Alan Tudyk plays a crime-solving alien in disguise in Resident Alien trailer

Alan Tudyk stars as an alien masquerading as a doctor in a small Colorado town in the new sci-fi dramedy Resident Alien, premiering on Syfy next month.

Geekerati icon Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Doom Patrol) plays an alien disguised as a small-town doctor who gets roped into solving murders in Resident Alien, a new sci-fi dramedy series coming to Syfy next month-finally. Based on the Dark Horse comic series created by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, the show was supposed to premiere this past summer, but coronavirus, pandemic, yada, yada, yada.

Hogan and Parkhouse started publishing the Resident Alien comics in 2012 as installments of four-issue miniseries, with the sixth and final installment forthcoming. Hogan has said he drew inspiration from Twin Peaks, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and My Favorite Martian. The story involves an alien named Harry who crash-lands on Earth and starts solving murders in the remote town of Patience, Washington, while he waits for rescue.

Harry's backstory is sprinkled throughout the miniseries in various flashbacks. He is Captain Ha Re, a biologist by training, and his special empathic abilities help him disguise his true appearance from most humans. The exceptions are the young granddaughter of a local mystery writer and Asta Twelvetrees, daughter of a Mohawk shaman, who can only partially see through the disguise and thinks Harry is a visiting spirit. Those empathic abilities also mean Harry can tell if someone is lying, so when someone in town is murdered in the first installment ("Welcome to Earth!"), he knows the police have arrested the wrong man and sets out to find the true killer.

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