ALIAS – Excellent Show!
Readers of this blog will know that we are huge fans of Lost and Fringe, both shows by JJ Abrams who also helmed Cloverfield and Mission Impossible III.
Well some of you may or may not know that he did another complicated and highly serialized drama series on ABC called “Alias”. Alias ran for five years between 2001 and 2006, and centered around Jennifer Garner as a CIA Agent.
per Wiki: The main theme of the series explores Sydney’s obligation to conceal her true career from her friends and family, even as she assumes multiple aliases to carry out her missions. These themes are most prevalent in the first two seasons of the show. A major plotline of the series was the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Leonardo da Vinci-like inventor and Nostradamus-like prophet from the Renaissance period. This plot and some technologies used in the series pushed Alias into the genre of science fiction.
Fans of Lost and Heroes will be glad to know several actors from those shows are in this including Lost’s Terry O’Quinn (John Locke) and Heroes’ David Anders (Adam Munroe/Takezo Kensei) and Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman). Grunberg also played the pilot of Oceanic 815 who got f*cked up by the smoke monster in the 1st episode of season 1.
Below is a fanmade trailer for the series. This show is HIGHLY recommended, and while it definitely drops of a bit in the middle seasons, it’s still way better than a lot of crap out there on TV.
