History Series / TheAliens

* StraightGay: Dominic. At first he shows pretty undisguised attraction toward Lewis, who is [[IncompatibleOrientation not interested]]. A drug dealer he follows also turns out to be gay and an example as well though, inviting him off for sex. He accepts. Neither show any stereotypical traits of gay men.

* DisappearedDad: Antoine was this to Lewis, because he was imprisoned for decades on drug dealing charges. Lewis didn't even know about his real paternity for most of that though.

* MissingMom: Lewis' mum died, leaving him with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted sister (or step-father and half-sister, as he discovers). It seems likely the family would be less dysfunctional if she had lived.

* StraightGay: Dominic. At first he shows pretty undisguised attraction toward Lewis, who is [[IncompatibleOrientation not interested]]. A drug dealer he follows also turns out to be gay and an example as well though, inviting him off for sex. He accepts.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: All of the aliens speak English, even to each other. It is unknown if they have their own language, but as the younger generations are the children and grandchildren of the original aliens and were born on Earth, they could easily have grown up learning English as their first language.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: We get to see exactly what happens when Lewis pukes into his wastepaper basket.
** Happens again, this time to Dominic, in episode six, after he [[spoiler: kills someone for the first time]].

Enter Lewis Garvey (Creator/MichaelSocha), a human who is young enough to have never known of life before the aliens arrived. He lives a rather normal life, sharing a house with his alcoholic father and working as a border guard. Like most humans, Lewis has an ingrained dislike of the aliens, including his alien colleague, Dominic (Jim Howick), who really would rather Lewis did like him. But after an incident at work, he learns that he is the world's first half-alien, something that has, up until now, thought to have been impossible. And when alien Lilyhot (Creator/MichaelaCoel) tells him who his real father is, Lewis is dragged into the alien underworld, and causes conflicts that could change the way the British people think of the alien population.

Enter Lewis Garvey (Creator/MichaelSocha), a human who is young enough to have never known of life before the aliens arrived. He lives a rather normal life, sharing a house with his alcoholic father and working as a border guard. Like most humans, Lewis has an ingrained dislike of the aliens, including his alien colleague, Dominic (Jim Howick), who really would rather Lewis did like him. But after an incident at work, he learns that he is the world's first half-alien, something that has, up until now, thought to have been impossible. And when alien Lilyhot (Michaela Coel) tells him who his real father is, Lewis is dragged into the alien underworld, and causes conflicts that could change the way the British people think of the alien population.

Enter Lewis Garvey (Michael Socha), a human who is young enough to have never known of life before the aliens arrived. He lives a rather normal life, sharing a house with his alcoholic father and working as a border guard. Like most humans, Lewis has an ingrained dislike of the aliens, including his alien colleague, Dominic (Jim Howick), who really would rather Lewis did like him. But after an incident at work, he learns that he is the world's first half-alien, something that has, up until now, thought to have been impossible. And when alien Lilyhot (Michaela Coel) tells him who his real father is, Lewis is dragged into the alien underworld, and causes conflicts that could change the way the British people think of the alien population.

* YourCheatingHeart: Lewis' mother cheated on her husband with an alien, and conceived him in doing so.

* BritishBrevity: The show ran for only six episodes (given its cancellation, that's it).

The story follows life in Britain in an alternate universe, one where an alien spaceship crash landed off the British coast line in the 1970s, and the aliens subsequently integrated into the human population. The aliens, known as "Morks", look exactly like humans (with a few anatomical differences), but despite the similarity, the two species didn't get along. It was discovered that the aliens' body hair can be smoked as a hallucinogenic drug by humans, and many humans disliked their new neighbours. Because of these problems, a wall was erected in 1990, and since then the aliens have had to adhere to a strict curfew, along with wearing tags and being sprayed so their hair is unsmokeable.

Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-aliens-2016&episode=s01e04

* OnlyOneName: The aliens appear to not have surnames.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The way the aliens are treated is suspiciously similar to the current migration problems in Europe.

* MissingMom: Lewis' mum died, leaving him with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted sister (or step-father and half-sister, as he discovers). It seems likely the family would be less disfunctional if she had lived.

* PlayingSick: Dominic drinks bleach to make him sick so he can get off of work early.

* PottyFailure: Lewis learns that the "dog whistle" sound grenades that are used to incapacitate the aliens can have this effect on them when at a certain frequency.

* UrbanSegregation: Troy is a walled-off town where the aliens live separate from humans. It's a {{wretched hive}} abounding with crime and crushing poverty.

* MissingMom: Lewis' mum died, leaving him with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted sister (or step-father and half-sister, as he discovers), it seems likely the family would be less disfunctional if she had lived.

* StraightGay: Dominic. At first he shows pretty undisguised attraction toward Lewis, but he isn't interested. A drug dealer he follows also turns out to be gay and an example as well though, inviting him off for sex. He accepts.

* GagPenis: Alien men have far larger penises on average than human ones, according to Dominic. We [[MaleFrontalNudity later see]] with Fabien at least that it's true.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Dominic. It's not certain if he's gay or if he just fancies Lewis in particular.

* YourCheatingHeart: Lewis' mother cheated on her husband with an alien, leading to his conception.