I love this show. That being said, it has some flaws. You can tell when it went downhill is when J.J. Abrams stopped working on it regularly. Season 1 is great, Season 2 is great, Season 3 was OK, Season 4 not so great, and I'm going to pretend Season 5 didn't happen. I'd have to agree with some of other reviewers on here, it seems like they ended up with a bunch of different writers that lost direction or understanding of what the show was about and where it was supposed to be going. It started out as a spy show with a hint of sci-fi, and ended up the other way around which was just weird. It seems like the only person who really understood the whole Rambaldi thing was JJ. I think that the actors did a good job with what they were given. Watch Season 1-3 if you want to check it out. Its on Netflix as of 8/16.

The whole show feels like a B-series all the way.The plot: Firstly, the backstory is just silly. Sydney is working for a spy organization that is an enemy of USA inside USA. They have a office, research lab and many spies and other personal working from a office building in plain sight. USA government knows about this and allow it to operate. This is just insane, that would never happened. They would be violently shut down the moment they knew about it. But instead they send in undercover agents.The actions in the episodes: It is so simple and unrealistic. They just walk into secret buildings, guards just disappear into thin air, and they have access to all kind of high profile events like government officials would, and they act like they was CIA. All is so unrealistic that it is a slap in the face of any thinking person alive. We don't see any use of intelligence and creative thinking, its just blunt action packed into a really bad setting.Shallow and uninteresting characters: As the rest of the series the characters feel empty and shallow. One thing I like to look for in TV-series/movies, is the atmosphere and tension between characters, the development of the relationships, and the depth of characters that allow you as a watcher to connect with the characters. But in this TV show this part feel non existent, the characters is too simple and shallow to build any tensions, atmosphere or connection.How the episodes progress: This TV show jump very quickly from scene to scene and take large jumps between the scenes. Usually Sydney usually visit 2-3 locations worldwide in each episode and its all just fast action and little story. There is little time left for charterer building or celebration of victories, its just continues action.What is good?: Pretty girl that do martial arts.Summary: The whole show feel very simple and shallow, like it was written in very short time without much thought. The continues action and little focus on character development, relationship building and creating an interesting story makes the show feel empty, simple and boring.

For some time now me and my husband have been watching a lot of TV series, so we've enjoyed '24', 'House of Cards' (the original and the new, American version), 'The Borgias', 'Damages'. Then someone recommended 'Alias' to us and gosh, what an utter disappointment that was. There isn't a single thing about that series that would make it worthwhile, unless it is the absolutely first series you have ever watched in your life; the story is flat and unbelievable, the acting is so god-awful that it's almost to the point of being abusive to the viewer, the dialogues feel stiff and unnatural, the fact that the secret 'CIA agent' always goes out in the field dressed in a way that would make her anything but inconspicuous is plainly ridiculous, as is the fact that people who get involved in fights in this film seem to be all made of titanium or something, as you can hit them all over their heads and faces with any heavy object you want and it won't leave a slightest mark on them.At first we decided to give it a chance and watched 3 or 4 episodes, but then we came to a conclusion that there are limits to how much you can let someone offend your intelligence. It's so predictable and simplistic it's boring and the only reason I could imagine someone would want to watch it is the pretty handsome bloke from The Hangover, who is also the only one doing a slightly better job acting-wise, maybe because he isn't really involved in the main plot, so his romance/drama role lets him stay safely away from the pathetically badly written main body.My advice is - if you have a spare hour in the evening and you want to spend it watching something you'd probably be better off going for 'Dawson's Creek', or anything else for that matter.

This mildly entertaining Spy-Fi show had me going at first. I enjoyed the fast-paced story lines, the talented cast, the ruthless baddies, the martial arts. And Jennifer Garner is just so nice and likable that it's hard not to enjoy something she's in.But I soon became frustrated by the convoluted, who-really-cares story arcs, (particularly the obsession with Rambaldi, which seems lazy and makes little or no sense), the incredible incompetence of both good and bad guys, (how can anyone miss so many stationary targets with automatic weapons?), as well as the increasingly poor decision-making skills of these so-called intelligence officers. Seriously, these guys make Todd Margaret look like Winston Churchill. I mean, honestly! Sydney can't make it through a single mission without tripping some alarm, being "made," and ending up in a kick-boxing-for-god-and-country fight to the death? Really? Would the real CIA use such a person repeatedly after so many screw-ups? And how is it that that the bad guys never recognize her and Dixon as soon as they walk into some swanky resort or KGB-infiltrated, bass-pounding nightclub? She always looks very distinctively the same, regardless of her hair color, and they aren't exactly the blend-into-the-background couple.Now I'm a Sci-Fi fan (I like it better than spy stuff, actually), and can put up with a lot of junk science and incredible plot twists. After all, I was a fan of "The X-Files", even though some of the "science" in that show is stranger than fiction, and Mulder loses his gun in almost every episode. But most of the "science" in "Alias" is just so silly. Or perhaps it's the unquestioning, blasé way it is presented that makes it so unbelievable. As if you can simply say: "Oh, I can change your DNA to make you look like another person"; or "Some guy from 1500 invented a nuclear weapon," and people just go: "Oh. Weird. How do we stop it?" instead of "WTF??" Although I must admit that Marshall's incoherent descriptions of his "Q"-like inventions make me smile.I'm a latecomer to Alias, and am watching it almost 10 years later, and have to admit I missed all the contemporaneous hype. So maybe I would have thought Alias were a better show if I had been swept along by the initial furor. But I doubt it.I'm in season 3 now. Maybe once I finish the series I'll revisit the review. I hope it gets better. But for now, I gotta say I'm not a huge fan.