Resident Alien Has an Important Schedule Change Starting with This Week's Episode (July 4, 2025)
Tune in to see Harry an hour earlier than normal this week — and for the rest of the season.
Resident Alien's Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) may be a resident of Patience, Colorado, but the TV show is moving. Luckily, it's not moving very far.
Starting with tonight's episode, the fifth episode of the ongoing fourth season, Resident Alien is getting a new timeslot. It's still airing on USA Network and SYFY on Fridays, but now it's going to start an hour earlier, at 10 p.m. Here's everything you need to know about how and when to watch the next episode of Resident Alien, what it means for the rest of the season, and a brief refresher on what happened last week.
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Is a new episode of Resident Alien on tonight, Friday, July 4, 2025?
Yes! A new episode of Resident Alien premieres tonight on USA Network and SYFY.
What time does Resident Alien come on tonight, Friday, July 4, 2025?
Resident Alien Season 4, Episode 5, "The Human Condition," premieres on USA Network and SYFY tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Previous episodes of this season aired at 11 p.m., but going forward, the rest of Season 4 will air at the new, earlier time. Update your schedule accordingly!
Last week saw a new side of Harry
Last week's episode, "Truth Hurts," was a heartbreaker — or whatever organ makes an extra-terrestrial pump blood.
Because Harry no longer has his alien powers, it meant the end of his relationship with Heather (Edi Patterson), as he couldn't expect her to stay on Earth with him forever to live life as a normal human. In USA Insider's interview with Resident Alien showrunner Chris Sheridan unpacking the episode, Sheridan said the break-up gave Harry a chance to showcase how he's really becoming human — and that Tudyk nailed the challenge of showing this gradual transformation.
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"There's a loss in [Harry]," Sheridan said. "And [Tudyk] becomes 2 percent more human in how he interacts with people, which is a very subtle acting here, too."
"But most of it is watching what it means to maybe feel more empathetic now, feel the emotions more now than ever before," he continued.
"I think that this kind of comedy with drama, simultaneously, is my favorite thing to do," Tudyk said. "The scene with Heather, it's a hard goodbye. Edi Patterson plays Heather, and she makes me laugh and breaks my heart at the same time."
Season 4 of Resident Alien drops new episodes on Fridays on USA Network and SYFY. All episodes will be available to stream on Peacock one week after they air.
