Alas...
I enjoy Alias, it's my kind of show. On one level it's eye candy; fast, loud, pretty. On the other, the plot is so convoluted and its play with identity so complex, that it provides the kind of food for thought that made The X Files and Buffy such long-term successes.
Jennifer Garner plays a woman who is a student whilst also an agent in the CIA who pretends (for the first 2 seasons at least) to be an agent within a shadowy organisation called SD6, which itself pretends to be a branch of the CIA. Whilst she has to lie to her friends a lot, one of her friends has recently been killed and replaced by a convincing double.
It's one of those shows where you can't trust anyone, and if you miss a couple of episodes you don't know what the hell is going on. Also one of those shows you think will inevitably end too soon, because it's too hard to get into if you've never watched it before - so it's difficult to build an audience.
Channel 5 are making it harder too. First they moved it to Saturday night, when it's obviously a midweek 9 o clock-ish kind of show, and now they've relegated it to the the middle of Sunday night. Odd, because recent epsidoes have featured guest appearances from the likes of Christian Slater and Ethan Hawke.
She does a lot of her own stunts too, which is kind of dumb and admirable at the same time.
Jennifer Garner plays a woman who is a student whilst also an agent in the CIA who pretends (for the first 2 seasons at least) to be an agent within a shadowy organisation called SD6, which itself pretends to be a branch of the CIA. Whilst she has to lie to her friends a lot, one of her friends has recently been killed and replaced by a convincing double.
It's one of those shows where you can't trust anyone, and if you miss a couple of episodes you don't know what the hell is going on. Also one of those shows you think will inevitably end too soon, because it's too hard to get into if you've never watched it before - so it's difficult to build an audience.
Channel 5 are making it harder too. First they moved it to Saturday night, when it's obviously a midweek 9 o clock-ish kind of show, and now they've relegated it to the the middle of Sunday night. Odd, because recent epsidoes have featured guest appearances from the likes of Christian Slater and Ethan Hawke.
She does a lot of her own stunts too, which is kind of dumb and admirable at the same time.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
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