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2024/12/01
Season two of Resident Alien is 6 episodes longer, 16 episodes in total. Nowadays for Syfy standards, a big season. Usually there are no more than 13 episodes, usually even shorter. Season two starts of where the first season left of Harry is going back to his planet, but he has a stowaway, Max has accompanied him. When he sees him, all Harry can say: This is some bullshit! 😊
Harry and Max return to Earth, they crash-landed on a baseball field, the ship is cloaked but a game is being played that night. Harry lies in a hospital, having a head injury and tells everybody he is an alien, Asta finds out where he is and takes him with her. Harry goes to the baseball field, trying to disrupt the game.
The mayor and his wife cannot keep their hands off of each other. They’re doing it everywhere. D’Arcy and Asta reconnect, Sheriff and Liv think Harry is the killer, they break down how the murder has happened, actually quite correct. Harry saves the octopus (Nathan Fillion) from the restaurant. Note - Hilarious scene where Harry tries to disrupt the baseball game and just as hilarious is Harry saving this alien friend the octopus.
Harry uses one of the ship spheres to make a fallout shelter for himself and Asta. Asta does not want to live with him in the bunker, he must contact his people and tell them not to come to destroy humanity. Mike and Liv are now convinced Harry is the killer, Mike now also believes the wrong person is in jail for the murder of Sam. Max has a full-grown beard because the device he nicked from Harry. Nurse Ellen (Diana Bang) tells during poker game that the original Harry wanted to sell the house but came back on his decision and paid half a million dollars in cash.
Harry needs to seduce a woman to get the part for his radio and turns on all of his alien charm. Note - Harry putting on the charm is very hilarious! Meanwhile, Asta and the other women of Patience decide to call a GN59: a girls' night out. Max’ hairy issues keep going on, Sahar goes to Harry and demands it stops now. She knows it’s the silver ball and she hid it. Mike and Live are coming to arrest Harry, they even shoot him as he tries to elude them but then he just messes with their brain, so they simply forget. Kate unleashes the darker side of herself, and D'Arcy decides to campaign for the women of Patience to get equal pay. Sahar has convinced Asta that perhaps it isn’t a radio Harry is making but a bomb, so she wants to be there when he activates it. He succeeds but before the message gets through, Asta disables the device because Harry proudly says that they won’t be coming for 50 yrs, after that they will.
Ben and Kate go to a restaurant in Jessup. At first Ben is childish but when the mayor of Jessup comes and talks them down, Kate loses it and tells him basically to stuff it. General Wright is collecting possible aliens, like also the son of the alien hunter. Dr. Ethan Stone is also being interrogated by Wright. Mike goes on a date, questions about his past in Washington, make him leave, and D'Arcy has dinner with her parents, they talk her down all the time, she leaves spectacular and leaves her date Elliot waiting with a red rose. Note – Hilarious Quote: Deputy Liv Baker: Sir, how many tampons do you think I need? Sheriff Mike Thompson: Shit, as many as you can carry. Tampons are extremely versatile. You can use them for gunshot wounds, for a sweaty brow. They actually should market them to men and call 'em manpons. I'd buy them. Deputy Liv Baker: That's quite the TED talk, sir.
Harry contemplates going to NYC and worries that his own people will find him more human than alien. However, the real Harry's daughter Liza arrives in Patience and gives Harry a new perspective. He and his daughter bump heads for a while but when she returns to her mother, she and he are good. Harry again tampers with Mike’s mind, giving him a memory of he and his father fishing, Mike and Liv start to realize their memories have been tampered with. After a baby is delivered from family member of Asta, she goes back to her ex-boyfriend, because she felt he was the only one who can understand her sadness, she hurries out next morning and gets grief about it from D’Arcy. Liv asks Max about the drawing, but Max says he was just goofing around, there are no aliens. The school play the Mayor has written, is strange to say the least, people in the audience are disgusted by the bloody ending. Ben throws a Family Day celebration to help overcome the impression that Patience is more than 59 dead miners. Note – Quote: Harry Vanderspeigle: Is this how humans feel when they have a child--angry and resentful for having to care for a tiny thing? If she were a pet bird, I would leave the cage door open, and the ceiling fan on.
Harry and Asta follow the alien signal to NYC and pay a visit to the art gallery of a reclusive street artist who paints graffiti in Harry's alien language. Harry is bored when someone offers him LSD. It takes awhile but then he is tripping really hard. The octopus dies by the dog Harry kidnapped from Sahar to get his ball back. Note – Shame the octopus is killed off! Liv forces Mike to open up to her, Mike tells her why he is so protective of her, he tells her about his partner who died in Washington, they were best friends since forever. Violinda (Maxim Roy) has a connection with Goliath, the alien, but when she and Asta are alone, she asks Asta how long she knew Harry was an alien. Ben and D’Arcy bond over old times, Ben tells D’Arcy he never is himself when he is with his wife. Harry and Asta are not to the only ones to travel to NYC, the government is there also. Note – Quote: Sahar (to Harry): Divorce is against my religion, unless it's initiated by the man, which is why I'm never getting married.
