RESIDENT ALIEN

uring a secret mission, an extraterrestrial (Alan Tudyk, ) is stranded on Earth—in the aptly named Patience, Colorado. So he poses as small-town doctor Harry Vanderspeigle and is roped into solving a murder mystery! (His frame of reference: .) As he gets to know the townsfolk in this comedy-drama (based on the Dark Horse comic book series), “Harry begins to see their humanity,” showrunner Chris Sheridan says. “Like a child seeing the world for the first time, Harry’s own humanity grows. Does he have what it takes to destroy the very people he is beginning to care about?”