It’s like Doctor Who, but…literal? SyFy has released the first trailer for its new show, Resident Alien, starring Alan Tudyk as an extraterrestrial who comes to a small-town to practice medicine.
The trailer shows Tudyk’s character—the convincingly named Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle—going through several ill-fated attempts to blend in with his human patients. He attends a house party, brushes his teeth face, fondles a brain or two, and takes a big juicy bite out of a glass of water. But it’s not as easy as it looks: it appears that his true space-amphibian face shows up in reflections and in the presence of children. Meanwhile, according to SyFy Wire, there’s a murder mystery brewing on the horizon…
This small-town doctor is actually from outer space. @AlanTudyk stars in #ResidentAlien, coming to #SYFY this summer. pic.twitter.com/VLZ8rfQIOv
— SYFY (@SYFY) January 16, 2020
Resident Alien premieres on SyFy this summer.
