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Season 1
- Jeanine Mason as Liz Ortecho
- Nathan Dean Parsons as Max Evans
- Michael Vlamis as Michael Guerin
- Lily Cowles as Isobel Evans Bracken
- Tyler Blackburn as Alex Manes
- Heather Hemmens as Maria DeLuca
- Michael Trevino ( Vampire Diaries ) as Dr. Kyle Valenti
- Trevor St. John as Master Sgt. Jesse Manes
- Karan Oberoi as Noah Bracken
- William Greely as Deputy Andrews
- Rosa Arredondo as Sheriff Valenti
- Amber Midthunder as Rosa Ortecho
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 15 Jan 19
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) returns to her home town of Roswell, New Mexico. She was at Colorado University where she got three degrees, unlike the original who was a High School pupil.
Instead of having an idyllic High School experience ten years ago, Liz left because her sister Rosa Ortecho ( Amber Midthunder ) was a drug addict who died while driving under the influence. Worse, there were two other girls in the car with her who also failed to survive the crash. This horrific event sets the tone for the show's storyline, as Liz seeks to uncover the truth behind her sister's death.
The main characters all participate in Millennial hook-up culture. Liz and Deputy Max Evans (Nathan Dean Parsons) may be meant to be a romantic duo, but until they form the perfect relationship they will sleep with others. Max is bang buddies with his partner, Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ), in an unhealthy workplace romance. Liz has ditched her fiance in Colorado and now hooks up with her High School boyfriend, Dr. Kyle Valenti (Michael Trevino - Vampire Diaries ).
To add to the sexual trysts, Michael hooks up ... with Alex! Yes, a quarter of the male characters are gay dudes.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 2]
So Much for the Afterglow
Shown 22 Jan 19
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) has learned a secret. Deputy Max Evans (Nathan Dean Parsons) is an alien with a superpower that lets him heal people ... or potentially to kill them. His sister Isobel Evans Bracken ( Lily Cowles ) and friend Michael Guerin (Michael Vlamis - ) try to intimidate her in order to keep her silent.
It is the ten year anniversary of the car crash that killed Rosa Ortecho ( Amber Midthunder ) and her two friends. Max and his partner, Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ), go to harrass the grieving families of Rosa's victims. Not Liz and her father, of course, who are part of the privileged Mexican elite who run the town. Instead the cops punch down, targeting the marginalised blue-collar workers who have been in trouble with the law since the day they were born.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Tearin' Up My Heart
Shown 29 Jan 19
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) suspects Max is responsible for her sister's death. Dr. Kyle Valenti (Michael Trevino - Vampire Diaries ) helps her investigate. He is secretly working with the Master Sergeant, a non-commissioned officer in the US Air Force who is somehow responsible for the secret MIB unit code-named Operation Shepherd.
The main characters pair off at the drive-in movie theatre. Isobel tries to Inception Liz, with unexpected results.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Shown 05 Feb 19
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) interviews Frederico, her sister's former boyfriend/drug-dealer. She discovers valuable clues about her sister's final days, including her intention to leave town and her attempts to break her addiction to drugs.
Max visits the hospital, which he put out of action when he accidentally fried the town's power grid. All he can offer the patients is Thoughts and prayers, and his frustration at his helplessness leads him to mock the idea of throwing paper towels at the victims. Combined with Isobel's attempt to disrespect a white man by referring to him as Mr All Lives Matter, it is pretty clear the political agenda this show is pushing.
With the town victim to an alien-originated blackout, the local authorities need all the help they can get. Unfortunately the Sheriff ( Rosa Arredondo ) was elected to her office, a popularity contest that she only won because she was the widow of the previous office-holder. She bears a grudge against the USAF Master-Sergeant, because he was a rival of her deceased husband. The Master-Sergeant looks for help from Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) instead. Not only is she ex-military, she also has a friend who needs strings pulled for them.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Don't Speak
Shown 12 Feb 19
Isobel Evans Bracken ( Lily Cowles ) wakes up alone in the desert, after another blackout. Max and Michael go looking for her.
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) interviews for a research job at the local hospital. Despite being a Mexican, and thus raised Catholic, she apparently has no issues with stem-cell research.
Kyle goes to his father's old hunting cabin, where there may be a secret stash of research materials. It turns out that Alex has been staying there since he moved back. They start to bond over childhood memories, which allows Alex to wallow in self-pity at his victimhood. He states that when Kyle hit puperty he became a nightmarish Bro-Jock, a typically negative use of the positive abreviation for Brother.
Liz interrogates the local conspiracy theorist, Grant Green, about what he saw on the night of her sister's death. It turns out that he is deliberately issuing misinformation.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Shown 26 Feb 19
This episode is a flashback to the characters' teenage years. It starts in 2004, when Max commits the first of his murders. Luckily the victim is an old straight white man, rather than an illegal immigrant from across the border.
In the bookend sequence, Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) demands to know more about the death of her sister. Max gives a flashback to April 2008, just Prom Night. Alex the gay boy referred to Kyle the quarterpounder as a High School cliche, which makes him a hypocrite. In all fairness, Kyle was happy to be one person with his buddies but to use a different identity choice while with his girlfriend Liz.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 7]
I Saw the Sign
Shown 05 Mar 19
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) has a suspect to blame for her sister's death. She cannot go public with the news, because her father is an illegal immigrant and the publicity may get him expelled from the country. Instead she uses her science skills to weaponise a cure for the aliens' superpowers.
