Alan Tudyk is terrific, carrying every scene he's in. And season 1 is very good besides, with a manageable plot and other characters. The sly humor is pervasive.
Season 2 goes downhill fast. There's more and more padding of dream sequences, people wandering around to country music; friending and sistering and parenting and familying and talking about the meaning of life etc. Side stories slide in and out around major plotholes. Turdyk as an alien is a bad fit for any of this so is usually out of the picture. He gets a few lines when they remember that the show is about him. The humor injections still appear but less frequent and can't do as much.
That's when weaknesses in the supporting actors become more evident, not helped by some poor direction that lingers too long on faces, calls for too evident reactions etc. This is Hallmark movie acting.
Season 1 was great fun. Season 2 is so much worse that I didn't even finish it. Very disappointing.
Season 2 goes downhill fast. There's more and more padding of dream sequences, people wandering around to country music; friending and sistering and parenting and familying and talking about the meaning of life etc. Side stories slide in and out around major plotholes. Turdyk as an alien is a bad fit for any of this so is usually out of the picture. He gets a few lines when they remember that the show is about him. The humor injections still appear but less frequent and can't do as much.
That's when weaknesses in the supporting actors become more evident, not helped by some poor direction that lingers too long on faces, calls for too evident reactions etc. This is Hallmark movie acting.
Season 1 was great fun. Season 2 is so much worse that I didn't even finish it. Very disappointing.