Best-bets for July 25: scary alien, quirky housemates

1) “Resident Alien,” 10 p.m., USA and Syfy. Things are unfolding quickly. Last week, Harry finally got his alien persona (shown here in a previous episode) back … just as the mayor and his wife arrived; they hadn’t known that the town doctor is also is a 12-foot-tall alien. We also learned that the Mantid has assumed the body of an FBI agent. Now Harry enlists an unlikely ally, trying to save the town. Read more…

1) “Resident Alien,” 10 p.m., USA and Syfy. Things are unfolding quickly. Last week, Harry finally got his alien persona (shown here in a previous episode) back … just as the mayor and his wife arrived; they hadn’t known that the town doctor is also is a 12-foot-tall alien. We also learned that the Mantid has assumed the body of an FBI agent. Now Harry enlists an unlikely ally, trying to save the town.

2) “Big Brother: Unlocked” debut, 8-9 p.m., CBS. “Big Brother” keeps growing. Its Wednesday episodes have expanded to 90 minutes. (Thursdays and Sundays remain at 60.) And this hour will appear on alternate Fridays; two previous winners, Taylor Hale and Derrick Levasseur — will host.

3) “Happy’s Place,” 8 p.m., NBC. Here’s the episode that introduced a key figure — the woman who had an affair with Happy, resulting in Bobbie’s half-sister Bella. Despite some excesses, it’s a fairly good mix of humor and emotion. Asecond episode finds Bella criticizing Steve’s accounting.

4) “Fire Country,” 9 p.m., CBS. It’s fun to be a Renaissance Faire fire-eater, we assume. But things might go bad, igniting a tent holding fireworks. That happens in this rerun; afterward, an “NCIS: Sydney” re-rerun starts with a car explosion and plunges into the world of conspiracy theories.

5) “Happy Gilmore 2,” Netflix. The original had Adam Sandler as a former hockey player who becomes a ,golfer, ignoring the game’s niceties. Now, 29 years later, he has the sequel. Other films range from Lindsay Lohan on Freeform (“The Parent Trap” and “Freaky Friday,” 5:50 and 8:55 p.m.) to “The Godfather,” at 8 p.m. on the Paramount Network.

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