Resident Alien Team Tees Up Season 4's Time Jump & More: "There Are a Lot of Fuses That Were Lit..."
Showrunner Chris Sheridan and his cast members set the stage for us ahead of the show's June 6 return.
For Resident Alien cast member Sara Tomko (Asta Twelvetrees), "cliffhanger" doesn't do justice to the amount of narrative threads left dangling in the Season 3 finale.
"It was [more] like a cliff-hangover," she proclaimed during a Zoom call with USA Insider.
Creator, showrunner, and executive producer Chris Sheridan (a longtime veteran of Family Guy) echoed that sentiment: "As you remember, there were a ton of cliffhangers at the end of Season 3."
So, where do we find all the characters in Season 4? Sheridan and his cast were kind enough to set the stage for us ahead of the June 6 premiere on USA Network and SYFY!
Resident Alien showrunner and cast set up Season 4
Chris Sheridan (creator/showrunner/executive producer): "Harry is stuck on a Grey moon base [and] an evil Mantid alien has taken over his body on Earth. Asta is [also] back on Earth. We come up on the season a month later, so things have been going on for a while. Asta and D’arcy are sort of reacting to what happened. They've just come off this incredible adventure at the end of Episode 8 in Season 3, where they were on the moon base. So they come back into [this] season feeling a little bit off. It’s hard to be up on the moon and not come back and feel a little bit small; they’re trying to figure out what their lives are.
"Meanwhile, Ben and Kate are searching for their baby. It seemed at the end of Season 3 that D’arcy was gonna hand the baby over, but it doesn’t quite work out that way. So they’re on a mission to find their baby. Mike and Liv have been spending a month trying to figure out some mysterious murders in Patience, which we will soon figure out can be attributed to this Mantid alien who’s hiding as Harry."
Alice Wetterlund (D'arcy Bloom): "Everybody sort of crosses paths on the ship. We see each other on a spaceship and it’s a whole [thing], you know? I take the baby back to Earth, but don’t give the baby to Kate because it turns out that’s not the safest place for the baby because we think, ‘Oh, we are gonna figure out this Greys situation and once we do, then everybody will be safe and we can give the Hawthornes their child back.'"
Meredith Garretson (Kate Hawthorne): "And I don’t remember [what happened on the ship], so I start this season being like, 'OK, well I guess they abducted me again. My whole job now is to prepare to be abducted and hopefully the next time I’m abducted, I can just kick so much ass that I get my baby back.' So, I’ve been preparing myself to be abducted and that’s the energy that we meet Kate in at the top of Season 4, is thinking that her baby hasn’t been rescued, is still up there, and that she has got to get strong enough to be able to physically defeat whatever is taking her."
Elizabeth Bowen (Deputy Liv Baker): "I’ve just discovered that Peter Bach is alive and back in a slightly different form. It kicks off pretty quickly where I’m trying to help him stay hidden and take care of him at the same time."
Corey Reynolds (Sheriff Mike Thompson): "There are a lot of fuses that were lit in the Season 3 finale for our characters. And now, as we come into Season 4, from Mike’s perspective, he’s trying to figure out what’s real and what isn’t. His reality has been shattered in ways that he’s been really resistant to wanting to accept. But eventually, at some point, when it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and comes up to you and says, ‘Hey, bro, I’m a duck,' eventually, you’re going to have to accept that.
"And I think that’s that final wall that Mike is having to confront. But reshaping someone’s reality is a difficult process and we’re watching all the characters in Season 4 start tackling…like I said, those fuses have been lit and we’re watching it culminate toward something that the audience is gonna find pretty magnificent as the season progresses."
Season 4 of Resident Alien premieres on USA Network and SYFY on Friday, June 6 at 11 p.m. ET/PT. All episodes will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock one week after they air.
