Distributor:
Fox Home Entertainment Certificate: PG | 22x50
Minutes
Director:
Release Date: 4 August 2004 | Buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Jason
Behr, Shiri Appleby, Katherine Heigl, Colin (son of Tom) Hanks, William
Sadler
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
The
town of Roswell, New Mexico is
the epicentre of for all things
spaceships and UFO related, when
Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) is
shot fellow high school student
Max Evans (Joasn Behr)
miraculously heals her and
reveals his true alien origins,
also revealed to be aliens are
Max’s sister Isabel (Katherine
Heigl) and their friend Michael.
Whilst
trying to keep their identities
secret Max and Co also search
for clues into their alien past.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
In
1947 an alien spaceship supposedly crash landed in Roswell which the US
Government then proceeded to cover up, this forms the back story for
entertaining and intelligent scifi drama series Roswell.
This
6 disc set gives us all 22 episodes of season one and whilst it can at
times seem like a sci-fi Dawson’s Creek, Roswell is always
interesting. At the heart of the series is the dynamic between Max and
Liz and their growing relationship and Max’s attempt to discover more
about his alien roots especially as the town sheriff (a malevolent
William Sadler) has reasons of his own for wanting to get at the true
facts about Roswell.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Heaps.
AREA 51 is a featurette taking you behind the scenes of the show
including interviews with cast and crew; THE MAKING OF ROSWELL HIGH is
an interview with authors Melina Metz and Laura Burns who came up with
the Roswell High series of novels on which the series is actually based;
Audition footage of Emilie de Ravin as Tess; The music video for Save
Yourself by Sense Field (these are all on disc six) whilst disc one
features a deleted scene from the Pilot and an audio commentary on the
pilot by show creators Jason Katins and David Nutter.
