Roswell, New Mexico
The cycle renews… The storm awakens.
Created by Carina Adly MacKenzie
On The CW
A serialized sci-fi romance that weaves alien mythology with contemporary anxieties about immigration and government surveillance, grounding cosmic stakes in intimate human connection.
After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer—he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
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