True art should not make perception promptly, if at any time. Syfy's incredibly fantastic comedy Resident Alien type of feels like it could have been a Saturday Night Live skit from the 1990s - an alien with a disgust for human beings crash-lands in a small Colorado town and pretends to be the town health practitioner - which would make you think the gimmick would burn up on entry into a full 10-episode time of television.