Alias - The Complete Second Season
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Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788849121
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0788849123
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Running Time: 900
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2001-09-30
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Buy
Comment: Got my Season set of DVDs new in box at a fairly fast speed. I would definately buy from this seller again. Thanks.
Customer Rating:
Summary: superb collection
Comment: this was my first season collection. i have watched and loved first season and i predicted that second one should be fantastic. as i predicted, that was awesome. each episode took me to the adventure of two sided agent sydney and her complicated family :D
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Love it; Hate it; I've just got to have more Alias
Comment: Last Year...on a very special "Alias":
Sydney Bristow, a young woman working on her PHd while working part-time at Credit Dauphine, leads a double life as a secret agent for SD-6 - purportedly a deep-cover branch of the CIA, but really a faction of "The Alliance", a global-network of arch-criminals who make hundreds of millions in arms sales, extortion and murder. Warned by her father when SD-6 murders her fiancé and then marks her for death, Sydney "defects" to the CIA, and becomes their double-agent. Now Sydney conducts compound missions - operations for SD-6 which are really counter-missions for the CIA intended to bring SD-6 down. Her only ally in SD-6 is her father, Jack Bristow, one of the few who knows the truth about the organization and its chief - the evil Arvin Sloane. Sydney must navigate the tight channels between SD-6 and its rivals (other evil organizations, security operatives of the alliance obsessed with uncovering moles, etc.) and not infrequently other functionaries of the US Government. In season 1, Syd faced several complications: the workings of a renaissance-era inventor named Rambaldi whose writings and inventions border on the prophetic and the apocalyptic, the shifting (and often selfish) loyalties of her homicidal father, the meddling of her reporter-friend Will Tippen and the truth about her mother, Laura Bristow (AKA KGB agent Irina Derevko, AKA "the Man"). (MadTV spoofed this show with a rapid fire skit that parodied the many tangled webs of Sydney Bristow's life - the biggest joke is how much of the material was accurate.)
If that sounds like a lot, it is, especially since many of the episodes resolve around the same basic idea: a mission that involves Sydney sneaking into a highly-secured location in disguise, break into a secure vault or hack a computer using exotic technology, grab the goods, kick-box her way out. Rinse and repeat. Nevertheless, the show manages to work its plot twists in how these missions connect - a mission goes bad, and somebody's captured, is he worth the risk?; a mission goes too well, and SD-6 gets the goods before Sydney can get them to the CIA; and just how good is this intel anyway? Brisk action keeps each episode going - also keeping us from wondering how SD-6's agents (presumably about as competent as Sydney, multilingual, combat-trained, techno-savvy and just so generally brilliant in so many other areas) never learn of SD-6's true nature while out in the field.
Tonight, on ALIAS!!
Everybody's loyalties are strained to the breaking point. It begins with mom - Laura Bristow (referred almost all the time as "Derevko") revealing herself as "The Man", the shadowy head of an organization with a murderous efficiency rivaling that of SD-6. Surrendering herself to the CIA ("The Enemy Walks In") she proves in every way the perfect match for Jack Bristow. Can she be trusted? Sydney is torn, but her father is not - making us wonder how far he'll go to discredit her. And what will happen when the Bristows take a family trip (hunting for WMD's in Kashmir)? Meanwhile, Will Tippen's investigation into last season's murder of Sydney's fiancé causes him to be sucked into the world of international espionage. In order to ensure his promotion into the Alliance, the evil Arvin Sloane must execute his wife, Emily. (Dying of cancer, Emily blabs what she knows about SD-6 to Syd, and then inconveniently goes into remission.) When Sloane receives hints that Emily may be alive, he slowly goes off his hinges - or is it something else? Season 2 gives more attention & action to characters given the side-order treatment last year, including Dixon, Marshall and even Asst. Director Kendall (Terry O'Quinn - YES!!!).
