For a lot of its runtime, All the Time in the World is strangely tragic when it comes to Sydney, driving home the fact that much of her ...

One of the foundations of any creative writing class is "show, don't tell", anything you can think of being so much more ef...

These recent reviews have probably flip-flopped more than I would have liked. But it's very much a response to a season that seems to...

I talked a little bit last review about how boring it is to watch people chase after things when neither they nor us at home really under...

I don't know if I'm just looking back on the narrative structure of Alias ' early years through rose-tinted glasses, but ther...

Something happens to Jennifer Garner's face when she's reunited with Will this week. The two of them are recovering on a plane ri...

There's a moment in Maternal Instinct where Sydney reminds her mother of what she told her all those years ago: "Truth takes ti...

S.O.S. appears to be an example of the show having to come up with less eventful episodes in light of Jennifer Garner's pregnancy, s...

It's seemingly traditional for shows with butt-kicking female leads to feature their protagonists pining for a quieter life come the ...

It speaks to Sydney's upright morality as a character that it took Alias five long years for them to do the "one night stand wi...

Even with an influx of new characters, a show can only be sustained by its story, and whether or not it has anything particularly fresh o...

Something Alias did to make the Rachel character less troubling in this season's first five episodes was allowing her to be kind of ...

Season five is so far being driven more by characters than it is by action, meaning an episode like Out of the Box is rendered nowhere n...

The wigs are terrible this year. That dead cat on Sydney's head when she first met Renée, the RuPaul 'do for this week's Mont...

Everything new is old again. The Shed brought to mind the old adage that just because you acknowledge that history is repeating itself d...

Jennifer Garner's real-life pregnancy is the kind of thing that really ought to derail Alias . I mean, it's a show built on the p...

There's something inorganic about this season premiere. That's not necessarily a terrible thing, but on a show that has only ever...