I've watched the first six episodes of this show. The central theme is an alien who has crashed in Colorado takes on the appearance of a human he has killed to hide while trying to put his ship back together.
The thing thatnis odd about this show is that every character has a complicated back story. Alien character (played by Alan Tudyk) has to fill.in for the town doctor who has been murdered. The nurse in the surgery has about four different story lines going on, including giving a child up for adoption years previously, an abusive partner and being from a first nations tribe. There is a cop investigating the murder who has turned his back on a big city job to care for his ungrateful father. The barmaid in the pub was an Olympic skier who blew her knee out. The mayor is married to the high school principal - their kid can see the alien. The guy the alien killed and replicated has a wife who is English and an artist. There are military types hunting the alien operating on different sets of orders.
It's a strange approach as if the scriptwriters had an ideas meeting and then decided to use absolutely everything they came up with. As a result the show feels very complex, more than a show like this should be.
The thing thatnis odd about this show is that every character has a complicated back story. Alien character (played by Alan Tudyk) has to fill.in for the town doctor who has been murdered. The nurse in the surgery has about four different story lines going on, including giving a child up for adoption years previously, an abusive partner and being from a first nations tribe. There is a cop investigating the murder who has turned his back on a big city job to care for his ungrateful father. The barmaid in the pub was an Olympic skier who blew her knee out. The mayor is married to the high school principal - their kid can see the alien. The guy the alien killed and replicated has a wife who is English and an artist. There are military types hunting the alien operating on different sets of orders.
It's a strange approach as if the scriptwriters had an ideas meeting and then decided to use absolutely everything they came up with. As a result the show feels very complex, more than a show like this should be.
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