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Living on the Edge of Acceptance
An alien, a little boy, and a lot of self discovery
If you’ve ever been the new kid at school, or new in town, then you know the feeling. You don’t know anyone; the social interactions are awkward. You have to learn the local jargon, how people talk and behave with one another, and so many things that you don’t understand. You know it’s going to take a while before you get used to things, but in the meantime, your internal monologue tells you that you don’t have much of a choice.
That’s the premise of a new show streaming on Peacock called Resident Alien. What appears to be a typical alien story ends up being so much more. Several episodes in, I am obsessed. Starring Alan Tudyk and Sara Tomko, Resident Alien tells the story of an alien who crash landed on Earth with a mission to destroy everyone on it. Unfortunately, the pieces of a spacecraft that the alien arrives with gets lost and landed somewhere in a remote part of Colorado, hidden beneath all the snow.
Enter a small town called Patience, Colorado, where everyone knows each other and everyone’s business. It’s a quaint little town with (surprisingly) a lot of diversity. It has the cute, small town look that you might expect a small town to have — colorful, historic buildings, outdoor benches and cafes, and best of all, access to a great lake and…
