Resident Alien
“Beam this up.”
Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”
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A small-town doctor hides his extraterrestrial identity — and his secret mission — while looking for his lost ship and trying to blend in.
1.Pilot
7.827-01-202146mStranded in the town of Patience, Colorado, an alien inhabits the body of Dr. Harry Venderspeigle — but one resident can see past his façade.
2.Homesick
7.503-02-202144mIn his first week at the clinic, Harry struggles to diagnose a strange feeling: human emotion.
3.Secrets
7.510-02-202144mHarry races to keep his secret safe as Asta is forced to face her own past.
4.Birds of a Feather
7.517-02-202145mHarry travels to the Ute Reservation to help Asta's grandmother, and along the way, learns what it means to belong to a community.
5.Love Language
7.924-02-202146mA surprise visitor gives Harry an introduction to marriage, a stressful human institution he needs to familiarize himself with.
6.Sexy Beast
7.303-03-202146mHarry copes with jealousy when the mayor hires an annoyingly perfect new town doctor.
7.The Green Glow
7.810-03-202146mAfter he makes a mess of his human life, a depressed Harry gets drunk. Liv quits the force when Mike fails to credit her for solving a crime.
8.End of the World as We Know It
8.117-03-202145mAsta saves a badly injured Harry after they fall into a glacial crevasse — and in the process learns a shocking secret.
9.Welcome Aliens
7.924-03-202146mTo repair his planet-killing device, Harry visits an alien convention to harvest implants from UFO abductees. Mike asks Liv to rejoin the department.
10.Heroes of Patience
7.931-03-202146mBrokenhearted when Asta ends their friendship after discovering the real Harry’s fate, the alien decides to fulfill his original mission.
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