Irina Derevko was both the best thing and the worst thing to happen to Alias . So much of season two hinged on her moral complexity that ...

It came as a surprise during this re-watch that Will wasn't a huge factor in season two. I remembered things a little differently, th...

Despite death being all over this show, grief has been an emotion rarely explored up till now, particularly when its external and volatil...

A lot has been written about the restructuring of the Alias itself post- Phase One , but what's most interesting is seeing how the c...

Alias continues to be in a league of its own when it comes to building layer upon layer throughout its tight ensemble cast. It's nev...

After a couple of weeks of meandering around, Alias kicks back into high gear with A Dark Turn , a richly-drawn episode all about the co...

One of the unexpected side effects of Phase One has been Sloane's reinvention as something of a James Bond villain, somebody so driv...

After last week's false start, this is Alias pushing forward with its new identity. A Free Agent instantly re-positions the ensembl...

Double Agent is an episode built entirely around Ethan Hawke. As a result, it feels strangely detached from what we know of Alias as a ...

We've come to expect certain things from television. A series' basic premise will remain intact for several seasons. An endgame c...

This was all about crossing into unknown territory, and characters taking that next leap into the unknown. It's ridden with bullets a...

If The Net taught me anything, and I think we all learned a lot from The Net , its that really-slow downloads don't make for great, ...

It's easy to rag on Marshall Flinkman. He has a very specific schtick that's used in practically every episode and rarely develop...

It makes sense that Jack would start to come around to Irina at the same time as we are. Man, it's hard to see Lena Olin as evil. She...

It goes without saying that Passage exploits the Bristow family dynamic for all its worth. This is crazily entertaining television, the ...

When Sydney first became a double-agent, she was only truly motivated by revenge. Joining the real CIA, she wanted to fight back against ...

One of the things that really struck me this week was how the writers managed to capitalize on the idea that so much of what we do could ...

So much of this season has been about Sydney's unconscious desire to be an innocent again -- the gradual softening of all those walls...

Jack Bristow has always been driven by impulse, very much a man moving at the beat of his own drum and orchestrating events in his own pr...

Doesn't everybody long to have perfect parents? Maybe because we so often don't, despite it being the one thing that we're su...