http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/03/ALIENS-IN-AMERICA----Pilot-Episode.aspx Imagine your lowest social moment in high school.  Now multiply that by fifty-thousand and you have the basic social standing for Justin (Dan Byrd) our tragic protagonist & high school junior.  The problem with Justin is his unflagging hope to end his run as the school dork.  His mother, Franny (Amy Pietz), perpetuates this problem by falsely building up her son’s ego.  The first day of Justin’s junior year of high school things appear to be working out.  He avoids the ritualistic beating, he’s invited to join the conversation going on in the locker room (even if it’s about how someone slept with his sister), and he’s placed on the Senior’s Ten Most Bangable Girls list.  This nomination solidifies the end to any hope he’d have at being anything other than the class joke.   His sister Claire takes the third place spot on the list, and after his mother complains to the guidance counselor Justin moves from eighth place to sixth. If there was ever any hope for his social life it was fleeing from Justin’s grasp at warp speed.  During a conference with Justin’s high school counselor his parents are talked into becoming a host family for an exchange student.  It will give Justin someone to bond with and revive his public persona. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/03/ALIENS-IN-AMERICA----Pilot-Episode.aspx 77 60