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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 22
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2001

Format:

Series

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Created By:

J.J. Abrams

Actors:

Bradley Cooper, Carl Lumbly, Jennifer Garner, Kevin Weisman, Merrin Dungey, Michael Vartan, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

ABC

This is very inter­est­ing series, so much dif­fer­ent than any other crime and cops pro­ce­du­rals we see on any chan­nel in any given year. Spies, secret agents, dou­ble agents with many ele­ments of fic­tion and fan­tasy, mys­tery and adven­tures. Alias is made by famous J.J. Abrams (Felicty, Lost, Fringe) for ABC tele­vi­sion. Alias is story about net­work of secret orga­ni­za­tions, recruit­ing agents under the false cover, pos­ing as the CIA.

Char­ac­ters

As you usu­ally have, hero of the series is young and pretty much inde­struc­tible Syd­ney Bris­tow (played by Jen­nifer Gar­ner), work­ing for SD-​6, a secret orga­ni­za­tion she believes is a part of CIA. And, maybe J.J. Abrams went to far in cre­at­ing her char­ac­ter because she is almost a Won­der Woman (except for fly­ing); she looks gorgeus, is very smart and intel­li­gent, weapons and mar­tial arts spe­cial­ist, speaks all (and I mean all) lan­guages. And she is a dou­ble agent. Her father, Jack, also a dou­ble agent is played by Vic­tor Ger­ber and he is seri­ous, unpre­dictable and short on words, agent very hard to read, but always there to help his daugh­ter. Direc­tor of SD-​6 branch, and their boss is Arvin Sloane, played by Ron Rifkin who is the source of the major story line in Alias, about arti­facts and knowl­edge of one Milo Rambaldi.

Story

Alias Sea­son 1

While main story is made around a new case each week, there are sev­eral story lines going through many episodes, or even the whole series. Main and longest story line is revolv­ing around Milo Ram­baldi, an inven­tor and mys­tic, renais­sance genius, very sim­i­lar to Leonardo De Vinci. Milo’s last name is homage to Carlo Ram­baldi, who worked on spe­cial effects on many movies includ­ing Oscar win­ning E.T. And the whole Milo story is the rea­son for this series to be labeled as mys­tery and sci-​fi.

Pro­duc­tion

First sea­son pre­miered in 2001, and was very suc­cess­ful, gen­er­at­ing big rat­ings. Also, series won many pres­ti­gious awards includ­ing Golden Globe and Sat­urn Awards. And, as usual for a J.J. Abrams pro­duc­tion, music is com­posed by great Michael Giacchino.

Con­clu­sion

I really liked this sea­son, and I was intrigued by the com­plex story that involved proph­e­sies and ancient secrets, mixed with the futur­is­tic tech­nol­ogy. I rec­om­mend that you watch Alias is you missed it until now. It’s real fun.