Alan Tudyk plays an alien who takes over the body of a doctor in the Colorado-set sci-fi series “Resident Alien,” which in Feb. premiered on Netflix after 2 seasons on Syfy. When the first two seasons of “Resident Alien” premiered on Netflix on Feb. 13, star Alan Tudyk could only guess at how audiences would react.
In the case of “Resident Alien,” the show instantly reached the No. 1 spot in daily TV viewings and has stayed in the Top Ten each day since its Netflix premiere. It coincided with the Feb. 14 release of “Resident Alien’s” Season 3 on the Syfy network — with each new episode streaming the next day on Peacock — to generate fresh attention and praise for a show that considers what it means to be an outsider.
In “Resident Alien,” the versatile Tudyk plays a space alien named Harry who crash-landed in Colorado with the mission of destroying humanity. That quickly gets complicated as he absorbs the town’s culture and forms various alliances, eventually working to save the town of Patience amid the arrival of more aliens like him .
Alan Tudyk, center, stars as a space alien sent to destroy the planet in “Resident Alien,” set in the fictional Colorado mountain town of Patience. “She like an owl, if an owl could be sexy,” Tudyk said with a laugh. “The commitment to the characters is great, and she’s giving it 100%. This woman is so next-level so funny that when we were casting this I said, ‘Please!’ The character was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the universe, but there’s another way to cast it that would be more actress-y and less model-y. So I’m glad the emphasis is on the comedy.