EPISODE
SEASON
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1
It is a series of comedy events and the terrible scientific imagination we are living through a group of foreigners who have decided to plan to migrate to the Cookie to live with their people and their customs and so forth. It is good decision as they take a human form that gives them human emotions and physical needs in order to engage more with ordinary people. Things look different after a short period of time, as they do not recognize the inhibitions normally found in humans. As a result, all these people react unexpectedly and do not belong to ordinary people.
19 August 1952, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
December1981
20 December 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 September 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
13 November 1956, Spearman, Texas, USA
May 03, 2018
Lithgow is effortlessly funny doing silly physical comedy, everything from getting tipsy on cough medicine to squeezing into leather pants. And his chemistry with Jane Curtin, as a fellow academician, is charmingly light.
May 03, 2018
There have been worse shows on television, maybe worse shows from even more unexpected sources. But it's hard to imagine.
May 03, 2018
If you can get past the sense that somebody wrote much of this with a Victoria's Secret catalog close at hand, there's actually a charming and perceptive comedy lurking inside, a neat counterpoint to all those series about urbanites on the make.
May 03, 2018
The cast deserves more consistently funny material. Even extraterrestrials shouldn't have to work this hard for laughs.
April 25, 2018
The new comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun is potentially a hit the size of Jupiter, and played as broadly.
May 03, 2018
Cast generally rises above the material, with Lithgow a sort of cross between Steve Martin and Matt Frewer, and tall, raspy-voiced [Kristen] Johnston a real find. [Jane] Curtin is fine, but somewhat wasted as an uptight professor.
May 04, 2018
Intelligently written and well acted, 3rd Rock generates lots of laughs as viewers look at humanity through the aliens' unique point of view.
May 03, 2018
Sadly, Lithgow - one of our finer actors - is often reduced to over-the-top, scenery-chewing histrionics in "3rd Rock." If he isn't embarrassed by this show and his performance in it, he ought to be.
May 03, 2018
I'd love to recommend this show unreservedly but until its scripts improve a notch, it's more like an extended sketch, and I find myself caught between a "Rock" and a hard place.
May 03, 2018
Lots of gauche My Favorite Martian humor, but with '90s smut.

