Alan Tudyk leads Sky’s pleasing new dramedy about an extraterrestrial on a mission to wipe out humanity
Are you in need of some fun? Some escapism? Not entirely frivolous, not running entirely counter to international mood, but something that nevertheless offers some distraction, a break in the clouds? I hardly see how you cannot be. (Although if you cannot, please do send the secret of your impregnable insouciance to the usual address – thank you).
Let me lead the needy majority by the hand to Sky One’s latest offering: a sci-fi-tinted series called Resident Alien, starring the mighty Alan Tudyk as a visitor from outer space who has crash landed just outside the tiny town of Patience, Colorado, killed the owner of the first fishing cabin he came across, thrown him into the nearest frozen lake and assumed – via molecular reconstruction – the poor fellow’s appearance and identity. This, we learn, is in order to give himself time to find the device lost in the crash (ideally before the thaw that will let the bloated corpse bob to the surface and rather give the intergalactic game away) that will allow him to complete his mission. His mission is to wipe out humanity. Hello, premise! How are you, a not entirely novel incarnation of such a thing within the SF genre, going to unfold?
