"Roswell" Summer DVD Review - "Heat Wave"

Roswell
"Heat Wave"

Season 1, Episode 9
Original Air Date: Dec 12, 1999

Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
victoria@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s December in Roswell and the temperature is in the 100s. A heat wave that everyone is blaming for the substantial uptake in libidos. As a viewer you have to wonder if the heat is causing the hormones to rise, or if it’s the other way around. Either way it’s infectious and couples begin to develop in the most unlikely characters like Maria’s mom and Sheriff Valenti. This episode was hot and heated up every storyline on the show along with it.

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"Roswell" DVD Review - Pilot Episode

Roswell
Pilot

DVD Season 1

Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
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“September 23. Journal entry 1. I’m Liz Parker and five days ago I died.”

Whoa! Best first lines of a TV show ever! How can that not draw you in?!

The scene after that is Liz Parker waitressing at The Crashdown Diner in Roswell, New Mexico. The diner’s taking full advantage of the alien rumors that surround the city and is decked out in full alien memorabilia and kitsch. Liz Parker and her best friend Maria DeLuca are even wearing Alien antenna headbands as they go about their duties serving food and hyping alien lore to unsuspecting tourists.

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Roswell - Summer DVD Bookclub

Roswell
Summer Review Intro

Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
victoria@thetwocentscorp.com

Did you think that sending nuts to CBS to save Jericho was innovative? Well, fans of the TV show Roswell sent Tobasco to the WB by the caseload. And I was one of those people. I sent my bottle all the way from Canada. Roswell opened me up to a new genre of shows that I had no idea I loved - teen angst sci fi. If it wasn’t for Roswell I never would have discovered Buffy or Angel (two of my all-time favourites) and it if wasn’t for Roswell’s executive producer Jason Katims, I may not have Friday Night Lights (which he also produces and is my favourite show of all time). I owe a lot Roswell, which is why I’m reviewing for the Summer DVD Book Club here at thetwocents.com.

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