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Resident Alien (2021)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.2
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Overview

Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, 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?”


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Trans: Neutral
Christianity: Positive

Overview

Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, 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?”


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Netflix logoNetflix
Peacock logoPeacock
YouTube logoYouTube
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The series leans left by consistently championing empathy for the marginalized and critiquing human prejudice and environmental destruction, framed through an alien's journey of understanding and valuing humanity.

The series 'Resident Alien' features a visibly diverse cast, including a prominent Native American lead and a Black sheriff, whose identities are integral to their characters and the show's setting. While it explores themes of otherness and cultural identity, the narrative does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center its plot around strong, explicit DEI-driven themes.

Secondary

Resident Alien includes a minor lesbian character, Carly, whose identity and relationship are presented as normal and accepted. While this depiction is positive, LGBTQ+ themes are not central to the show's narrative, resulting in a neutral overall impact on its portrayal.

Resident Alien features Sahar, a trans woman, as a recurring character. Her trans identity is acknowledged but not central to the plot, nor is it a source of conflict or mockery. The portrayal is respectful and incidental, integrating her as a normal member of the community without deep exploration of her trans experience.

The show observes Christian practices through an alien's detached, often humorous, perspective. While Harry finds aspects baffling, the narrative generally portrays adherents as good-hearted and highlights the positive community and comfort faith provides, without condemning the religion itself.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The show is an adaptation of a comic book series. All major characters, including Harry Vanderspeigle, Asta Twelvetrees, and Sheriff Mike Thompson, maintain their established genders from the source material. No canonical gender swaps are present.

Based on the comic book series, the main characters in the 'Resident Alien' show maintain the same racial depictions as established in the source material. No instances of a character canonically established as one race being portrayed as a different race were identified.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.2

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
8.0
The Movie Database logo
7.8

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
9.8
Metacritic logo
7.0

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