"Alias" is a lot of fun even though it's also dated - having less in common with shows like "Lost", "Heroes" and the new BSG than the shows replaced by them (any of the reincarnations of "Star Trek"). "Alias" isn't about ordinary people in extraordinary situations; nor will we find Syd in a situation where her only hope is a tenacity she's not supposed to have. And most graying of all, we never doubt that Syd's targets have it coming - they're all bad-guys, and the only bad consequences of Sydney's actions are further missions. For all the murkiness about SD-6 or any pretension about how we're too modern to simplify the world into goodguys and badguys, once Syd's stilettos go into action, we need not worry that she's going after a totally innocent dude, or that the measures (or wardrobe) taken aren't overly extreme. "Alias" is about as obsolete as a show can be, but it gives the spy-fi genre a great treatment, with larger-than-life (and meaner) characters, enigmatic loyalties and some beguiling questions.
STUFF THAT ALMOST KEPT US FROM TUNING IN:
No show is perfect, though "Alias" has some quirks which nearly abuse the privilege. Needless celebrity guests (since they're stars, the show can't do that much to them or with them), too much important dialog spoken in quick and hushed tones, too much info spoken straight out ("subtext" anyone?), too much gratuitous footage of Jennifer Garner's bod or of Syd in suggestive clothing (Yes, we know she's mega-hot, but that doesn't mean we should be treated like we're a bunch of stalkers) and too many artificially-emotional scenes with extra-sappy music playing in the background (if you're wife is a bigger fan of "Grey's Anatomy" or "October Road" than you are, you know what I'm talking about).
That aside, "Alias" is still a fun ride that sends the spy-thriller genre out with a bang. Lena Olin is coolly sexy as the evil/motherly Derevko, while Victor Garber and Terry O'Quinn vie for the title of "CIA's meanest", while Ron Rifkind chews up the scenery as an archvillain in an age where such men are thought extinct. The show is like one of Sydney's disguises, a sheath of artifice over a compelling and inescapable reality.
Customer Rating:
Summary: nice boxed edition
Comment: I paid 49.00 when it was first released. Great to catch up on missed episodes. Too bad the show ended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: !!Amazing!!
Comment: I love Alias, in this season, every chapter is very interesting, and you always end up wanting to watch the next one, rather than wait one week to see the next one.
This is the only show I want to watch, the whole five seasons of it.
A must buy!!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Buy
Comment: Got my Season set of DVDs new in box at a fairly fast speed. I would definately buy from this seller again. Thanks.
Customer Rating:
Summary: superb collection
Comment: this was my first season collection. i have watched and loved first season and i predicted that second one should be fantastic. as i predicted, that was awesome. each episode took me to the adventure of two sided agent sydney and her complicated family :D
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love it; Hate it; I've just got to have more Alias
Comment: Last Year...on a very special "Alias":
Sydney Bristow, a young woman working on her PHd while working part-time at Credit Dauphine, leads a double life as a secret agent for SD-6 - purportedly a deep-cover branch of the CIA, but really a faction of "The Alliance", a global-network of arch-criminals who make hundreds of millions in arms sales, extortion and murder. Warned by her father when SD-6 murders her fiancé and then marks her for death, Sydney "defects" to the CIA, and becomes their double-agent. Now Sydney conducts compound missions - operations for SD-6 which are really counter-missions for the CIA intended to bring SD-6 down. Her only ally in SD-6 is her father, Jack Bristow, one of the few who knows the truth about the organization and its chief - the evil Arvin Sloane. Sydney must navigate the tight channels between SD-6 and its rivals (other evil organizations, security operatives of the alliance obsessed with uncovering moles, etc.) and not infrequently other functionaries of the US Government. In season 1, Syd faced several complications: the workings of a renaissance-era inventor named Rambaldi whose writings and inventions border on the prophetic and the apocalyptic, the shifting (and often selfish) loyalties of her homicidal father, the meddling of her reporter-friend Will Tippen and the truth about her mother, Laura Bristow (AKA KGB agent Irina Derevko, AKA "the Man"). (MadTV spoofed this show with a rapid fire skit that parodied the many tangled webs of Sydney Bristow's life - the biggest joke is how much of the material was accurate.)
