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On the 27th of January, Resident Alien premiered on SyFy and it's already doing a lot to subvert well-known alien invasion tropes. Already rated with an outstanding 8.7/10 on IMDb, the first episode was praised for its humor.

The main character, Captain Hah Re, best known as Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, might be an alien on a mission and spend part of Episode 1 looking for his lost spaceship, but this shouldn't put off anyone whose favorite genre isn't science fiction.

Alan Tudyk's quirky performance as an alien who imitates human mannerisms and poses as a small-town doctor is arguably one of the show's strongest points. At its heart, Resident Alien is a show about people, so its best moments come not from hard sci-fi tropes but from human interactions.

We have gathered all the information you need before Resident Alien Episode 2 will air next week:

Resident Alien Episode 2 Release Date

The premiere of Resident Alien was released last Wednesday, on the 27th of January. In the official Twitter account of the show, it was confirmed that episode 2 will air next Wednesday, the 3rd of February, followed by an ominous warning: "Sorry, Harry. Being human is harder than it looks.

Resident Alien Episode 2 Trailer

The promo for Episode 2 has already been released and it looks like everything the show promises to be: quirky, hilarious, conscious in its portrayal of small-town life, with enough sci-fi and murder mystery elements to fill more than one episode.

Resident Alien Episode 2: What Is It Going to Be About?

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In Episode 1, we followed Captain Ha Re in his first, reluctant interactions with humans, when a tragedy in the small town that involved the death of the previous town doctor, forced him to take up the role and investigate the cause of death.

We learned how Ha Re became Dr. Harry, teaching himself to talk and perform human tasks through television with varying degrees of success. But we also found out that his crash on earth was an accident, and that he must move on to complete an important mission.

Episode 2, titled "Homesick" will likely deal with Harry's complicated feelings regarding his planet and his difficulties adjusting to life on Earth. In the trailer, we see that he reluctantly becomes a part of the small-town community he found himself in.

But how long can such a disguise last, now that a 9-year-old town resident has seen Harry's true form? Will Harry stay firm on his resolution to kill the child? While it's impossible to tell for sure, the episode synopsis suggests he won't:

"In his first week at the clinic, Harry struggles to diagnose a strange feeling: human emotion."
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Where will this emotion take him? Stay tuned to find out!

If you are interested in the show but don't have a cable subscription here is how you can watch Resident Alien without cable.

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