*ALIAS SPOILERS*
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a College Student and a CIA Agent (or so she thinks). Her boyfriend Danny Hecht (Edward Atterton) proposes to her and she (very, VERY stupidly) blabbers to him about her spy job (which she had sworn to keep SECRET). Her boss Arvin Sloan (Ron Rifkin) somehow finds out and has Danny killed.
Sydney, having revealed herself a threat to SD-6 (what Sydney has been told is a branch of the CIA), is next on the chopping block, but is saved by her father Jack (Victor Garber) who reveals himself as a SD-6 agent (and come on, how -stupid- is Sydney not to understand that 'selling airplane parts' is an obvious cover, just as much if not more than her working at 'Crèdit Dauphin'? Next time, choose a better cover, JJ) who's also a double agent for CIA, since SD-6 is actually a part of the Alliance of 12, a terrorist organization.
So, she becomes a double agent herself (Agent 00Drama Queen - License To Overdramatize Everything) and her handler is young CIA Agent Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) whose father, also a CIA Agent, was killed on duty by ruthless Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), who also ends up being Sydney's mother... and all of this while maintaining her college-girl facade for her friends - the useless Francie Calfo (Merrin Dungey) and the reporter Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper) who has decided to find out the truth about Danny's murder...
'Alias' is a high-octane and kind of pretentious divertimento, which can engage your interest as much as a Steven Seagal action movie can, if you ignore some enormous clichés, some of the weakest female characters ever seen - especially Rachel, who may have been named after the actress to help her remember how to act - it didn't work - and was just dreadful, Sydney, whose character sometimes is a grown woman, but for the most part is an insufferable teenage girl, Francie the human black hole, who really served as practically nothing until she was killed and replaced by a clone and about the writing for her - when she was good, she was bad, but when she became bad, she was awful, but Irina excluded, some really contrived plot twists (Season 3 especially) and a lesson in how NOT to develop an on-screen romance (the Sydney-Vaughn relationship was twisted and turned so much it looked like a spiral at one point).
Basically, it's fun fluff, and can be exciting, but if you're looking for gripping spy drama, go somewhere else.
Alias: 5/10.
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a College Student and a CIA Agent (or so she thinks). Her boyfriend Danny Hecht (Edward Atterton) proposes to her and she (very, VERY stupidly) blabbers to him about her spy job (which she had sworn to keep SECRET). Her boss Arvin Sloan (Ron Rifkin) somehow finds out and has Danny killed.
Sydney, having revealed herself a threat to SD-6 (what Sydney has been told is a branch of the CIA), is next on the chopping block, but is saved by her father Jack (Victor Garber) who reveals himself as a SD-6 agent (and come on, how -stupid- is Sydney not to understand that 'selling airplane parts' is an obvious cover, just as much if not more than her working at 'Crèdit Dauphin'? Next time, choose a better cover, JJ) who's also a double agent for CIA, since SD-6 is actually a part of the Alliance of 12, a terrorist organization.
So, she becomes a double agent herself (Agent 00Drama Queen - License To Overdramatize Everything) and her handler is young CIA Agent Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) whose father, also a CIA Agent, was killed on duty by ruthless Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), who also ends up being Sydney's mother... and all of this while maintaining her college-girl facade for her friends - the useless Francie Calfo (Merrin Dungey) and the reporter Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper) who has decided to find out the truth about Danny's murder...
'Alias' is a high-octane and kind of pretentious divertimento, which can engage your interest as much as a Steven Seagal action movie can, if you ignore some enormous clichés, some of the weakest female characters ever seen - especially Rachel, who may have been named after the actress to help her remember how to act - it didn't work - and was just dreadful, Sydney, whose character sometimes is a grown woman, but for the most part is an insufferable teenage girl, Francie the human black hole, who really served as practically nothing until she was killed and replaced by a clone and about the writing for her - when she was good, she was bad, but when she became bad, she was awful, but Irina excluded, some really contrived plot twists (Season 3 especially) and a lesson in how NOT to develop an on-screen romance (the Sydney-Vaughn relationship was twisted and turned so much it looked like a spiral at one point).
Basically, it's fun fluff, and can be exciting, but if you're looking for gripping spy drama, go somewhere else.
Alias: 5/10.
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