If that sounds like a lot, it is, especially since many of the episodes resolve around the same basic idea: a mission that involves Sydney sneaking into a highly-secured location in disguise, break into a secure vault or hack a computer using exotic technology, grab the goods, kick-box her way out. Rinse and repeat. Nevertheless, the show manages to work its plot twists in how these missions connect - a mission goes bad, and somebody's captured, is he worth the risk?; a mission goes too well, and SD-6 gets the goods before Sydney can get them to the CIA; and just how good is this intel anyway? Brisk action keeps each episode going - also keeping us from wondering how SD-6's agents (presumably about as competent as Sydney, multilingual, combat-trained, techno-savvy and just so generally brilliant in so many other areas) never learn of SD-6's true nature while out in the field.
Tonight, on ALIAS!!
Everybody's loyalties are strained to the breaking point. It begins with mom - Laura Bristow (referred almost all the time as "Derevko") revealing herself as "The Man", the shadowy head of an organization with a murderous efficiency rivaling that of SD-6. Surrendering herself to the CIA ("The Enemy Walks In") she proves in every way the perfect match for Jack Bristow. Can she be trusted? Sydney is torn, but her father is not - making us wonder how far he'll go to discredit her. And what will happen when the Bristows take a family trip (hunting for WMD's in Kashmir)? Meanwhile, Will Tippen's investigation into last season's murder of Sydney's fiancé causes him to be sucked into the world of international espionage. In order to ensure his promotion into the Alliance, the evil Arvin Sloane must execute his wife, Emily. (Dying of cancer, Emily blabs what she knows about SD-6 to Syd, and then inconveniently goes into remission.) When Sloane receives hints that Emily may be alive, he slowly goes off his hinges - or is it something else? Season 2 gives more attention & action to characters given the side-order treatment last year, including Dixon, Marshall and even Asst. Director Kendall (Terry O'Quinn - YES!!!).
"Alias" is a lot of fun even though it's also dated - having less in common with shows like "Lost", "Heroes" and the new BSG than the shows replaced by them (any of the reincarnations of "Star Trek"). "Alias" isn't about ordinary people in extraordinary situations; nor will we find Syd in a situation where her only hope is a tenacity she's not supposed to have. And most graying of all, we never doubt that Syd's targets have it coming - they're all bad-guys, and the only bad consequences of Sydney's actions are further missions. For all the murkiness about SD-6 or any pretension about how we're too modern to simplify the world into goodguys and badguys, once Syd's stilettos go into action, we need not worry that she's going after a totally innocent dude, or that the measures (or wardrobe) taken aren't overly extreme. "Alias" is about as obsolete as a show can be, but it gives the spy-fi genre a great treatment, with larger-than-life (and meaner) characters, enigmatic loyalties and some beguiling questions.
STUFF THAT ALMOST KEPT US FROM TUNING IN:
No show is perfect, though "Alias" has some quirks which nearly abuse the privilege. Needless celebrity guests (since they're stars, the show can't do that much to them or with them), too much important dialog spoken in quick and hushed tones, too much info spoken straight out ("subtext" anyone?), too much gratuitous footage of Jennifer Garner's bod or of Syd in suggestive clothing (Yes, we know she's mega-hot, but that doesn't mean we should be treated like we're a bunch of stalkers) and too many artificially-emotional scenes with extra-sappy music playing in the background (if you're wife is a bigger fan of "Grey's Anatomy" or "October Road" than you are, you know what I'm talking about).
That aside, "Alias" is still a fun ride that sends the spy-thriller genre out with a bang. Lena Olin is coolly sexy as the evil/motherly Derevko, while Victor Garber and Terry O'Quinn vie for the title of "CIA's meanest", while Ron Rifkind chews up the scenery as an archvillain in an age where such men are thought extinct. The show is like one of Sydney's disguises, a sheath of artifice over a compelling and inescapable reality.
Customer Rating:
Summary: nice boxed edition
Comment: I paid 49.00 when it was first released. Great to catch up on missed episodes. Too bad the show ended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: !!Amazing!!
Comment: I love Alias, in this season, every chapter is very interesting, and you always end up wanting to watch the next one, rather than wait one week to see the next one.
This is the only show I want to watch, the whole five seasons of it.
A must buy!!
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.
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