TV Shows Like Resident Alien
If you like Resident Alien, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
USA Network · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Resident Alien is cancelled
Resident Alien works because it commits fully to its central joke and then keeps complicating it. Harry is not just a fish out of water; he is an alien who genuinely does not understand why humans do the things they do, and the show uses that detachment to ask real questions about empathy, community, and what it means to belong somewhere. The small-town Colorado setting gives it a warm, grounded backdrop that keeps the sci-fi premise from floating away. It is funny, sometimes genuinely strange, and occasionally surprising in how much it cares about its characters.
The best shows like Resident Alien
1. Supergirl
Like Harry, Kara is an alien doing her best to pass as human in a world she was not born into, and the show is genuinely interested in what that costs her emotionally. It is more earnest than Resident Alien and leans harder into superhero action, but the core tension of hiding who you are while slowly opening up to the people around you will feel very familiar. If you liked watching Harry get roped into caring about a community despite himself, Kara's journey has a similar pull.
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2. Futurama
Futurama is probably the closest thing on this list to Resident Alien's specific flavor of sci-fi comedy. Fry, like Harry, is a clueless outsider dropped into an unfamiliar world and forced to figure out the rules as he goes, and the show mines that premise for both sharp satire and surprising warmth. The pizza connection is also, somehow, real: Fry is a pizza delivery boy, which feels almost too on-brand for a Resident Alien fan.
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3. Superman & Lois
Superman & Lois takes the premise of an alien living among humans and grounds it in something very domestic: Clark Kent is just a dad trying to keep it together. The show is more of a family drama than a comedy, but it shares Resident Alien's interest in what an extraordinary person owes to ordinary people and the small community around them. It is one of the better recent takes on the Superman mythology precisely because it shrinks the scale down.
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4. Community
Community is set in Greendale, Colorado, which means it shares a state with Patience, and that is the least of what it has in common with Resident Alien. Both shows center on an outsider who is reluctant to connect with a small, eccentric community and ends up genuinely changed by the experience. Community is a pure comedy and the funniest show on this list, and its ensemble work is as good as anything on television.
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5. Falling Skies
Falling Skies is a tonal departure from Resident Alien, trading small-town warmth for post-invasion survival, but it takes the question of alien threat seriously in a way that fans of Harry's secret mission storyline might appreciate. The show is interested in how humans organize, sacrifice, and hold on to their humanity under pressure, which is not so far from the questions Harry keeps circling. Think of it as the show for when you want the alien-invasion stakes without the comic deflation.
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More on shows like Resident Alien
Fans of Resident Alien tend to want one of a few things in their next show: more science fiction with a sense of humor, a protagonist who is an outsider learning to connect with humanity, or simply a genre show that does not take itself so seriously that it forgets to be fun. The best of the recommendations here deliver on at least two of those counts.
Futurama is the most obvious companion piece, built around a different kind of displaced person stumbling through a world he does not understand, with sci-fi absurdity baked into every episode. Community shares the small-ensemble, one-weird-location DNA and is probably the funniest straight comedy on the list. Supergirl and Superman & Lois both deal with aliens trying to live quietly among humans, though each leans more into drama than comedy. Falling Skies is the odd one out tonally, darker and more survival-focused, but it scratches the itch for serious alien-invasion stakes that Resident Alien occasionally gestures toward before pivoting to a joke about pizza.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Resident Alien?
- Supergirl is the most popular show similar to Resident Alien in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Resident Alien still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Resident Alien listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Resident Alien?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.