Resident Alien may be coming to an end, but star Sara Tomko has a promise for fans: You won’t be disappointed by what’s to come.
Tomko joined her costars Alan Tudyk, Corey Reynolds, and Alice Wetterlund, as well as creator Chris Sheridan, at the Entertainment Weekly Studio at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 to discuss the quirky sci-fi comedy’s fourth season, which was revealed Friday to be its last.
EW Editor-in-Chief Patrick Gomez starts the conversation by asking the assembled Resident residents about the bad news, which causes Tudyk to double over in pain and let out a long groan. Wetterlund pats her costar’s back while Tomko sympathetically coos, “Aw, baby.”
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Corey Reynolds, Chris Sheridan, Alice Wetterlund, Sara Tomko, and Alan Tudyk at Comic-Con 2025
The actress jokes, “He had just forgotten, then remembered all over again.”
Resident Alien is currently airing its fourth season, so Sheridan cautions that it’s “hard to say much without spoiling what’s coming.” Wetterlund adds that there’s “a lot of wrong turns you can take in describing what happens,” but snarks, “I think disappointing people has been one of the greatest things, making people sad. We made you laugh for a long time!”
Based on the comic series by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, Resident Alien unfolds with humorous verve the moral dilemma of “Harry Vanderspeigle,” an alien (Tudyk) who takes over the body of a small town doctor and subsequently begins to question his mission to destroy Earth.
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Tomko, who plays nurse Asta Twelvetrees — one of the first residents of the fictional Patience, Colo., to discover Harry’s true identity — says that Sheridan recently described the Resident Alien‘s cancellation in a way that perfectly sums up the cast and crew’s feelings.
“We’ve set up a world where things happen in Patience, and this is a story arc that started from the pilot in season 1 and is now going to finish in season 4, so I think our fans will be satisfied from point A to B to C to D to the finish line,” she paraphrases. “I think we hoped there was a possibility we could go on… [but] it’s just nice to feel like we’ve offered a solution to ourselves as writers, as a cast, to be able to just say, ‘This is where this particular story arc ends. I think fans will be really really satisfied with that, as we are.”
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Elizabeth Bowen, Meredith Garretson, Levi Feihler, and Corey Reynolds on ‘Resident Alien’
Sheridan told TV Insider on Thursday that he had a feeling season 4 might be the show’s last. “I knew we could spend the time wrapping up some storylines and driving toward an ending. I’m so proud of how good season 4 is and especially proud that we were able to finish as strongly as we did, with a finale that is probably my favorite episode of the series,” he said.
With only three episodes to go, fans will soon be able to evaluate Resident Alien in totality for themselves. The series airs one of its last episodes on Friday, with the appropriately titled finale, “The End is Here,” coming on Aug. 8.
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