Violinda says Goliath is dead but when Asta tells Harry he was fossilized, he knows there is something for him Goliath wants Harry to have, an egg. Government operative Lisa Casper is also in NY and comes at the same time there when Harry comes for the egg. He manages to overpower her, but she escapes. Violinda gives Harry the egg because she knows Goliath wanted Harry to have it because it can only be safe with him. On the way back, with the train, Lisa is back and wants the egg, fights Harry for it, but Harry kills her by hanging her out of the window, chopping her head off. D’Arcy and Kate bond, Kate tells D’Arcy she might be pregnant which she isn’t that happy about, because she finally has her life back. Sheriff Mike finds a clue which could be the reason of Sam’s death and also exonerates Sam Hodges’ wife Abigail. With the help of nurse Ellen Cho, Ben fires the doctor who came after Ethan, because she is no longer capable. Ben wants Harry back as the towns doctor and realizes his birthday is coming up. He wants to surprise him with a party and try to convince him to come back. Note – We all love Harry, but seeing how easily he kills that government operative, makes you realize he is not such a sweetheart, actually quite dangerous.
General Wright negotiates with Logan (Alex Barima) to get the alien ball, but Logan is shot by Rainier (Enver Gjokaj), an alien. Dinner party, which is organized by the major, is ongoing, meanwhile the alien baby has hatched and is causing ruckus. Kate finds out about the kiss between Ben and D’Arcy and that they were spending time together. She tells Ben she is pregnant. Max and Sahar realize Ethan has been kidnapped and that they soon will come back to find the real alien. Liv is planning to contact the alien bounty hunter because she knows there is alien activity in Patience. Man from New York, with whom Harry had an unpleasant conversation, is in Patience, waiting to kill Harry. He shoots Harry but before he can make the final shot, Asta shoots him, and D’Arcy is a witness. Note – Best episode yet (Alien Dinner Party). Quote: Asta Twelvetrees: [to Max and Sahar] What are you guys even doing here? Don't you have a babysitter? Sahar: It's Ellen. Asta Twelvetrees: Say no more. Okay, get home safe. – Ellen should get a bigger role; she is so much fun!
D'arcy helps Harry and Asta get rid of the dead man, from NY, who shot Harry. While Asta deals with her feelings of guilt for killing this man, Ben tries to get the police in Jessup to take over the crime scene, so Patience doesn't become the "Murder Town USA". But Harry needs to control this, so makes sure he is the examiner so he plants evidence which would suggest the murderer was on Patience ground. The man trying to kill Harry did not come alone, but the alien baby kills these two men. Asta wants to tell Liv but than remembers what Harry had said, it could jeopardize her friends and family. Ben is very happy that Harry wants to become the town doctor again. Harry of course has ulterior motives.
Harry makes Asta forget about the murder, that also includes her lunch appointment with her daughter. Jay is angry at Asta for standing her up, that is the moment she realizes Harry has messed with her head. Asta says to Harry that it is important to also learn from bad experiences, makes you stronger. Harry is afraid of death. Harry still hasn’t told her that another race is threatening to destroy the earth. Ben admits to his wife that he's afraid of everything, including her. They remember that long ago they would talk for hours on the phone. Ben calls her while she is in the kitchen while he is in the living, and they talk for hours again. Sahar finds the alien baby in the new form it's taken on and brings in Max to help her with it. The alien baby has taken on the form of a young boy named Tommy, who disappeared 81 years ago, who went into the mines and was never found again. While Sherif and the Det. Lena Torres bond, Liv feels like she is the 3rd wheel. D’Arcy threatens Harry that if he hurts Asta, she will have to murder him. Note – Quote: Sheriff Mike Thompson: When have you ever seen me take a backseat? I don't even sit in the back seat in a car. If I hail a cab, I say "shotgun" or I drive.
Max does chores for Harry, so he can get enough money to buy a drum set. Harry wants Max to help him find the alien kid, Max just uses Harry to get enough money to buy the drum set. Kate has taken another blood test, she is not pregnant, she and Ben a quite relieved but at first, they were afraid to tell this to each other. David suspects the alien is still in Patience, and Wright goes there to investigate. Wright finally believes Ethan is just a human but that doesn’t mean he is better off. Harry finally finds the alien kid, but it escapes again! Asta really has issues with killing a man, her father helps her accept it by sharing the burden. Asta is annoyed / angry with Harry, which he hates. Max and Sahar give Harry some lessons about friendship, at the café Harry tells Asta the truth about this other alien species. Right behind them Wright sits at the bar. D’Arcy is thinking about a comeback with her skiing.