Max complains that a suspect is in hospital instead of a coffin-sized jail cell. Ignoring the irony that Max is the one who hospitalised the man, the supposedly heroic cop procedes to torture the suspect. Apparently Police brutality is only wrong if the victim is other than a straight-acting white-looking male.
Maria, supposedly Liz's best friend, actually gets some screen time. She is busy running a few businesses and looking after her mother, who is suffering from a strange form of alzheimers. The doctors have been unable to give a proper diagnosis, but they are rich old white men so they must be incompetent.
Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) recognises the suspect's doodle as a match for Max's tattoo. She begins to put things together. Will she sell her ex-lover out to the MIBs?
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 8]
Barely Breathing
Shown 12 Mar 19
Ann Evans ( Claudia Black ), foster-mother of Max and Isobel Evans Bracken ( Lily Cowles ), is in town. Max has to explain to her why Isobel is in an asylum, and tries to get some clues from his foster-mother.
Alex the gay airman beats his father unconscious, and procedes to blackmail and extort him. The goal is to shut down Project Shepherd, the operation to protect Earth from alien invaders. One of the suspected aliens is Alex's gay lover, and Alex values his own sex life more than the safety of the entire planet.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 9]
Songs About Texas
Shown 19 Mar 19
This picks up six weeks after the events of the previous episode. Isobel Evans Bracken ( Lily Cowles ) is still secretly trapped in a stasis pod. Her husband has reported her missing to the Sheriff, naming her brother Max as the main suspect in her disappearance.
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) has finished the new batch of antidote. She and her best buddy Maria DeLuca go to a Native American medicine show. So do Max and Michael. The males and females pair off and start to re-establish their relationships.
The Native American girl is a con-woman who only pretends to have alien superpowers. She plays the victim card by saying don't lecture an indigenous woman about cultural appropriation. Then she procedes to blame her own victims for being so stupid that they deserve to be robbed. Well, the irony is that the rural white poor are the ones who benefit the most from Obamacare, and yet they vote against it and then end up going to con-artists instead of actual doctors.
Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) was left under orders to spy on gay Alex and report back to his father. Instead she decides to do exactly the opposite. It turns out that Project Shepherd was investigating a genuine alien threat. There are fourteen mysterious deaths in the Roswell area, which means there is an alien serial killer (or gang of killers) on the loose.
Jenna and Alex invite Dr. Kyle Valenti (Michael Trevino - Vampire Diaries ) to join their investigatory team. They do not bother to involve any actual grown-ups. Yes, this tweenage scooby gang is taking over instead of letting the US Federal government do its job.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 10]
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Shown 26 Mar 19
Isobel Evans Bracken ( Lily Cowles ) is out of the coma. Although she was only gone a few months, she is shocked that Trump is still President. Now she starts to get her memory back of her friendship with Rosa Ortecho ( Amber Midthunder ).
Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) tries to help Isobel. Unfortunately her lab is targeted by a gun-toting saboteur.
Max Evans and Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) investigate the serial killer case. They interrogate Racist Hank, a poverty-stricken alcoholic white man who is part of a terribly untalented band.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 11]
Champagne Supernova
Shown 09 Apr 19
The regular characters are hunting a serial killer who has killed fourteen people that they know of. Whoever it is can possess people while they are unconscious, like in Red Mist (2006) .
Deputy Max Evans (Nathan Dean Parsons) and his partner Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) have someone in custody who is willing to make a deal. The cops want info so they can catch the killer, but are they honest enough to uphold their duty and keep their end of the bargain?
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 12]
Creep
Shown 16 Apr 19
Rather than do her job as a waitress, Liz ( Jeanine Mason ) just a socialises with Dr. Kyle Valenti (Michael Trevino - Vampire Diaries ) and gives him exposition. Then he teams up with Michael and Alex, who locate an infiltrate a secret US Federal prison named Caulfield. This leads Michael to his mother, Mara ( Kayla Ewell ).
The serial killer is dying because of the potion Liz created. She wants to administer the antidote, because she does not want to have blood on her hands. Deputy Max Evans (Nathan Dean Parsons) and his partner Deputy Jenna Cameron ( Riley Voelkel ) are more than happy to be murderers.
The morality of the episode seems a bit mixed. From the Serial Killer's perspective, the aliens were refugees ... although they get stronger when they kill. In response, the US government is more than happy to kill all the aliens it holds in captivity rather than risk letting them escape. Meanwhile the so-called hero, Max, is willing to murder one of his own kind.
Roswell, New Mexico (2019) [Season 1, Episode 13]
Recovering the Satellites
Shown 23 Apr 19
The serial killer is on the loose again, and Deputy Max has to hunt him down. This illustrates how the show has been upgraded from the original Young Adult version. Previously the characters were teenagers played by twenty-somethings, but now we see thirty-year-olds playing their real age rather than ten years younger. The original Max was a moral young man who used his alien superpower to knock people off their feet, while the new version is a violent cop who solves his problems with a pistol.
Dr. Kyle Valenti (Michael Trevino - Vampire Diaries ) knows who murdered his father, and considers buying a pistol of his own. The gun-shop owner tells him there is no background check, even though one is federally mandated, and actually offers him as ten percent discount when Kyle shares his story of a revenge quest.
Most of the plot threads are tied up, and we get a slow-play version of the original show's theme song. The end has a couple of massive twists.
