About Roswell
In the desert town of Roswell, New Mexico, teenage waitress Liz Parker is gunned down by a stray bullet in her parents' diner and brought back to life by a quiet classmate who presses his hand to her wound and heals her on the spot. That single act of mercy shatters the ordinary surface of her life and pulls her into a secret she was never meant to know: three of her schoolmates are not human at all, but survivors of the 1947 crash who have spent their whole lives passing as small-town kids.
The series braids tender first love with mounting dread as the aliens hide from a relentless FBI special unit, suspicious sheriffs, and shape-shifting enemies who want them dead or worse. Liz, her best friend Maria, and the doubting Kyle become keepers of a secret that endangers everyone they touch, while the alien trio wrestle with a destiny written before they were born and a home planet they can barely remember. Every kiss carries a cost, and every revelation widens the circle of people who could expose them.
Equal parts heartfelt teen melodrama and paranoid sci-fi thriller, Roswell asks what it means to belong when you are built to be hunted, and whether love can survive a truth this heavy. The show became a fierce cult favorite, its fans famously rallying with bottles of Tabasco sauce to keep it on the air, and it remains a touchstone of turn-of-the-millennium genre television. It stars Shiri Appleby as Liz Parker and Jason Behr as the alien who loves her, Max Evans.