Last month, I posted a rant about a tv show that really ticked me off. Today, I’m posting a rave. I love, love, love the show RESIDENT ALIEN. The first two seasons are streaming on Netflix, and season 3 is on Syfy and Hulu. For me, this show is the perfect mixture of funny, witty, and ridiculous, with a dash of heartwarming thrown in, too. The premise is that an alien crash-landed into a small Colorado mountain town, and now has to fake being human while trying to find his ship and complete his mission.
If you’re looking for realistic, look elsewhere. If you want to laugh at quirky characters while leaning into the silliness, step right up.
Alan Tudyk plays Harry the alien, and he is comic gold in the role. Among his many quirks, Harry can’t stop quoting LAW AND ORDER because binge-watching it is how he learned English. But while I love Tudyk’s portrayal of an alien trying to fake being a human while inevitably “catching” human emotions like they’re an infection, I also love how well fleshed-out the side characters are. They really dig into their personalities and backgrounds, which carries the story forward, and can I give a “hell-yeah!” to all the female friendships?? I’m really hoping for a season 4 because this show is my brain candy, and what can I say? I’m a candy-holic.
Here’s the official trailer for season one, which has a slighter darker tone than the show actually has, imo:
Now, I promised you a contest, and I’m here to deliver! Once again, I’m giving away two prizes. And, to make my gushing about RESIDENT ALIEN relevant, just leave a reply telling me what TV show that YOU love. You don’t have to go into detail like I did, of course, unless you just want to rave about it, too. Each person who replies with their favorite TV show will be entered to win one of the two below prizes.
The first prize is a $15 Amazon egift card (open to US readers only.)
The second prize is any book from my backlist, winner’s choice which. This part is open to international readers as well as US readers. See all of my books HERE.
Contest starts NOW and ends Thursday, May 24th at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced on my blog the next day.
ALSO, if you want to chat with me live tomorrow (Saturday the 18th) on video, I’m meeting up at 5pm Eastern time on the Frost Fans Discord channel. You can sign up and join the chat HERE.
Good luck, and hope to see some of you online at the chat tomorrow!
Supernatural is my favorite tv show.
It’s my comfort show.
The Magicians is one of my favorites, next to Friends!
Brooklyn 99 is my absolutely favorite comedy TV show. It’s just mindless good humor. Rip Andre braugher.
I have liked Resident Alien all the way back from the debut to the present season. Harry is the shizz!
Jeaniene, thanks for the tv show recommendation! I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Murdoch Mysteries, Hudson & Rex plus The Good Doctor.
Comfort show? Supernatural and the first couple seasons of Angel before all that Cordelia misstep. Lucifer the first couple of seasons. I am so over reality Comfort book, Cat and Bones.
I just watched a kdrama called My Dearest that i absolutely loved! It’s a period drama during 17th century Korea AND a romance. One of the best ones I’ve watched in a long time!
My favorite show is “As Time Goes By” on PBS and “Amazing Race” on CBS.
Stargate is one of my favorites, as are Buffy, Resident Alien, and Doctor Who. Hmmmm. Can anyone see a theme here? 😋
Buffy the vampire slayer, Married with children, The Nanny
I love Resident alien, but my favorite show is Stargate SG-1. It’s my comfort show, I love the mythological twist of it, the writing, and the storyline. It’s such a fun show and the spinoff shows are great, too.
Supernatural is what I was going to say also. 15 seasons of dedication.
Well I’m truly nerdy and I absolutely love an old min series of the 90s not many people seem to remember but I quote from it often and that would be 10th Kingdom.
It’s my favorite guilty pleasure.
I have so many shows that I love! The Wire is an all-time favorite but it’s not always an easy watch. A comfort watch will always be Schitts Creek. But also Letterkenny.
Right now I’m bing watching British murder shows Midsommer Murders, Silent Witness, Body Farm, Angelas Ashes, and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
I feel like my answer to this changes with whatever I’m binging. Currently it’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer!! I’m rewatching and reliving my younger years.
Cat and Bones would be a great tv duo!!!!!
I love the new show Tracker. Some of my older fav’s are veronica mars and buffy and angel.
Growing up, it was Buffy TVS, but in the last few years I’ve rewatched Stargate Atlantis a few times.
The ORIGINAL Charmed (back from the WB) is one of my fave shows of all time. Followed closely by Bones, Buffy and Angel. But I binged Resident Alien last month and now it ranks pretty high up there! Love that show too! It’s so hard to choose just one! Haha!
