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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | | | Only Murders in the Building to Cooking With Paris: the unsung TV heroes of 2021 | | by Graeme Virtue, Rachel Aroesti, Alexi Duggins, Phil Harrison, Hollie Richardson, Stuart Heritage, Rebecca Nicholson and Henry Wong Dec 30, 2021 | | Paris Hilton’s disgusting dishes! Martin Freeman as a bad dad! A history of swear words! Here’s another chance to discover the incredible shows of the year you may have missed “The sci-fi murder mystery doctor dramedy Earth needs now!” That was the US marketing blurb for Resident Alien, a plucky attempt to turn the show’s audacious genre-mashing into a marketing angle. While it certainly has a lot going on – an alien crash-lands in small-town Colorado and attempts to evade detection by hijacking the identity of a big-city doctor – it only took a few episodes for me to realise why I was enjoying it so much. This story of a fusspot out-of-towner clashing with the rhythms of a town full of curious eccentrics is a spiritual descendant of 1990s fish-out-of-water touchstone Northern Exposure, complete with snowy setting and covetable local bar. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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