THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
2020 WAS A NIGHTMARE year, made worse by humanity’s cumulative stupidity, so maybe what we truly deserve in 2021 is an alien invasion that wipes us all out. The new Syfy series Resident Alien, based on the Dark Horse comics created by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, pretty much offers that scenario, albeit with a much funnier outcome.
Toplining a TV series for the first time, actor Alan Tudyk (Wash in ) essentially takes on something of a dual role in the show. On the face of it, he’s Harry Vanderspeigle, a doctor in rural Patience, Colorado. But at the same time, he’s also playing the alien who accidentally crash-landed on Earth, murdered poor Harry, and now walks around with the doc’s likeness pretending to be him. The alien
