megandenniston
Simply amazing, from the second I turned it on to the last episode (after which I didn't know what to do with myself) I literally couldn't stop watching. I needed up staying up til 3am watching its immense. Such a strong female lead with so many twists and turns. A show perfectly done- the writing, the acting, the costumes, etc. I'm still hoping for a spin off.
mrsdeejay-66452
First let me just say that I use IMDb all of the time but did not have an account this show made me make one.That said it was great for the first 2 seasons whichever season it was that she woke up in Japan or China and it was 2 years later I was ready to stop watching but I continued because of the way things were between Sydney and Vaughan when she got back to the states. That held my interest until season 4 started and now everyone who was good is working for the bad guy, he is over them, they report to him. SLOAN!!! He killed Sidney's fiancé, he killed Marcus's wife and a host of other people. Everyone vowed to kill him and/or wished him dead to his face up to the moment they started working FOR him. Really. I could deal with anything else but that. Every bad person goes to jail, makes demands and gets out. Her mother, Sloan, and Sark! They had her mother in custody and let her make demands to leave, to have access to a computer. That's just stupid!After reading about the rest of the episodes I don't feel like I want to watch to the end. I think I will keep it on while I work for background noise but it gets no more of my prime time watch time.*Update* I can't even use it for background noise every time I see Sloan leading a briefing I want to puke! Why make them look so stupid.
Ben Smith
What is the most pedestrian spy show on the planet? Alias. What has the most unanimously terrible acting, with the most unanimously terrible cast, and the most unanimously terrible writing? Alias. And its not like its even the sharknado kind of bad, making fun of this show puts a bad taste in my mouth because its not even comical bad, its just pathetically bad. Like the fact that this even had a budget makes me lose faith in humanity. Jennifer garner is just a terrible person, inside and out. Thats the impression i got. No one could possibly be that bad of an actor unless they didn't actually even understand human emotion. The entire show alternates between the whiny "WAHHHH, SPY FEELINGS ARE SO HARD." and "damn that Sloane, he's such a monster, oh, whoops, i accidentally trusted him again for the 80 billionth time, how could i have done that?" OH I Don't KNOW, MAYBE BECAUSE EVERY GODDAMN PERSON IN THIS SHOW IS A GODDAMN MORON. Fool you once, shame on Sloane, fool you twice, shame on you, fool you 80 billion times and i think your IQ must be in the negative. I don't even know if its possible to have a negative IQ, but they pulled it off. Trusting Sloane again only serves as a reusable plot device with no motivation, no reasoning, no explanation whatsoever as to how or why or on what planet its even possible for him to trick them AGAIN, but he still does it. And he's an unbelievable moron as well. Everyone in this show is a moron.I haven't even gotten started about the pedestrian comprehension of spy craft, the ridiculousness of how they actually believe it works. Its like that completely awful scene from CSI where there's two hackers typing on one keyboard because somehow having more hands on more keyboards makes you a better hacker only its ALL THE TIME. ALL THE TIME. 5 whole seasons of that. And nothing else. You think, maybe, just maybe, ONE interesting character will come along. ONE episode that doesn't feel like its raping my eyeballs and mind. But no. Not a single one. They even made Bradley cooper look bad. Marshall was the only mediocre character on the show, out of all of them he sucked the least, and they had moments where EVERYONE ELSE was like, Marshall, shut up, because they thought he was talking too much. I had to scream at my television, NO, YOU SHUT UP. YOU SHUT UP AND YOU DIE. ALL OF YOU. DIE. THAT YOU EVEN MADE IT THIS FAR WITHOUT A BULLET IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR HEADS IS A FLUKE, A MIRACLE OF NATURE, AND MARSHALL IS THE ONLY ONE OF YOU PEOPLE WHO HAS ANYTHING INTERESTING TO SAY AND **HES** SOMEHOW THE AWKWARD ONE. Might i add the fact that i don't believe for a second that Jennifer garner could seduce ANYONE, EVER. the fact that shes even the main character and people are always complimenting her on her beauty, her brains, her ability, none of which she even has, and the fact that they change the intro after season one to a bunch of moany sex noises and shots of her looking like a transsexual in different skimpy outfits, like they somehow think THAT is their selling point, shows just how out of touch they are. And i have to add, i'm usually a J.J. Abrams fan. Lost was pretty cool for a while, but they made some mistakes. Fringe was a masterpiece. Alias isn't worth a single glance. It is without a doubt, the worst thing i've seen, and that includes the room, bad lifetime movies, two girls one cup. OK, fine, i haven't seen two girls one cup but i still bet its better than this. The only way i got through it was by watching it along sides of NTSF:SD:SUV, most of the jokes in which are clearly referencing alias, and how bad it was. There is one scene where they spoof the whole flashback to college being approached by the thing piper is wearing that awful red wig Sydney had and she gets her eyebrows shaved off and Sam is like, wow, i really don't find you attractive anymore. My sentiments exactly.Even with all of the good stuff JJ Abrams has directed since then he has a LONG way to go to make up for how terrible this show was. If he knows whats good for him, he will pay someone to create a super virus to wipe alias from the internet entirely, and raid peoples homes burning their ancient DVD collections. That would be the best episode of alias ever.
Roedy Green
This high budget TV show. It uses lush, dramatic, international sets.The plot has layers upon layers. It is like the old Saturday afternoon serials, ending each episode with a cliff hanger. I think this show is primarily the work of women. Our heroine, Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, dresses in elaborate high-fashion costumes, makeup and hair barely recognisable each time. There are plenty of handsome charming young men who adore her. The focus is on relationships.Jennifer Garner runs for miles at top speed in every episode. The stunts are well done. It appears Garner is doing them herself. It is quite an athletic performance.Garner speaks a number of languages in each episode (without subtitles). I don't speak these languages, but her accent was very convincing.They did a number of technical things that made me angry they were so inept. Sydney moves back and forth between two groups of warring spy agencies without taking any precautions that she is being followed or that her phone is tapped. She dismantles a nuke and holds up a grey sphere which she proclaimed is the plutonium core. Plutonium is radioactive, and as soon as it is formed into a sphere it explodes. Oddly road flares go off in a bank vault.She is a double agent, but at times does some bit of daring for both simultaneously. The plot often does not make sense, which amusingly one of the characters points out.
