Tales from the Darkside - Season 4 Episode 17 Going Native
An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings. The alien, who resembles a normal Earth female, meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities, simultaneously fascinated with and disgusted by the disarray and degeneration depicted in the pictures. The alien joins a therapeutic support group in an effort to better understand the seemingly contradictory humans. As she develops personal relationships with each group member, she begins to further understand the origin of and reasons for the behavior of humans, albeit from an outside observer's vantage point. The other members of the group see the alien as distant and detached, a condition that they assume is rooted in a self-denial complex. As the alien speaks at one of the group meetings, she suddenly realizes that she has been experiencing the exact same feelings as the humans that she has been studying. She has become human-like through assimilation, trapped within the emotional shell of ano
Year: 1988
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Country: United States of America
Studio: Syndication
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Paul Sparer
First Air Date: Sep 30, 1984
Last Air date: Jul 23, 1988
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 89 Episode
Runtime: 20 minutes
IMDb: 7.20/10 by 78.00 users
Popularity: 61.505
Language: English
Keyword : anthology, horror anthology