Alias: Complete Season 1 [2002]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Created by JJ Abrams, Alias plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super-sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd!

Confused? This is all just the first episode. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart and always suspenseful, Alias' centre was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first series, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart

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Special Features

• All 22 episodes in series 1 including pilot episode
  
• 6 discs in a book format
  
• 4 audio commentaries, including one by Jennifer Garner
  
• Alias pilot diary
  
• Inside shots
  
• 6 deleted scenes
  
• Gag reel
  
• 5 TV spots
  
• Video game preview
  
• Alias Series 2 sneak peek

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Synopsis
Jennifer Garner stars in this television series as Sydney Bristow, a 26 year-old graduate student working for a secret division of the CIA. The mission of this arm of the CIA is to combat SD-6, a secret terrorist organisation whose agents believe that they, in fact, work for a secret organisation of the CIA that combats terrorism. This first season of the series begins as Sydney begins work as a double agent for the CIA, who want to destroy the organisation and its leader, Arvin Sloane. Sent all over the world on various undercover missions, Sydney must sabotage SD-6's efforts while maintaining her cover so that she can help take down SD-6 from the inside. Quite possibly the most entertaining show to debut on television in the last decade, ALIAS is a fast-paced thrill ride buoyed by Ms. Garner's performance as well as her penchant for wearing some outrageously risque disguises on her missions.

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Customer reviews

review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-07-22 rating:
start of a brilliant fast paced series
as usual with television programmes the first series can usually be quite weak.
not here!!!
JJ Abrams was put on the map with this fantastic fast paced tv show,as was the fabulous Jenny Garner.
it is a great start to what has to be the perfect spy series...24 just drags while this is always at the top of its game.
from the amazing pilot to the shocking finale this season has it all with some astounding episodes and fantastic acting...this season is just great.
Truth be told-5/5
it begins-3/5
parity-4/5
broken heart-4/5
doppelganger-4/5
reckoning-4/5
colour-blind-4/5
time will tell-4/5
mea culpa-4/5
spirit-4/5
the confession-4/5
The Box(1)-5/5-guest starring Quentin Tarantino(yay).
The Box(2)-5/5
the coup-4/5
page 47-4/5
the prophecy-4/5
Q&A-3/5
masquerade-3/5
snowman-3/5
the solution-4/5
Rendezvous-5/5
almost thirty years-5*/5-everything is revealed in a spectacular finale!!!
purchase today!

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review by: date: 2007-12-15 rating:
Quite Addictive
This isn't going to be a long and detaled critique. Quite simply, once you've been through all your 24s and Sopranos (more than once), you need something to fill the void. I was a bit wary before buying Alias at first, never having heard of it on TV, but it turned out to be a really entertaining show and a worthy addition to the big two. The plots are outrageous, as are the stunts, but it certainly is action-packed. The skills and talents of the lead girl are so over-the-top you just have to suspend belief and go along with the ride. She's like Jack Bauer with feelings, an enormous wardrobe, an olympic physique and superhuman talents. We're now on Season 2, have 3 on order and will definitely buy the rest.

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review by: date: 2007-11-26 rating:
Very silly
Alias is okay. It's ludicrous pretty much throughout, and a good laugh can be had at the sheer awfulness of the plots and the allegedly "highly trained" agents who nevertheless never seem to complete a mission successfully. I bought season 1 on a whim, I won't be buying any more of it.

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review by: gpd1991 date: 2006-08-25 rating:
Great beginning for a great show
Season 1 is breath-taking.
Great start
Great action scenes
Great disguise
Great character development





review by: date: 2006-08-09 rating:
Well-made escapist action
This series is hugely enjoyable, with great action sequences and glamourous locations all over the world. Jennifer Garner looks fantastic in all her exotic costumes and the rest of the cast generally come across well.

Having said that, Alias does have its faults, which are more noticeable on DVD because you probably won't be watching the episodes a week apart. It's pretty formulaic and repetitive and the characters are mostly one-dimensional. Sydney Bristow is much less believable in her civilian life. She's just too nice to be a kick-ass secret agent and the idea that she keeps up her graduate studies inbetween her global missions is just laughable.

You need a big dollop of suspension of disbelief, but if you can manage that then Alias is exciting and fun. Maybe one to rent (as I did) rather than buy. There's not much going on beneath the glossy surface of this show.

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