I love NCIS and have been watching since the beginning. I also love Criminal Minds. Anything mysteryish and suspenseful.
Deadly women
Doctor Who!
My favorite show right now is Yellowstone
I love Friends! So funny.
My favorite show of all time is Degrassi! I wish it would get rebooted again.
My favorite TV show is Supernatural.
Right now I’m obsessed with Resident Alien too! I’m midway through season 2 and I love it so much!
Im living Killing Eve right now! But overall my fav is the classic Friends!
This is hard! I really like Good Girls.
I legitimately don’t know how I can just pick one. Doctor Who and Firefly are both way up there, but totally not in the same vein, so it Ted Lasso!!
I would have to say my favorite TV series (thus far) is the Chosen. They’re working on season 4 right now, but the first three seasons are absolutely incredible! I like it because of how much I can relate to specific characters! I also love the fact that the series is based on true events that occurred, but they put a more modern spin on it to really get people engaged in the show!
Love Eureka and I totally rewatch it so the time
I just finished my rewatch of Eureka!
I like Warehouse 13 as well
my son keep asking us to put warehouse 13 on again so he can finish it , lol he is 10
My husband and I are watching Resident Alien now and LOVE the show – probably in our top 5 faves. The characters are so well written, the plot just complex enough and evolving, and Alan Tudyk is such a phenomenal actor.
We really enjoy the Good Place as well!
The first one that came to my mind is “Lucifer” 🖤
My mom loves Resident Alien… A show I love that I keep rewatching is the Star Trek series… I have been binging Voyager lately.
I can rave about so many shows , it all really depends on my mood for what i watch , i have so many favorite’s . i went old school a few months ago and watch forever knight it a great older Vampire show, also Haven from syfy as well , but prime pulled it again sadly. i have been in a old school kick trying to rewatch , shows from my younger days , i just turned 40 on the 3rd of this month . Highlander is big favorite , walker texas ranger , i wish i could get this on streaming La Femme Nikita, i watch it as a tween loved the story line . i still need to finish charmed, and buffy and angel . but there are so many .
My absolute favorite is the vampire series called “The Originals”. The characters are extremely well developed and intense. The family relationships are complicated, extremely volatile but also rooted in deep love. A really great series!
My favorite tv show is Heartland because of how real the family stories are and how the family deals with them.
I love the Vampire Diaries and The Originals. I can’t count on one hand how many times I’ve rewatched this show! I’ve always been big into vampires!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer will always be my favorite show! Not only is it awesome with action, spunk and girl power but it’s special because it brought me and my mother closer. 🥰 She had a thing for Spike while I liked Angel 😂 We still binge watch it together!! That and Charmed 😁
I’ve really been digging Will Trent
I have several that I always watch. All the NCIS shows, Survivor, The Voice, Reacher, Bridgerton and that’s just a few!
I am really into Fallout at the moment.
Right now I’m loving Abbott Elementary. I recently retired and started as a sub in a local school and find it hilarious.
I’m loving Resident Alien and recommending it all the time.
Just finished a rewatch of Brooklyn 99 and love it more and more each time.
Loved Mindhunter, but I also enjoy Bridgerton, Doctor Who, and Big Brother. A bit all over the place in tastes
Favorite show since I’ve been flowing it forever is the challenge on MTV.
I’m a sucker for competition reality tv in the background while I work! I have JUST discovered Face Off and omg it’s so good!
Station 19, which sadly is not coming back after this season.
CSI
Love, love, love, Modern Family. When I veg out, this is the show I binge.
My favorite tv shows are Schitts Creek, Picard, and Obi-Wan right now. I judge that by how many times I rewatch them since they came out. Whenever I don’t know what I want to watch, I land on one of these.
There are too many to name! I love the big bang theory, revenge, the office, grace and frankie and Seinfeld to name a few!
Favorite is tough. I do love Resident Alien, and I’ve been enjoying Star Trek: Strange New Worlds lately.
Supernatural is my binge night ❤️
I love Resident Alien. My go to show is Ghosts. It’s a show about a woman who inherits an old mansion full of ghosts. She bonks her head and can now interact with them. The ghost loves she can talk to them and do things for them so hilarious.
I love Resident Alien. My go to show is Ghosts. Its so hilarious.
Current Hyperfixation is The Mentalist! On my 4th binge in the last 30 days haha
Some other shows I really enjoy are Perry Mason, Bluey, Our Flag Means Death, and Goosebumps
Stargate Atlantis ❤️Dr. Rodney McCay
Most recent favorite is Yellowstone
My favorite is Bob’s Burgers. I LOVE the Belchers and their quirky little seaside town.
