Alan Tudyk is an artisan of non-humans.
Sign him up to play a droid or an anthropomorphized boat or the cartoonish embodiment of chaos and the man will deliver.
So it’s no surprise that the actor slots in perfectly as “Harry Vanderspeigle” in “Resident Alien,” the star of the latest genre-averse offering from Syfy.The scare quotes around the character’s name come from the fact that it’s hard in print to distinguish the alien of the title from the human body which he inhabits for a majority of the show.
With the erstwhile Harry’s corpse literally sits chilling in the downstairs freezer of a remote cabin, the alien that assumes his form is left to take over the duties of town doctor for the tucked-away mountain community of Patience, Colorado.It’s a premise befitting the sitcom that “Resident Alien” channels for a chunk of the series.
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