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'Resident Alien': TV Review

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The new Syfy dramedy Resident Alien seems like it ought to be a very simple show. Perhaps in a good way. The title is, of course, a play on legal terminology referring to lawfully registered immigrants residing in the country.

Make that alien a literal extraterrestrial and you have a really clean premise for a show, one that isn't exactly revolutionary.

From Roswell to V to Alien Nation to ALF to The Neighbors, the alien-as-immigrant allegory is familiar and resilient stuff. Why, then, does Resident Alien make it look so darned complicated?

Even with Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse's Dark Horse comic as source material, the TV incarnation of Resident Alien struggles to find a consistent tone, layers in more artificial storytelling obstacles.

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