The Joke is the Hook

How a Sci-Fi Comedy Schools Us in Satan’s Playbook

I want to talk about a television show. Not to recommend it. Not to condemn it as mere entertainment. But to pull back the curtain on its mechanism. To show you the gear turning behind the laugh track. For the past week, I have watched a series called Resident Alien. I finished all three seasons. It is a clever, often funny show about an alien who crash…