ThiefHott Too much of everything

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

escctrlshift I've grown to love this show's characters, even Jeff the Gray -- a ridiculously incompetent, whiny, veangeful, procrastinating, bereaved, light gray, egg-headed, three-fingered, all-thumbs, bug-eyed alien with an interspecies kink for reptilians and heavily prejudiced loathing for humans, played by Ken Hall. We grow attached to the show's characters, alien and human, for their (un-)humanity that is so reminiscent of our own. The humans are freaks because of being abductees; the aliens are freaks because, well, they are freaks dealing with heavy sexual and personal politics in the workplace...while they abduct and (except for the traitors among them) abuse us. Sounds just like...us?As such, the two groups are literally in the same boat/flying saucer together, as if Diane Fossey, Marlin Perkins and Ted Nugent went on a human-hunting safari in a densely populated game preserve, captured a bunch of live specimens, and had a real ball manipulating, fornicating or deleting the natives.The mass appeal of this well-written, well-cast and well-directed series might consist in the fact that it makes the OVNI- and high-strangeness-infested world we live in seem...almost normal. Indeed the look of this series is rather homey, with all the support-group and romance (including alien-human as well as cybernetic, in the case of a teledildonically controlled fembot, functioning as Jeff's raging alter ego on earth).What is there not to like about People of Earth. Well for one, it only ran to ten episodes, but I suppose that befits a quirky, very-well written series like this. Also it's set in our very own Hudson Valley, a major UFO hotspot on the planet, but filmed in...Ontario? Let them film in my area. We have some old church basements and bucolic scenes and such.

s3276169 Isn't it awful when you want to like something but the most you can come up with is, "its alright".People of Earth looks promising but at the end of the day, somehow, I just can't get excited about this one. Perhaps its the fact the aliens all sound like Americans? Why? They are aliens after all. A less petty grumble is the whole thing is really not that funny. Its rather bland humour that, for me, falls flat. If it had a little more Hitch Hikers Guide injected it might work better but sadly that's just not the case here. What you have instead is your run of the mill, mostly unfunny, US comedy show, with an alien make over. All in all, looks exciting but, well, its not. Five out of ten from me.

britishtourist PEOPLE OF EARTH...I really LOVE this show. I think it's so refreshing for night time TV entertainment. Outstanding writing and creativity in each episode. It has so many different characters in it that you can't wait to see what each of them is doing and how they resolve their personal dilemmas. It's a show that surprises you and keeps you laughing at each character's reaction to their own surprises. Each actor knows their character so well you forget they are acting. The story line is so different from anything I have seen on TV in a really long time and offers up GREAT interest for me in future shows. Please tell me this will be coming back on soon.... and THANKS so much for the FUN hours of laughter.

John Citizen I'm so glad I Found this show. It is uplifting,really,really funny, quirky,original,and poignant. The pace is just right,and is never boring, but moves along with wonderfully feel-good humor. I am so pleasantly surprised at this show. I really never expected a show about a support group for alien abductees to interest me.But the funny and heart warming characters have totally abducted me and now I'm hooked . When I try to put in words why I like the show so much it is difficult. But there is a magic about it that just works. The Swedish alien is great. It deftly explores our quirky nature and in the process gives us a different and refreshing perspective on what makes us human.