I do love Resident Alien. I canceled Hulu until the next season drops and then sign up again. But my favorite show is Unforgotten. The partnerships of the police group, the way they treat the victims and the devastation that ripples outward from the crime are amazing. It’s not an uplifting show but, to me, it’s done to perfection.
I love Outer Banks and Ginny & Georgia!
I love Tracker
I actually just finished watching seasons 1 &2 of Resident Alien, too! I am also loving the new show Elsbeth. She is a quirky brilliant sleuth that is taking New York City by storm!
Doctor Who is my absolute favourite!!! And the current series is absolutely amazing!!!
My favorite show will always be “how I met your mother”. I first watched it in high school, during a time when I was really lonely and sad, and I found comfort, happiness, company in it; i dreamed that I would one day have a group of friends like that, that would become my family in all the ways that mattered, and it got me believing in love even though I didn’t feel like I was “fit” for it. I then rewatched it during my first year of uni, when we were all stuck at home because of covid and I felt so discouraged and bitter for missing out on that experience – and despite me being older, and knowing that maybe the show isn’t perfect, that some jokes don’t work as well ten years later, it still managed to give me comfort in a way few shows have. I never cry while watching TV, and yet I can’t count all the times I did with himym (and still do everytime I rewatch certain episodes) or the times I laughed so hard even on days when I didn’t feel like it. When you know, you know, and I think a piece of my heart will always stay with those characters.
My comfort show is It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Right now I’m enjoying Ghosts, both the UK and US versions.
Tracker
Fire Country, 9-1-1, Station 19, Wolf Pack (paramount plus), Interview with a Vampire, True Blood
I love so many shows! Right now I just finished the first season of X-Men ‘97 and that show put me through so many emotions, haha. When I visit my aunt every week, we watch 2-3 episodes of Crossing Jordan on the Roku, we’re halfway through season 4 out of 6 now, I also wanted to watch this one, because of the crossover episodes they had on Las Vegas, the one with James Caan and Josh Duhamel.
A VERY tough question! I honestly couldn’t tell you if Supernatural or Gilmore Girls wins as my all-time favorite comfort show.
I still watch Buffy reruns. Berlin Station is another favorite rewatch!
Young & Hungry is my favorite show. It is also not the most realistic of plot lines but it is super light hearted and funny!
My favorite show is Law & Order SVU ^^ I’ve been watching it since I was young, and occasionally with my father :’)
Supernatural, Fringe, Constantine and Grimm
Young Sheldon, All the FBI’s, Gunsmoke, and 911
My show is a bit different. I have gone down a rabbit hole as it concerns Chinese dramatic shows. The internet and youtube are very powerful things. The show is Royal Feast, and it has it all, slow burn romance, political intrigue, assassination attempts, interfering mother-in-laws, full out rebellions, arranged marriages leading to heartbreak, a pet black cat, and most of all, food and how it bonds people together, or can break them apart.
House M.D. used to be my all time favorite a few years ago. I went through a Supernatural phase. Currently the I have no favorite ♡ Thank you for the giveaway!
I don’t get to watch too many tv shows, but I love to watch all the baking championship shows cause I love my sweets and my new favorite is catching up on all the Pawn Stars episodes it is really interesting!
Favorite shows:
The Great British Baking Show
9-1-1
Stranger Things
Thank you so much for the wonderful giveaways!!!!
And… The Umbrella Academy! Can’t wait for the last season!!!
Supernatural is one of my favorites, but I also really like Them (the scare) I thought it was really good scare/thriller show.
One of my favorites is The nanny. Niles is just hilarious and I love his and Fran’s friendship. This show has exactly my humor 😉
Whenever I’m bored, I watch Psych, the series about a guy pretending to be a psychic and solving cases for the police. The way he behaves during his ‘visions’ is hilarious. It’s the perfect mix of crimi and comedy!
I’m a big fan of the suicide squad. I love the characters, especially Harley Quinn. She’s simple an icon. As well as the characters, the plot is also brilliant. 🙂
I’m not normally a big fan of TV shows. When others are watching TV, I just pick up a book and read. One show I do like though is Lucifer. It’s so funny to see how he tells everyone that he’s the devil, but no one believes him. And then when they get it, they’re soo shocked XD
I hope I’m not the only one who’s still obsessed with Disney movies, even though I’m way too old for that. The frozen movies in particular are brilliant in my opinion. They never get old!