The fictional town of Patience, Colorado is — to quote the
South Park movie from 1999 — a “quiet mountain town.” It’s a picturesque slice of Americana surrounded by snow-capped mountains, crystal clear lakes…and an alien pretending to be a human physician.
In other words, it’s the perfect setting for SYFY’s
Resident Alien adaptation, which didn’t shoot in Colorado. “In real life, it was based here in Vancouver. That’s where 90 percent of the filming took place,” location manager Ken Brooker tells SYFY WIRE. “It’s where we had our stages; we had two sound stages and a handful of locations. We shot 10 episodes, so on average, each episode probably had about a dozen or so locations within it.”