SummaryRoswell is about teenage alien/human hybrids living in Roswell, New Mexico who attempted to survive as humans and hide their alien sides, while trying to learn more about their alien powers, as well as figuring out how to get home. Roswell intertwined romance and science fiction that always kept you guessing. BOOK SERIES:
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SummaryRoswell is about teenage alien/human hybrids living in Roswell, New Mexico who attempted to survive as humans and hide their alien sides, while trying to learn more about their alien powers, as well as figuring out how to get home. Roswell intertwined romance and science fiction that always kept you guessing. BOOK SERIES:
The television...
Under the guise of fantasy, Roswell manages to be insightful, profound, romantic, eerie, mysterious and funny. It artfully uses the alien characters as engaging stand-ins for countless teenagers who, rebelling against pressures to conform, feel like beings from another planet. [6 Oct 1999, p.1E]
Sweet and intelligent...A genre-bender if ever there was one, Roswell takes the "Romeo and Juliet" love story, dresses it in "Rebel Without a Cause" Americana, and then gives the whole thing an "X-Files" twist. The show is a long, long way from "My Favorite Martian" and "Mork & Mindy." [6 Oct 1999, p.E1]
Like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which also has mined adolescent alienation for ratings gold, Roswell promises to be wise, witty and watchable beyond its ostensible years. [6 Oct 1999, p.91]
Roswell isn't yet anywhere near [The X-]Files in emotional depth, and its sympathetic but blank-staring actors only make you appreciate the nuances that Duchovny and Anderson bring to poker-faced emoting. But if this season proves The X-Files' last, there's a chance that Roswell can step into the void and supply TV's highest-quality heebie-jeebies.
In an ideal world, Katims and Nutter would have taken the best elements from their previous series: the keen insight into teen behavior of "My So-Called Life" and the inventive storytelling of "The X-Files." Unfortunately, Roswell gets it backwards, using both the self-importance of the former and the paper-thin characterization of the latter. [6 Oct 1999, p.73]
There is something magical about this first season. Great acting all around, particularly from (then) newcomer Brendan Fehr. Just right combination of mystery/suspense/romance.
One of the better supernatural teen shows of this era - the romantic leads are handicapped by the fact that the aliens can't meld with the humans in any ordinary way, but that also brings some heat to the proceedings. Sadler is great in his typical supporting role.
I bought this first season of "Roswell" as a gift for my 15-year old sister, thinking that her and I could watch it together. After the first two discs, I was done with the teen drama and sluggish dialogue/plots. She finished the entire season in the span of a weekend.
For a basic plot summary, "Roswell" is set up by a shooting in a cafe outside Roswell, New Mexico. Teenage waitress Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) is hit by a stray bullet by then miraculous healed by fellow high school student Max Evans (Jason Behr). What Liz quickly discovers is that Max, along with sister Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and friend Michael (Brendan Fehr), is an alien with special powers of healing and insight.
I had a hunch that this show would appeal to the teen set, and I was completely right on that front. It's simple plotlines, love triangles, and cast of beautiful people easily hooked in my sister. She can't get enough of it!
For me, though, I thought that the "alien/conspiracy" aspect (being a big fan of X-Files-type fare) would be more interesting. However, it is just too slow-moving and badly acted (at least in the early goings) for me to stick with it.
I rarely review something like this until I "finish the experience", but after about eight episodes I had had enough. Maybe the show gets better in the later episodes (from the little bits of caught of my sister watching that seems to be at least somewhat the case) and I "jumped ship" too early. Regardless, this is a show almost completely marketed to and created for teens, so if you can't stomach that sort of drama then I wouldn't bother with it.
Bien que très mal exploitée, une assez bonne idée de départ, à savoir le contre-pied d’X-Files : ne pas partir à la chasse des proctologues de l’espace mais plutôt raconter leur arrivée et leur infiltration sur Terre…
Sauf que c’est raconté ici comme une sitcom de merde avec une réalisation très bas de gamme et une distribution composée » uniquement de **** cons et de petites connes qui jouent comme des pieds…
De fait, la série s’avère terriblement neuneu et gnangnan, on dirait la petite maison dans la prairie… (à Roswell). Dommage donc d’en avoir fait une pauvre série pour ados idiots : un choix aussi stupide que rédhibitoire !
Good premise, but the political undertones turned me off. Mason's character does not benefit from her snarling about social injustice. Last thing I want to be subjected to when trying to enjoy "fantasy tv".