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 enlarge | Directors: Allan Kroeker, Allison Liddi, Arvin Brown, Bill L. Norton, Bruce Seth Green
Actors: Shiri Appleby, Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Majandra Delfino, Brendan Fehr
Studio: United Paramount Network (UPN)
Category: DVD
List Price: $119.94
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 9144
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Discs: 17
Number Of Discs: 17
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 2.9
UPC: 024543410126
EAN: 0024543410126
ASIN: B000JJ6K0Q
Theatrical Release Date: October 6, 1999
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Rosewell August 17, 2008
Eugene G. Pierce
I've become a little obsessive about the series Rosewell. In the beginnig it is a real retelling of the Tragedy of Romeo and Julliet, complete with balcony scenes, which they allude to in the series. Very powerful and in these days not believable, the writers going to extremes to have the main characters not consumate their relationship, including a time travel expisode to stop them. Still, I like the main characters well enough to continue on to find out what happens. The later part of the series the Sci-Fi takes over, but the establishment of the earlier rapport between the viewer and the cast allows the story to be carried forward with the viewer's intrest not diminishing. I like the series.
 A fair to decent show. August 4, 2008
Chris Youngblood (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Allot can be said about the teen drama's that have ruled the airwaves for years now and here is my take of this teen drama. It seems to me that Roswell was trying to capitalize off the success of Dawson's Creek. Except this teen drama had a sci-fi twist. All in all this show was not half bad. It had it's hokey moment's and it had it's triumphs. Lead actress Shiri Appleby looked remarkably similar to Katie Holmes and the gorgeous Katherine Heigl used her looks and sex appeal often during the show just as Michelle Williams (Jenn Lindley) did in Dawson's Creek. The stand out performer in the show was William Sadler (Sheriff Valenti) which would not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with this actor and his work. The show takes some bizarre twists and ends up backing up on its self a time or two but was surprisingly entertaining. The complete three seasons is a bit of a wild roller coaster ride with quite a few surprises surprisingly. So you get the attractive cast with Majandra Delfino who went from ugly and homely to knockout status in a span of a summer and the gorgeous Emilie de Ravin in her "Pre-Lost" days and the equally attractive male cast who actually did a fairly good job of acting. However this show was doomed from the beginning as the network and the creator/producers of the show could never agree which direction to take the show. This made for some fairly absurd story lines and abrupt endings to interesting story lines. This show was not sure what it wanted to be. But yet...it is a bit of a guilty pleasure in it's own right. The first season was the best and the show was fair to decent from then on with a bit of a disappointing series finale.
unexpected August 1, 2008
Donna Mccool (Texas)
We didn't watch this until 2007. I guess the title threw us off. So much about Roswell and it didn't get our interest. It is a series that deserves to be known. We found new stars and some good acting. It had a fresh appeal with the story line for SciFi fans. You should give it a try.
 Flawed but excellent series..well worth owning July 9, 2008
S-F TV addict (Houston TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didn't get this full set, but the individual seasons in box set, since I never saw the show on TV, and was originally sceptical about whether it would be worth getting; got Season 1 to see what it was about. By the end of the first show I was hooked; as others have said, Season 1 was the best due to the depth and reality of the character interactions, with enough action/sf to keep things moving. Without putting in any spoilers, there were episodes in the later seasons that weren't worthy of the total effort, the "off world" story was weak (like Flash Gordon, say) and there were major "out of character" moments, and some excessive revisiting of previous angst..and boy, there was a lot of angst. As I remember being a teenager, they did a good job of recreating that age.. idealism greater than adulthood, more sweetness, less selfishness, more awkwardness, etc. Unusually for a TV series, you really get involved with the 3 dimensional characters, and much of the plot seems true to real life. As others have also said, that's what makes the brain-farts on the part of the writers more irritating when they occur. In spite of the flaws, some sloppy (Michael forgetting Max's name late in Season 1; using California foothill landscape for New Mexico, etc.) and some deeper as mentioned above, the whole series hangs together and preserves its punch right through to end, which is generally satisfying. Life is tough; it's bitter sweet but it beats the heck out of the alternative. If you like the premise of "alien" teenagers and an in-depth exploration of the combination of romance/melodrama/s-f I would highly recommend this series. It handled all the elements imaginatively and almost always kept me caring about the characters. Not perfect but up there with Stargate, Dark Angel, etc. and better in terms of the deeper exploration of human interaction. That said, this is much less action/adventure oriented than Stargate etc. so if you want heavy plot driven action show this isn't what you're after.
Buy it and enjoy the emotional rollercoaster and inventive sidelights. You keep thinking it's about to slide away down a rathole but it never does.
Roswell: an underrated gem June 5, 2008
Donna Przybylowicz (Berkeley, CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had watched parts of this series when it first aired with my young daughter. She wanted to see it again--she is now in college. Both of us felt it was a riveting and a very well done show--the plot was intricate, and the characters were excellent. As an adult, I completely enjoyed it--a lot of fun.
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