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Alias - The Complete First Season Customer Reviews (4 - 6 of 49 Reviews)

The hype fits.
Yup. The fanboys don't lie. This is great television.
While not as throttling as "24", the breathless pacing is a delight.
Garner and Garber, as daughter-and-son, develop a "feels real" relationship across the year, and Rifkin (as Sloane) truly creates a character for the ages. Evil? Not so evil? The tightrope he dances reaches a crescendo by the final episdoe. It needs to be recognized by SOME professional organization one of these days.
All the secondary characters are note-perfect. Romantic tensions are well played-out.
This is not to say there aren't plot lapses. Or even plot holes. Shoot, there are whole plot canyons, but you're having WAY too much fun to even care!
The season actually gets better as it progresses...and the last episodes are masterworks. The last scene, I feel, is the best cliffhanger since 'Who Shot JR."
It's actually better. Easily.
I withheld seeing the show on TV so I could get the whole "mythology" at once on DVD. I must say it was worth the wait, and I can't wait for round 2!

The ABC Saver
... But this is now my favorite show so far. Up there with News Radio, Friends and Simpsons.

This is a very well written, fast paced, and well cast show. Though it may not seem original from seeing a commercial, after you see one episode your hooked. The music while Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is on her missions is addictive, and makes you jump out of your seat cheering her on. The plot twists (Ex: When Dixon blows up the building which the US Police (or whatever) where in.).

Another thing I see that's different from other shows are the accuracy in the technology. You can actually see things like they have being invented/or already exist... and they way the explain them is done very well.

I've been very excited that my favorite TV shows are now being put onto DVD (well, some). Six Feet Under is now coming onto DVD. And now I'm excited to hear that Alias may come to DVD as well! So, please put it on DVD (however, make each DVD volume atleast 6 episodes... don't have us buy 20 $16.99 DVD's for one season!)

An Awesome New Drama
With a remarkable cast including Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan, et al., tremendous critical acclaim, incredible ratings, and a super-hott heroine, anyone can see why "Alias" has taken the country by storm. With each episode, Sydney Bristow (a.k.a. Jennifer Garner) takes you to the edge of your seat and in the first season finale she leaves you floored.

The show itself is centered on a graduate student (Sydney Bristow) who works for a top-secret branch of the CIA called SD-6. So she thinks...at least for the first seven years of working there. When work began, she signed many non-disclosure agreements to keep her job a secret. However, Sydney felt that she was lying to her fiancé, so she told him what she did for a living. As a result for breaking the one rule she was to never break, SD-6's head director (Arvin Sloane) had him killed. Sydney's life was flipped upside-down. To add even more drama to her life, she finds out that her father Jack Bristow (whom she thought exported airplane parts) is also an operative of SD-6. He revealed to her that SD-6 was not a part of the CIA, but in fact an enemy of the United States. Sydney then turned to the only place she thought could help her bring down SD-6. Now she is a double agent for the real CIA and her handler is a man named Michael Vaughn. In each episode she is sent to different countries to complete missions for SD-6 as well as a counter mission for the CIA. In the meantime, she balances her graduate school classes and her two best friends (Will and Francie) who both believe that she works for a bank (Credit Dauphine).

In addition to the intriguing storyline, when Sydney goes on these missions, she wears the best disguises imaginable. From red-hot hair to the housekeeper's outfit she does disguises like no one else. Another important aspect of "Alias" is that Sydney kicks .... Sydney rises to the occasion and gets out of trouble with some kickboxing moves time and time again. Anyone can see that "Alias" isn't your normal drama series, in fact it is a show that will probably be around for a long time. There is only one thing left for you to do, and that is to buy this DVD if and when it is released. However, be forewarned...you will become addicted.

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