The latest sci-fi comedy to hit TV is Resident Alien, which is premiering Wednesday, January 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on both Syfy and the USA Network.
If you don’t have cable, here’s how you can watch Resident Alien streaming online for free:
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FuboTV
You can watch a live stream of SyFy, USA Network and 100-plus other TV channels on FuboTV, which comes with a seven-day free trial:
Once signed up for FuboTV, you can watch Resident Alien live on the FuboTV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV, Android TV, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. You can also watch on your computer via the FuboTV website.
If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch most shows on-demand within three days (and sometimes longer) of their conclusion, even if you don’t record them.
Hulu With Live TV
You can watch a live stream of SyFy, USA Network and 65+ other TV channels via Hulu With Live TV, which you can try out for free with a seven-day trial:
Once signed up for Hulu With Live TV, you can watch Resident Alien live on the Hulu app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Samsung Smart TV, LG Smart TV, Android TV, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Hulu website.
If you can’t watch live, Hulu with Live TV comes with both its extensive on-demand library (which includes most shows after they air) and 50 hours of Cloud DVR storage (with the ability to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of DVR space and the ability to fast forward through commercials).
Sling TV
You can watch a live stream of SyFy, USA Network and 40-plus other TV channels via Sling TV’s “Sling Blue” bundle. It’s the cheapest streaming service with those channels, plus you can get $10 off your first month, and get Showtime, Starz, and Epix included for free:
Once signed up for Sling TV, you can watch Resident Alien live on the Sling TV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV, LG Smart TV, Android TV, airTV Mini, Oculus, Portal, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Sling TV website.
If you can’t watch live, Sling TV comes included with 10 hours of cloud DVR.
‘Resident Alien’ Preview
Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name and starring Alan Tudyk as the titular alien Harry, Resident Alien is about an extraterrestrial who “crash lands on Earth and passes himself off as a small-town human doctor,” according to the Syfy press release.
Harry’s secret mission is “to kill all humans,” but his simple life is disrupted when he is “roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does so, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: ‘Are human beings worth saving?’ and ‘Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?'”
In an interview with TVLine about his new project, Tudyk said that he “loved the script right away” and knew he had to do the show because it was so funny and because Harry starts to have such a journey.
“When he takes on the human form, he starts to find out pretty early that he’s feeling things and sensing the world with our spectrum of senses,” said Tudyk. “It starts to affect him. He starts to, in a true sense, know what it’s like to be human.”
It was a lot of fun for Tudyk to figure out how Harry would go about figuring out how to pass as human.
“The scene where he’s learning how to speak as a human and he’s watching Law & Order and getting it wrong… that was immediately exciting for me, because I knew he’d have to learn everything,” said Tudyk. “When I did Sonny in I, Robot, all of these questions were answered for me back then. Like, how would a robot speak and how would a robot move? The alien is approaching being a human in the same way: How would you move with the most ergonomic efficiency in this form?”
The show co-stars Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Judah Prehn, and Levi Fiehler. It premieres Wednesday, January 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Syfy and USA before moving strictly to Syfy for subsequent new episodes.
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Resident Alien Streaming: How to Watch SyFy Show Online