wiredarp

Really, this show has missed the mark significantly right from the start. Given the huge amount of 'fish out of water' comedy opportunities offered by an alien trying to fit into human society, it's surprisingly short on actual laughs. Most episodes you get a couple of fun moments, but it really ran out of ideas by season 2 and now is just coasting along, being more of a soap than a comedy.

The storylines are all over the place, some of the characters who used to be lovable have degraded into merely annoying, and you could write each episodes plot on the back of a business card, but its still a show I watch most weeks after I've run out of other, better shows.

Alan Tudyk is always entertaining though. And given the quality of other shows like La Brea, I guess I should be grateful for what we have gotten. Given that great shows like Raised by Wolves only got 2 seasons, and this one has 4, I can only assume its extremely cheap to produce and is still returning a profit.

I give it 3 starts because it starts out ok, and visually it has a sort of a gritty look thats a bit like a chick centric version of Children of Men.

Unfortunately, that's about the high point. It descends from there in boring, talky moments, flails around with some rather hokey seeming 'tribal' stuff, and then ends with the stupidest and most illogical twist possible.

The only people rating this over say, 5, are only doing so because they are invested in the production for reasons other than film quality.

Basically, its like a cut rate version of Free Guy, with poor plotting, some quite average acting from some actors, and some rather average special effects.

Add in all the sanitized violence (can't see someone not wearing a mask and uniform killed, can we?), and the fact there's surprisingly few truly funny bits, and its really quite mediocre.

Don't waste your time unless you really have nothing better to watch.