Awkwardness is human. It’s also Harry Vanderspeigle’s defining characteristic as a stranded extraterrestrial, making “Resident Alien” one of the most reliably entertaining and heartwarming shows on TV.
Harry power chomps pizza and inserts curse words in places that don’t quite make sense. To him, E.T. is a sexy, "beautiful moron" and children might as well be gerbils. No idiosyncrasy is too singular for him to wrestle into submission – and over three seasons of the Syfy series, he’s bear-hugged a lot of them.
