If feels like it’s just a show that’s had its script translated through a few languages. It loses the premise of the comics, that premise being: Blue Aliens say something differently - and leave the reader thinking “wow, we humans do perceive, and act weird” or “That’s how I see it too” or “wow, these aliens show a better way of looking at things”.

But in Strange Planet TV, this does not happen. The effect is lost because there’s no “straight man” to play off. We the flawed human before reading the comic aren’t represented in the cast. There’s no straight man to compare normalities to.

Basically there have been shows that get the premise right: Mork and Mindy (1978), Perfect Strangers (1986), Alf (1986), even Alien Nation (1988), and the Fifth Element (1997) use part of this same premise. All those shows have comedy beats (to varying degrees), where the “Alien” character sees the world differently (A bit like trying to explain something to Kramer from Seinfeld).

Strange Planet TV doesn’t bother showing this contrast of understandings. It’s just a show where all the people are blue. It fails to capture its own premise.