On Halloween, Wright infiltrates the elementary school cafeteria and gets a lead on Bobby the Alien Baby. Sahar and Harry work together in trying to find the baby. He calls it kidnapping and Sahar calls it adult napping. Harry realizes that he's becoming more contaminated with human feelings. Ben tries to convince the townspeople to accept the resort he is planning. D’Arcy and her friends try to convince Kate, Ben’s wife, to try and stop this resort because Patience will forever change. D’Arcy has a painful knee from the heavy training and is trying to hide it from her boyfriend and Asta. Harry tells his story, how everything is destroyed far in the future and in 500 years he steps into some kind of portal and steps into earth’s history, around the time Goliath meets his host…Harry is Goliath! Note – Quote: Harry Vanderspeigle: And I starting to care about all humans? What kind of monster have I become?
Harry learns that the aliens who are planning to takeover Earth, aren't who he thought they were. The Grey’s are actually the ones (voice George Takei, Oh my)! Meanwhile, Harry and Asta go see D'Arcy at her skiing qualifier, D’Arcy still has lots of knee pain and needs a pain relief medicine shot from Harry to finish the race. Asta meets her mother for the first time in decades. Her mother didn’t and doesn’t want to have anything to do with Asta. Harry tries to comfort her. Ben and Kate agree to disagree about whether a resort should come to Patience. For the first time Ben puts his foot down, but Kate does not give up. Note – Great scene when the Grey alien (Takei) talks to Harry with his recognizable voice. Alien tracker finally comes to patience, after 62 mails from the deputy. In Dan’s he sees Harry and follows him. They stand across from each other, just when the fight is about to start, Judy slams a door into the tracker. Alien Tracker tries to convince Max to join his side, while the alien baby shows himself to Wright. Asta tells Jay she can always ask her anything, or nothing, either way, always ok. D’Arcy’s knee is not doing well, she takes it out on her boyfriend who ends it with her. Harry tells Asta that the Greys are going to kill everybody.
Harry has the Alien hunter Peter locked up in his bunker. When Asta comes by she finds this out and frees him. Harry and Peter decide to work together. Harry and Peter team up to infiltrate the government military base and recover their children. They succeed, Harry gets the full story from Goliath, and he realizes he cannot abandon his baby. Peter jumps before a bullet meant for his son, shot by Joseph Rainier who is a human/hybrid alien. When fleeing, Harry almost kills Wright, but he decides not to. Ben has trouble sleeping and goes of the road while driving. Asta helps D'Arcy break her addiction to pain pills, and discovers she has an unwanted house guest or two. Note – Quote: Harry Vanderspeigle: Asta always does the right thing. It is her most annoying trait. that, and she never lets me kill anyone.
The full message from Goliath to Harry is revealed, Asta now also learns the full message. The alien hybrid Joseph Rainier, a Grey, becomes a new deputy, he basically sends Harry home. He is saying his goodbyes (Max doesn’t even believe he will go because he loves Max too much!) but he only sends his Baby, to keep him safe. He is surprised that Sahar can love his baby so much. Asta must choose whether to reveal her secret to D'Arcy or lose her forever. But it is Harry who shows his true self to her. She however is not impressed, just happy that this is Asta’s secret. Mike learns the truth about Liv's truth when she tells him something bad happened to the alien tracker. Mike decides to trust her gut. The alien tracker’s son and the mayor, Ben, have been taken by these aliens who call themselves the Grey. Note – Quote: Grey Alien: [to a restrained Ben Hawthorne] Do not be afraid. Your baby is here too.
Final Word:
I said it in my season one blog already, this is the first Syfy show in years I find fun and entertaining. Last few years they didn’t produce any interesting SCI-FI shows and although Resident Alien is not only a SCI-FI show, it is the best show airing on Syfy since The Expanse. Only one episode I thought was a bit lighter than the rest of the bunch, “Girls' Night”, and this is still very watchable. But for the rest it is just a great show. Alan Tudyk does a terrific job playing this blunt, egotistical alien. He usually is just telling the truth, which people find to absurd they assume he is joking. The sheriff Mike and the deputy Liv are my two other favorite characters. These 3 characters are responsible for most of the spot on humor. This is a show you must see, not only SCI-FI fans need to see this, because it’s so much fun and Alan Tudyk is absolutely hilariously fantastic as Harry Vanderspeigle. No one could have done a better job than him.
With help from IMdB & Screencaps taken from: Resident Alien Wiki
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