Sydney Bristow (on the right) is a promising college student, with a stable romantic relationship (with a guy she adores) and great friends. Graduation is taking a tad longer, since she is also working at the finance department of a bank. She travels a lot around the globe and seems to like her job. The busy life suits her, with the long dead mother and the absent businessman father; Jack Bristow (Victor Garber).

What Sydney isn’t authorized to tell is that what’s disguised as a bank is SD-6, a secret branch of the CIA and Sydney is an agent there. She fights well, speaks many languages and knows her gadgets. The ”bank trips” are deadly assignments. But when her fiancé proposes, she feels obliged to tell him. She does so. He gets into shock and leaves a drunken message on her machine. The agency guys pick it up and take care of the guy. She comes home from a mission to find him dead. Why would CIA kill an innocent civillian,and an intern doctor at that? They wouldn’t. So it also comes after her. