Early Roswell review in People

I found this in People Online:

PICKS AND PANS TUBE: ROSWELL

October 18, 1999
by Terry Kelleher

“Okay, I’m still confused,” human high-schooler Liz (Shiri Appleby) says to alien classmate Max (Jason Behr) in episode two of this drama series. “If you really crash-landed in 1947, are you really 16 or are you like 52 in a 16-year-old’s body?” Max, an ostensible earthling who confided his extraterrestrial origin to Liz in the Oct. 6 pilot, replies with some nonsense about emerging from an incubation pod in Roswell, N.Mex., in 1989. But here’s all the explanation anyone needs: Teen shows are the rage this season; it’s handy to combine elements of The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer;and hey, logic is irrelevant.

Though it seems a product of calculation more than inspiration, Roswellhas appeal. There’s a sweetness to the two-different-worlds romance of Liz and Max, and you’ll appreciate the plight of Michael (Brendan Fehr), a less friendly teen alien stuck in a trailer park with a nasty human foster father. But Liz’s voice-over diary entries are dispensable, and Majandra Delfino provides too little comic relief as Maria, her self-described “wacky friend.”

Bottom Line: Contrived but intriguing