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Roswell: Complete Season 1 [2000]
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On the DVD: Roswell is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen. The special features include commentaries on six episodes by writer Jason Kanims, the directors and various of the cast as well as a featurette on the making of the show and another on its adaptation from the original Roswell High series of young adult novels. The commentaries are unusually insightful on the casting process and the discs also include the auditions for the part of Tess as well as a deleted scene and a music video. --Roz Kaveney
RRP: £39.99
Our Price: £23.40 (subject to change)
Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Opening with a Dido theme tune and featuring character-driven, sweet-natured melodrama, Roswell was a show with a surprisingly dedicated fan base, who twice won it reprieve from cancellation. One of its main strengths was, of course, the extent to which its premise--alien teenagers trying to sort out their identities while involved emotionally with their human contemporaries--was a free-floating metaphor for race and sexuality issues. Another was the strong ensemble that its cast developed; you believed in the strangeness of the alien trio and the well-intentioned normality of their three human friends. Jason Behr gave the alien Max a quiet authority and Majendra Delfino took the sidekick role of Maria and gave it both intensity and fine comic timing. It was also a show in which you were never sure what adults you could trust--William Sadleir trod a fine line of ambiguity as the local sheriff and Julie Benz was silkily sinister as an FBI agent. Anyone who ever loved this show will want these DVDs--and many others may want to find out what the fuss was about.
A wonderful show you want to watch all the time!
Review date: 2006-04-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
There is so much to like about Roswell, that you can watch the series over and over again. I have all three boxset series on DVD, but the first season is really special for me.
I liked all the characters at the Crashdown Cafe: Liz, Max, Maria, Michael, Isabel, Kyle, Sheriff Valenti and all. That's the beauty of the show: the characters, who you come to feel you know as you get caught up in their lives.
I especially loved the love story between Liz and Max (played by Shiri Appleby and Jason Behr), which was the inspiration for my song You Touch Me. Fans of the show seem to really like it, they tell me.
What makes Roswell different from other teen angst romance like Dawson's Creek is the really scary and spooky at times mix of X-Files-style sci-fi thriller. The storylines are really clever with twists and turns that keep you guessing and keep you on the edge of your seat. After watching the whole three series - one or two episodes a night for weeks with 60 odd in total - I didn't want it to end. I have only good things to say about this wonderful show that everyone should watch. So buy it - you won't be disappoined!
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Reviews
Sci-fi meets The OC
Review date: 2006-03-30 Rating: 4 out of 10
I love TV. The West Wing, Alias, The Sopranos... great stuff. Character development over years, cliff-hangers, off beat humour. But recently some sci-fi, particular Buffy The Vampire Slayer have scaled remarkable heights in making sci-fi, and 'teenage drama' engaging, challenging and humorous.
I heard Roswell compared to Buffy, which is why I purchased it. What I found was more comparable to The OC and other teenage dross. Overly emotional, predictable and contrived. Further hurt by characters that you can't relate to. "Broody guy", the mistreated rebel, the cute brunet, her ditzy friend. Buffy took these stereotypes and made fun of them, turned them on their heads, surprised you. Roswell plays it straight, and fails badly because of this.
It's maybe not aimed at me. It's maybe aimed at teenagers, and as such, the characters all look great, and their troubles may well seem more real to a teenage audience... but I would hope teenagers deserve (and demand) characters more real, more detail, and more unpredictable than this. And, also sticking with defence, the first series of Buffy was flawed, it took a couple of series to really 'mature'... but I just can't stand any more! Sorry.
The best Roswell season.
Review date: 2005-10-12 Rating: 10 out of 10
Season 1 is the best Roswell season: 5 stars. It begins with a mystery - Liz Parker is a bystander in a shoot-out, injured when an argument between two losers in her parent's café turns ugly. She's dying from gun-shot trauma, but dark, brooding Max Evans steps in and heals the wound. From that point on, Liz (and her friends Maria and Collin) become caught up in the secret lives of three 'adopted' alien-human hybrids, Max and Isabel Evans, and Michael Guerin. Pursued by a special FBI alien-hunting unit and the local sheriff (the excellent William Sadler) how will they keep the secret from spreading further? Dido' theme tune is good, but Sarah' McLaughlin's 'Fear' is great. A guilty pleasure.
A Great Story
Review date: 2005-03-10 Rating: 10 out of 10
This season is to introduce you to the characters and the involvement with one another. This is a great sc-fi story with some humour, romance and adventure.
I would highly recommend watching Roswell to anyone, doesnt matter what type of interests you have for watching a film/series.
Season 2 + 3 are great too, you just cant help but to keep watching. One to buy people!!
A life saver !!!!!!!!
Review date: 2004-11-23 Rating: 6 out of 10
I bought this item at www.amazon.co.uk in July and I have been watching it over and over again. I am completely hooked and I love it. The story line is both romantic, funny serious and sci fi all mixed in to one GREAT DVD!!!!!! Plus there are some real hottys to like Jason Behr as Max Evans Brendan Fehr as Michael Guerin and Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks son) as Alex Whitman. And for lads the girls are and pretty too like Shiri Appleby as Liz Parker Emilie de Ravinas Tess Harding Majandra Delfino
as Maria De Luca Katherine Heigl as Isabel Evans. Plus the them tune is to die for Here with me by Dido. Even though I am a loyal Buffy and Angel fan, I have to say that Roswell beats them it is one of the best programme I have ever seen and I AM IN LOVE WITH IT!!!! This DVD is a Defo. A must see. Defiantly deservers a 5 star rating *****
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jason Behr
Shiri Appleby
Brendan Fehr
Katherine Heigl
Majandra Delfino
Recording label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
EAN: 5039036016018
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 6
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2004-04-26
Number of discs: 6
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 990 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1999-10-06
Language: English (Original Language)