Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) and Maria DeLuca (Majandra Delfino) are teen best friends working as waitresses in a Roswell diner. Alex Whitman (Colin Hanks) is their geeky best friend. Liz dated Sheriff Jim Valenti (William Sadler)'s son Kyle (Nick Wechsler). A shooting leaves Liz mortally wounded. Max Evans (Jason Behr) saves her life with his touch. She discovers that he's an alien. He, his sister Isabel Evans (Katherine Heigl) and best friend Michael Guerin (Brendan Fehr) are all space aliens. They love Tabasco sauce and have special powers. The last few episodes of the first season sees the arrival of new student Tess Harding (Emilie de Ravin).
The pilot is basically Twilight with aliens. A mysterious brooding boy miraculously rescues a girl. They find a deep unbreakable connection. It is teen girl catnip and it's such a great start. Maria is hilarious in the secondary relationship with Michael. Then the struggle begins. There is always a temptation to add more and more sci-fi conspiracy exposition to everything. It doesn't feel well thought out. The FBI stuff is already pushing to the limits but they had to pile on Native stuff. The conspiracy never stops. By the end of the first year, the show is running into problems of being too convoluted. It's not insurmountable but the second season doubles down on it. It becomes mostly about sci-fi mystery thriller. It piles on time travel, interstellar politics, superpowers, alien hunters and spaceship with crystals. The second season ends on life support. The third year is really just a throwaway season and not worth watching after losing a couple of the characters.
The pilot is basically Twilight with aliens. A mysterious brooding boy miraculously rescues a girl. They find a deep unbreakable connection. It is teen girl catnip and it's such a great start. Maria is hilarious in the secondary relationship with Michael. Then the struggle begins. There is always a temptation to add more and more sci-fi conspiracy exposition to everything. It doesn't feel well thought out. The FBI stuff is already pushing to the limits but they had to pile on Native stuff. The conspiracy never stops. By the end of the first year, the show is running into problems of being too convoluted. It's not insurmountable but the second season doubles down on it. It becomes mostly about sci-fi mystery thriller. It piles on time travel, interstellar politics, superpowers, alien hunters and spaceship with crystals. The second season ends on life support. The third year is really just a throwaway season and not worth watching after losing a couple of the characters.