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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 25026
Released: December 2, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The action gets even hotter in ALIAS' sensational second season. Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. It's "like watching a 2,000-piece puzzle assembled before your eyes," says Entertainment Weekly. Experience all 22 scintillating episodes of season two with exclusive bonus features that take you inside the world of ALIAS. Your favorite characters are back, joined by special guest stars, as Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax. "Think Bond with feelings, Dostoyevsky with smart bombs," says GQ Magazine. This comprehensive six-disc collection will have you hooked from episode one's incredible start to the season's stunning final minute.
Description of Alias - The Complete Second Season:
It was a family affair in the second season of J.J. Abrams's wonderfully inventive Alias, as super secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super secret agents--her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former KGB agent presumed dead but alive and more dangerous than ever. After shooting poor Syd, Irina later shows up at the doorstep of the CIA, offering to turn herself in and work for the good guys. But can she be trusted? Alias set up so much duplicity in its second season that it might have been hard to keep track of who was doing what to whom, but thanks to a great ensemble cast, fast-paced writing and direction, and some cannily cast guest stars, Alias rode a stunning emotional roller-coaster and never broke its momentum, even when halfway through the season, the show reinvented itself. With episode 13, "Phase One" (which aired after the Super Bowl to the show's biggest audience), Syd's original nemesis (and employer) SD-6 changes forever, yet the kick-butt agent still finds herself going up against the malevolent leader Sloane (Ron Rifkin) and his ever-changing set of henchmen. Action fans got plenty of fighting, while romantic Alias watchers swooned as Syd and the dashing Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally consummated their unrequited love.
The critically acclaimed show owed a debt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its mix of action, romance, mystery, and moral quandaries, but in this season Alias truly came into its own--with a climax that came as a total shocker and prepped the show for an emotionally volatile third season. Guest stars included the phenomenal Amy Irving as Sloane's wife, Faye Dunaway as a nefarious bigwig, Christian Slater as a kidnapped scientist, and Ethan Hawke as a fellow CIA agent (or rather, two of them), but it was the dysfunctional nuclear family of Syd, Irina, and father Jack (Victor Garber) that gave Alias its heart and its strength, whether the three perfectly cast actors (all Emmy nominated) were just bickering or undertaking deadly hand-to-hand combat. And you thought your family had problems! --Mark Englehart
Alias - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
Intriguing adventure 
2009-12-10 - This season had me wondering whodunit??? I loved how even though we should never assume anything in the world of ALIAS....we were still surprised. Kudos to season 2.
Perfect
2009-11-27 - Received Nice in time and dvd's where in perfect shape, just some were and tear om the box
Probably the best season
2009-07-25 - The 2nd season of Alias is probably the best season overall (the 1st is good as well, and has to be seen before the 2nd).
Two major reasons:
The script is particularly well thought, dealing simultaneously with several complex situations, while always taking care of bringing the relevant and necessary details to the audience at the right time. Situations are constructed step by step, logically. At times, you may think "Why does this happen? Isn't that too easy" but a second later a character says something to help the audience understand why that happens this way, logically.
The main characters, J.Garner and R.Rifkin in particular, play impressively. The right word, level of emotion, expression on the face etc... and because of the many surprises and various situations in the script, this is arguably an achievement.
Highly recommended - Addiction ahead...
I LOVE ALIAS
2009-06-24 - This season is so good, just like the first. Definitely a must for anyone who watched season 1, but I'm sure I didn't have to tell you that!
I Heart Alias
2009-04-08 - The dvd season came brand new, as advertised via Amazon. Buying dvd series through Amazon is so much better than paying extra $$ at Best Buy!
