Spy Review

Alias is an incredibly well written TV show created by J.J. Abrams, and has won many awards too. It is a top spy drama full of action and gritty plot lines that aired from 2001 to 2006. What stands out from this spy drama is that the lead is played by Jennifer Garner, who’s martial arts skills are something to be reckoned with! The spy gadgets in Alias makes James Bond look like a school boy!

Sydney Bristow is a young, athletic, attractive college graduate recruited as a secret agent for a top secret branch of the CIA, known as SD-6. After she confesses what she does to her boyfriend, her boss at SD-6, Arvin Sloane, has him killed. Through a fit of grief and anger, she discovers that SD-6 is actually a rogue international agency, and she becomes a double agent for the real CIA to help bring down SD-6 as well as Arvin Sloane.

Sydney works with her father, Jack Bristow, who’s another double agent for the CIA to bring down the whole of SD-6 and the Alliance of 12 with it. The whole 5 series follows Sydney as she brings down terrorists, the Alliance, the relentless Arvin Sloane, as well as the troubles she faces with her love life, her mother and the discovery of a sister.

The very beautiful Jennifer Garner plays Sydney Bristow, a very tough spy, but yet also very human. Her father played by Victor Garber is a highly intelligent and experience agent with an incredible talent for game-play, espionage and deception.

You’ll also recognise CIA agent Eric Weiss (Greg Grunberg) as the mind-reading police officer from new and very popular Heroes TV show. And then there’s Marshall Flinkman, played by Kevin Weisman. A top electronics and computer expert with painfully amusing social skills.

If you’ve never seen Alias, you really are missing out! So here’s some more spy entertainment for the weekend with the Alias DVD box sets. The DVD box sets are available from Amazon, with season 1 to season 5 individually, or a box set of seasons 1 to 4 (but not season 5 oddly).