosters<\/em>) co-star as the residents of Patience, Colorado, while guest stars include Emmy nominee Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor in <em>The Terminator<\/em> movies), Emmy winner Terry O\u2019Quinn (John Locke from <em>Lost<\/em>), and Tudyk\u2019s <em>Firefly<\/em> co-star, People\u2019s Choice Award winner Nathan Fillion (<em>Castle<\/em>, <em>The Rookie<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverybody in the town is kind of stuck on their own stuff,\u201d Wetterlund explains. \u201cThey don\u2019t really notice that this guy is completely abnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Tudyk, that abnormal quickly grows on you. \u201cHarry has this innocence about him where he\u2019s trying to do his job, and at the same time, trying to learn how to be human, which, as we all know, is a complicated concept,\u201d says Tomko.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human-Harry\u2019s facial contortions conjure precisely the uncanny valley you\u2019d expect from a face recently donned by an alien who hasn\u2019t quite figured out how to operate it yet. This is a feat in itself, but, as <em>IMDb<\/em> says, \u201cit\u2019s the way he slowly <em>becomes<\/em> human, at an emotional level, that makes this series one of a kind.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think people are going to enjoy experiencing this world through Harry\u2019s eyes,\u201d Tudyk says dryly, \u201c&#8230;\u2018cause they\u2019re alien eyes&#8230; they\u2019re very large.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Season 2 has already been greenlit, with three-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein (<em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em>\u2019s Susie Myerson) joining the cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add<em> Resident Alien<\/em> to your Showmax watchlist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/tvseries\/of48e651-resident-alien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/tvseries\/of48e651-resident-alien<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Alien, the sci-fi murder-mystery doctor-dramedy Earth needs now, has crash landed on Showmax. Emmy nominee Alan Tudyk (Hoban \u201cWash\u201d Washburne in Firefly and Serenity) stars as an alien trying to pass himself off as small-town human doctor Harry Vanderspiegel.&nbsp; As Harry sees it, \u201cTo say my species is more advanced than humans would be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/resident-alien-one-of-the-funniest-shows-about-destroying-the-entire-human-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resident Alien: \u201cOne Of The Funniest Shows\u2026 About Destroying The Entire Human Race\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-13117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}