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DVD Alias - The Complete Third Season
The third season of Alias found super spy Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) waking up in Hong Kong with a monster hangover and two years in the future with nary a memory. What's worse, her world has been turned upside-down with the evil Sloane (Ron Rifkin) now a world-famous humanitarian and philanthropist, and, even worse, her true love Vaughn (Michael Vartan) married to a seemingly great gal. Nice way to go back to work, eh? After coming up with one heck of a cliffhanger in season 2, Alias proceeded a bit aimlessly through these 22 episodes, and as a result, the parts were truly greater than the whole. With Lena Olin no longer around as Syd's duplicitous mother, and the addition of admirable yet bland Melissa George as Vaughn's wife Lauren, Garner found herself for the first time without a compelling female foil to play off of. By dividing its focus equally between the quest for the enigmatic Rambaldi device, Syd and Vaughn's now-contentious relationship, and the uncovering of Syd's missing years, Alias lost a little of its power without a larger story arc. The loss of regular cast members Merrin Dungey (Francie/Alison) and Bradley Cooper (Will)--both of whom do make great guest appearances--also divest the show of the personal life that kept Sydney human and approachable. Still, Garner is stellar as always, the plot twists come fast and furious, and secret identities are revealed. This season does have a great panorama of guest actors including Ricky Gervais, Justin Theroux, Djimon Hounsou, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Vivica A. Fox, and Isabella Rossellini as Syd's long-lost aunt. --Mark Englehart
I have absolutely no idea why so many fans of Alias hate this season. I almost didn't buy this because of all the negativity but I'm glad I did. There is definitely a different feel to it compared to the first two seasons by it is not bad at all. There's no Will or Francie but they were kind of boring anyway. It still has all the elements that makes Alias great. It's got the cliffhangers and major plot twists and all that fun stuff. I highly recommend this season. Don't let some bad reviews discourage you from checking this out.
SEASON 2 CLIFFHANGER MAKES SEASON 3 TOUGH
The second season of Alias ended with the show's best fight scene to date and one of television's most jaw dropping cliffhangers of all time. Unfortunately, the shocking finale caused the writers to spend much of the next season cleaning up fallout from that surprise, and many of the loyal viewers didn't think it was on the same level with the first two seasons. A lot of people didn't accept Melissa George as Michael Vaughn's new wife, didn't like the idea of Arvin Sloane being a benevelont and benign humanitarian and spent the entire season pining away for the return of Lena Olin as Sydney's mother. While they were complaining they missed some compelling relationships, more shocking surprises and the addition of Sydney's sister and a second Direvko sybling. The acting is as first class as the previous years, the dialogue is extremely sharp and the plot twists are still crisp enough to keep up the espionage show's vaunted reputation. The Alias DVDs are never loaded with too many extras, but the animated episode ["Tribunal"] is exceptional. If there is a true dissapointment to season 3, it is the confusing final scene that serves as the cliff hanger. Compared to the fantastic climaxes to each of the other four seasons, this one is a vague snoozer that fails to raise any real excitement for the next episode. None the less, this season is still not as bad as a lot of devoted viewers make it sound and is a must own if you're at all a fan of the show or Jennifer Garner.
Not as bad as people say.
Well, now that everyone on the planet has pointed out Season 3's "bad" quirks, let's talk about some of things that make this season, not as HORRIBLE as everyone says. A devoted fan since day one, I promise you, I won't ramble on...
As tragic as it was for Sydney to be missing for two years, it brought about some very interesting and tense issues for her and Vaughn. That first episode...or was it the second, where she rightedly told him off for moving on and getting married - "I would have waited", she proclaims, not only showcased Garner's great acting abilities but brought closure to the situation (as much as we could expect) for such a traumatic experience in that she not only found out she had been missing, but she again, lost the love of her life. Another interesting pawn in the game was the level at which Laura's character brought tention to the whole story. She not only was the new wife reflecting jealousy from Sydney's point of view, but the bad guy as well. The psychological aspect and mind games that went on between the three characters was fantastic. Everyone hated her but she was so good at deceiving, you couldn't help but give her props. The whole "we know but they don't" tactic keeps things fresh. For this I give Alias Season 3 Five stars. I don't think these seasons should be compared with the last, but looked at as a work by itself.
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... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jennifer Garner DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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True to form, at the beginning of its fourth season J.J. Abrams' Alias proceeded to reinvent itself yet again--and the results looked quite a bit like the first season, but with a decided twist. Super agent Sydney Bristow (Emmy nominee Jennifer Garner) found herself once more working for a covert secret-ops group that was "off the books" and headed up by Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin) as she was partnered with... Hey, wait, wasn't Sloane a bad guy before? Well, yes, he was, but having been "rehabilitated" from his evil ways, he's now Sydney's new boss--nevermind the fact that he's trampled all over her life in more ways than one--and head of the CIA's new super-secret division, APO (for Authorized Personnel Only), which also includes all of Sydney's old friends, as well as her... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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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... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jennifer Garner DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Along with Desperate Housewives, Lost was one of the two breakout shows in the fall of 2004. Mixing suspense and action with a sci-fi twist, it began with a thrilling pilot episode in which a jetliner traveling from Australia to Los Angeles crashes, leaving 48 survivors on an unidentified island with no sign of civilization or hope of imminent rescue. That may sound like Gilligan's Island meets Survivor, but Lost kept viewers tuning in every Wednesday night--and spending the rest of the week speculating on Web sites--with some irresistible hooks (not to mention the beautiful women). First, there's a huge ensemble cast of no fewer than 14 regular characters, and each episode fills in some of the back story on one of them. There's a doctor; an Iraqi... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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There's not one cougar to be found in 24's dynamic third season, and that's good news for everyone. After Jack Bauer's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) survived hokey hazards in season 2, she's now a full-time staffer at CTU, the L.A.-based intelligence beehive that's abuzz once again--three years after the events of "Day Two"--when a vengeful terrorist threatens to release a lethal virus that could wipe out much of the country's population. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) attempts to broker a deal for the virus involving drug kingpin Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida), whose operation Jack successfully infiltrated at high personal cost: to maintain his cover, he got hooked on heroin. That potentially deadly triangle--drug lords, addiction, and bioterrorism on a massive scale--sets the... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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