This show is a wild ride. An alien crashes on Earth. He pretends to be a small-town doctor. Blending in is tough. He learns about human stuff- joys, challenges, all that good stuff. It is a mix of laughs and feels. With a great cast, Resident Alien keeps you hooked. You will want more, trust me!

Meet the characters from Resident Alien

Harry Vanderspeigle

Okay, Harry is the sweetest chaotic little undercover alien pretending to be a town doctor and honestly it’s weirdly endearing — he’s brilliant, socially awkward, and constantly befuddled by small-town coffee. He obsesses over human rituals like handshakes and toast, then forgets what a toaster is five minutes later, which is honestly peak Harry. He’s deeply curious and kind in a bumbling way, like a puppy who read a philosophy book, but also capable of making terrifyingly efficient decisions when the stakes are high. Also, he has this inexplicable habit of humming elevator music when thinking, don’t ask me why, it just fits.

Asta Twelvetrees

Asta is the grounded, quietly fierce remnant of a military past who acts like she’s seen everything and mostly she has, so she just gives one eyebrow and the problem somehow fixes itself. She’s pragmatic, blunt, and protective of the people she cares about, while also secretly hoarding kindness like a squirrel with nuts — it’s weirdly tender. She hates nonsense but will tolerate small-town weirdness if it means keeping folks safe, and sometimes she writes poems? I’m not kidding, she has a notebook with terrible rhymes and I love that contrast.

Sheriff Mike Thompson

Mike is the big-hearted sheriff who tries to keep everyone sane even when the cosmos is not cooperating, and he radiates dad-energy in the best way — warm, awkward, a little bewildered. He’s patient, fair, and constantly making terrible puns that somehow diffuse tension, which is both his superpower and his signature move. He can be surprisingly brave and practical when things go south, though he’ll deny it and offer you a cookie instead, true story. Also, I swear he has one novelty tie he wears for important emergencies; it’s both heroic and slightly tragic.

D’Arcy Bloom

D’Arcy runs the bar like she’s running the world — sarcastic, razor-sharp, and somehow the emotional epicenter of the town, which she denies very loudly. She mixes drinks with the same exacting care she uses to dispense life advice, and yes she names cocktails after feelings she thinks are dangerous. She’s blunt but loyal to the core, secretly soft for underdogs and kids, though she’ll slander you gently while fixing your elbow. Also, she might own three identical flannel shirts and a complicated relationship with baking, sometimes baking, sometimes burning toast on purpose — mood-dependent.

Mayor Ben Hawthorne

Ben is the mayor with a perfect smile and a million-tiered plan to keep his town ‘safe’ and definitely under his watchful eye, which sometimes reads as heartfelt and sometimes reads as agenda. He’s charismatic and played-up-friendly, like a brochure come to life, but there’s this low hum of insecurity that makes his politicking oddly human. He wants the best for the town — sincerely? — but also loves power a little too much and collects random civic memorabilia for reasons he can’t explain. Also, he has this unfortunate habit of practicing speeches in the mirror and occasionally getting flustered when a kid corrects his facts, which is both ridiculous and oddly charming.

Max Hawthorne

Max is the kid who built his own spaceship out of a cardboard box and probably convinced half the town to help, he’s endlessly curious, clever, and bursting with plans at all times. He’s brave to the point of reckless and has feelings that are enormous and immediate, then five minutes later he’s building an elaborate trap for… squirrels? His imagination runs the town and he switches from mad scientist to mini-detective with alarming speed, and also he may have a weird collection of found buttons that he treasures. Also, he’s simultaneously dramatic and quietly tender — like soap-opera-level melodrama meets tiny philosopher.

Kate Hawthorne

Kate is the exhausted, brilliant single mom/journalist who refuses to let anything slide, a total moral compass with a coffee addiction and a secret stash of gum for emergencies. She’s stubborn, principled, and has a knack for sniffing out the truth — even if that truth ruins her day and sometimes her waistline (too much coffee, not enough sleep). She’s protective in that deliberate way, like a wolf who also happens to file perfectly organized notes, and she can flip from warm comfort to laser focus in a blink. Also she collects unsent letters to people she should probably text back but won’t, very on-brand and slightly tragic-comic.

Deputy Liv Baker

Liv is the rookie-ambitious deputy with a heart of gold and an adrenaline junkie’s smile, loves law and order but also secret snack stashes in her jacket. She’s eager, earnest, and tries to be professional while occasionally tripping over small-town bureaucracy, and she tells the best accidental jokes when nervous. Brave when it counts but still squeamish about the grosser bits of police work — don’t ask her to look at the weird science stuff unless she’s had a donut — and she has an uncanny talent for remembering everyone’s birthdays. Also, she carries hand sanitizer like a talisman and it’s both practical and completely her.

Alien Harry Double

The alien who is “Harry” is a gloriously awkward social experiment in human mimicry, brilliant and clinical at first but slowly collecting little human tics like souvenir spoons. He’s precise, calculating, and also hilariously bad at sarcasm, which makes his attempts at small talk feel like interpretive dance. Over time he accrues empathy in awkward bursts — like a robot learning to cry — and then he’ll do something unexpectedly sweet and ruin your whole theory about outer life. Also he eats weird combos when stressed, which is now a canonical thing I will never stop talking about.

Lisa Casper

Lisa is the neighbor you can’t help but notice — chatty, practical, nosy in the best possible way, and shockingly observant about people’s habits (has opinions about your recycling). She’s a walking repository of town gossip but also the person who shows up with soup when things go sideways, which makes her a complicated gem. She’s simultaneously warm and boundary-pushing, and she remembers detail after detail about your childhood even though you met last week. Also, she keeps tiny notebooks and labels them ‘important’ in marker even when they’re full of doodles, which is both terrifying and adorable.