The CW has released a three-and-a-half minute trailer for Star-Crossed – the series about a romance between a human girl and an alien boy in high school. The aliens of Star-Crossed are kinda like the aliens in later Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – you can tell they’re aliens because they have designs painted on their faces, and the introduction of the alien kids being brought into their new school while armed forces keep the crowds of unhappy locals from lynching them is a painful allegory for the first black kids being bussed in to white schools in the sixties.
Somehow, the show seems to want to be a hybrid of Romeo and Juliet, Beauty and the Beast (hey, if a dainty scar and anger management issues make the new Vincent a beast…) and a statement about tolerance. A short trailer can’t really sell all that, but it is certainly an intriguing piece of work.
Check it out following the jump.