Roswell

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Season 1
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 25
  3. Negative: 4 out of 25
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  1. zkonedog
    Mar 4, 2017
    4
    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    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.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

5
#5 Best TV Season of 1999
7
#7 Most Discussed TV Season of 1999
10
#10 Most Shared TV Season of 1999

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Steve Johnson
    Feb 6, 2014
    60
    Roswell is, really, not bad. But in a prime-time universe crowded with quality dramas in general and quality supernatural dramas in particular, pretty good is not quite good enough. [4 Oct 1999, p.T1]
  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Joyce Millman
    Feb 6, 2014
    90
    What grabs you about Roswell is its lyrical depiction of being 16 and in love and feeling like everything you thought you knew about yourself has become alien to you. [4 Oct 1999]
  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Feb 6, 2014
    80
    Involving, enjoyable TV. [5 Oct 1999, p.D6]
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