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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 27202
Released: September 2, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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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:
Great 
2009-09-22 - I love Alias so I was really excited to get the first season. The condition is great, exactly how it was described.
Addicting
2009-06-18 - I enjoyed the entire series of Alias, but the first season definitely was the best.
You really got to see all sides of Sydney's life and the dichotomy of her two existences really pull against each other creating an intense inward struggle. Once the series gets on a ways, her personal life and her work life kind of merge together and that see-saw balances out.
One of the great things about it is it just throws you in, no slow lead in. The moment you start the first episode, you're deep in it and hooked.
Jennifer Garner has such a girl next door look to her, that before I watched it, I couldn't imagine her in this role. But once I started watching it, I couldn't imagine anyone else in the role of Sydney.
Acting, writing, directing... all superb.
best show ever!
2009-05-26 - acting,writing and direction at its best. will always be my favorite show it always leaves you with a huge cliffhanger that u have to see what happened next
awesome!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!!
2009-05-10 - This show is recommended for any person who likes action packed shows with great twists!! Character development and story plots are aboslutely fantastic! the first season is the best by far, and definitely worth watching over and over and over again...
Absolutely brilliant show!!
2009-04-11 - This show is SO good, it's not like any other "agent/spy/CIA series" you've seen before, it's a completely different plot, dramatic, funny, sad, exiting and realistic at the same time, and the acting's amazing.
I remember watching the very first episode back when it first came out, we were on vacation and my sister and I watched it together, I had just turned 9. I specifically remember the scene when Sydney is in a basement and is asked by that man, "Who are you working for?" while he gets ready to pull her teeth out. Then she mumbles desperately, and when he loosens his grip on that terrible torture instrument, she says flippantly, "I just wanted to say ... Start with the teeth in the back - if you don't mind?" (Fantastic scene!)
Unfortunately, not long after, the holidays were over and I couldn't watch it anymore - I had to go to bed (remember I was 9 years old?), it was on at 11 PM or so.
And so I almost completely forgot about the series, even though that specific scene has been so clear in my head all the years from the broadcast of that pilot and to this very day.
But then I actually bought the first season this year, and I watched it, and it's just fantastic! In my opinion it's the best tv series ever, the plot is brilliant, it's very exciting, and the acting is absolutely outstanding! Especially Jennifer Garner, she fits and plays perfectly in that part, no one else could have done it half as well as her.
That was a long story, but I wanted to share my memories of that series from when I was a little boy, and how I feel about it now.
Really great show.
I love it!
