 | |
List Price: $59.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 4392
Released: September 2, 2003 |
| Our Price: $21.99 |
| Used Price: $13.90 |
|
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
|
Editorial Review:
Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jennifer Garner (Best Actress In A Television Series, 2002) is Sydney Bristow. Syd's not exactly your average grad student. Her life might appear normal, but she's hiding a secret life working as a spy for the CIA. Sydney's world is turned upside down when she learns she may work for the very enemy she thought she was fighting. Now she's entangled in a covert lifestyle where she is forced to question the allegiances of everyone, including those closest to her. Entertainment Weekly says ALIAS is "a spy-fi roller coaster of killer gadgets, double roundkicks, triple crosses, poignant confessionals, cliff-hangers, sliced-off fingers, conspiracies, outrageous outfits, exotic locales, flirtations, mythologies -- and that's just before the first commercial break." Now see the 22 mesmerizing episodes that launched it all in this 6-disc set. You'll also experience never-before-seen extras that give you special access inside the world of ALIAS. See the show everyone has been talking about that has redefined series television. This edge-of-your-seat collection with its heart-pounding action of unpredictable plot twists will have you gasping for air and begging for Season 2!
Description of Alias - The Complete First Season:
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd!
Confusing? This is all just in the first episode of Alias, the brainchild of Felicity creator J.J. Abrams that plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart, and always suspenseful, Alias' center was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first season, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart
Alias - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Stunning Heroine, Fabulous Script, Interesting Plots and Victor Garber 
2008-07-28 - Most television series acknowledge the importance of the first season, a precursor to the however many running years a show has. ALIAS has not let its viewers down. JJ Abrams, most famous for his work on FELECITY, comes to us with a breathtaking reinvention of ther spy series.
Syndey Bristow, a strong-willed graduate student has two worlds: one of a regular student who spends her evenings home with her friends and fiancee, Danny. Another of an international spy for SD-6, a black-ops division of the CIA. But, when she decides to bring pieces of the worlds together, by telling her fiancee of her double life, SD-6 has him killed. In a brilliant pilot, Sydney's work life is revealed to be a sham, she is not working for a black-ops CIA division, but a syndicate of an international terrorist organization, the Alliance.
The first season follows Sydney and her pursuit to end the success and livelihood of the group that killed her fiancee and took seven years of her life, mainly SD-6 director, Arvin Sloane. With her father, another agent at SD-6 (Victor Garber), she becomes a double agent for the CIA, working with her handler, Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan), to bring down the men that destroyed her life. Filled with interesting plots, ALIAS provides an incrediblely easy way to spend an hour entertained. With the constant mystery of how much of Sydney's life revolves around those she does not know, the character of Miss Bristow continues to fascinate viewers.
An Excellent Spy-Action Series Much Better Than I First Thought
2008-07-12 - A friend of mine who's a big fan of the show first introduced me to this series at first I thought they would make it to idiotic with Eye candy women like Pamela Anderson's former show V.I.P.(Don't ask me why I watched a few episodes to this day even I can't give a reason.)but I was happily amazed at how suspenseful,dramatic,and lots of action there was in the series. You have Sydney Bristow(Jennifer Garner)who's recruited into what she thinks is an shadow department of the CIA but is in reality a independent group of former special agents with their own worldwide agendas. When Sydney finds out the truth she begins working with the real CIA to destroy this rogue agency. I forgot to write about it but the other reason she now hates this rogue faction is that they had a rule that no outsiders were to know about them or what her true job was but as
Sydney who is about to get married decides to tell her fiance the truth about herself the shadow agency makes sure he can't tell anyone by killing him. I have all five seasons now and while some of the episodes aren't the greatest for the most part are still pretty good. So if you like the spy action shows I say try this series out you might just be surprised at how good it really is...
Great Season
2008-04-22 - Great season to watch. First couple episodes you could tell they didn't have as much funding, but it gets better and better.
The best season of Alias by far, you won't be able to turn it off!
2008-02-12 - Alias was a great show through the entire season, but the first season is by far the best. If you never watch any other Alias episodes, watch this season. You won't be able to turn off your DVD player.
nice boxed edition
2007-12-31 - Great for catching up on missed episodes. I paid 49.00 for it when it was first released.
