In the hilarious teaser for Episode 2 of SYFY s
Resident Alien, the alien masquerading as Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) starts seeing patients and metaphorically bashing them over the head with such medical questions as: Concerning your breath, did you recently eat a dead rodent? In addition, Harry s got to contend with Max (Judah Prehn), the young boy who can see right through his fleshy disguise. Far from trying to establish a rapport with the kid who can blow his cover, the alien threatens to eat Max.
Elsewhere, Sheriff Mike Thompson (Corey Reynolds) and Deputy Liv Baker (Elizabeth Bowen) are starting their investigation into Sam Hodges murder. But that mystery pales in comparison to Harry s plan to murder the entire human race . if he can find his doomsday device, that is.
Watch By Allison Skornick-Rose, Jan 27, 2021 07:34 PM EST Tudyk is a seasoned actor who has chameleon-like skills allowing him to morph into numerous characters and these skills are readily apparent in Resident Alien.
If there was a trivia question about an actor with a familiar face who has been in tons of movies but whose name people always seem to forget, the answer would inevitably be Stanley Tucci (
The Devil Wears Prada). Second place, however, would go to the 49-year-old actor – Alan Tudyk (
Firefly). Tudyk, much like Tucci, has been in over 100 films/television shows but never in the leading role…until now. This week SyFy will premiere the new comedy/drama (based on a 2012 comic book series of the same name) called
Alan Tudyk invented new alien antics for Resident Alien
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Alan Tudyk stars as an alien hiding out in a small town in Resident Alien. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Alan Tudyk plays Harry Vanderspeigle, the human form of an alien. Photo courtesy of Syfy
Max (Judah Prehn, left) can see Harry (Alan Tudyk) in his alien form. Photo courtesy of Syfy
Sheriff Mike (Corey Reynolds, left) questions Harry (Alan Tudyk, right) as Asta (Sara Tomko) looks on. Photo courtesy of Syfy
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (UPI) Actor Alan Tudyk has experience playing robots and aliens in science-fiction movies, but playing an alien pretending to be human in his new TV show,
My Favorite Martian, Mork & Mindy, ALF
and
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1. Darker Take On The Main Character: This alien is assigned with destroying the human race.
2. Darker Premise: The alien in question has crash-landed near the tiny Colorado town of Patience, where he has secretly murdered and assumed the form of a reclusive doctor. He soon gets dragged into the town s business, however, when its local physician is found murdered. (Not the doctor whom the alien murdered, you follow? Entirely different doctor.)
3. Format: SYFY s
Resident Alien, based on a Dark Horse Comics series by writer Peter Hogan and artist Steve Parkhouse, is not a classic sitcom, but an hourlong comedy/drama. (This first season is made up of ten episodes, the first seven of which were made available to press.)