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We take a look back at the 2001-2006 TV series Alias. It was the show that launched Jennifer Garner’s career and made her one of the coolest heroes of the era.
The mid-2000s were an excellent time for serialized action shows. There were 24, Lost, Chuck, Prison Break and loads more. But, perhaps the best of all of them – for a while anyway – was J.J. Abrams’ Alias, which starred Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a black ops agent for what she thinks is a unit of the CIA, SD-6. The truth is much more deadly, as Sydney discovers in the influential pilot episode that aired on September 30th, 2000. It paved the way for her to be cast as Elektra in the early Marvel movie
Daredevil (a role she reprises in Deadpool 3), and the show also offered an early part to a young Bradley Cooper, who played her friend Will Tippin. Victor Garber played Sydney’s father Jack and Michael Vartan played Sydney’s love interest Michael Vaughn. The show ran five seasons and was mostly acclaimed, but some felt it had jumped the shark as the series progressed. Many of the people involved were already stretched thin by this time, as J.J. Abrams was directing his first film, Mission Impossible III in 2006, the year the show ended. But, for a while anyway, it was a hip show, with guest stars like Quentin Tarantino, Christian Slater, David Cronenberg and even Roger Moore setting the show apart.How does
Alias hold up almost two decades after its last episode aired? Let’s dig into it in this week’s Gone But Not Forgotten, which is written, edited and produced by David Arroyo and narrated by Jesse Shade.Do you think
Alias holds up well? Comment below.
Entertainment - Media News Watch originally published at Entertainment - Media News Watch
