Ellen Gray | ‘Aliens’ takes a cheap shot against Christianity

Carolyn Hileman* | December 12, 2007 

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Even if you’re a Pakistani Muslim, like Raja (Adhir Kalyan), the serenely spiritual exchange student on the CW’s “Aliens in America,” which tonight uses its Christmas episode to try to make a slightly provocative point about Christian America. Too bad it uses a sledgehammer. Up until now, I’ve been fine with “Aliens’ ” stereotyping of Raja’s host family, the Tolchuks, and their Wisconsin neighbors as shallow, xenophobic but basically goodhearted people who can learn a lot from Raja, a 16-year-old orphan who’s smart, funny and a bit of a goody two-shoes. When the show premiered, some inveighed against its portrait of middle America, but middle America, I figured, could take it. I did worry that Raja was a little too good to be true and that the Tolchuks were learning far more from him than he from them. Trade imbalances are never a good thing.

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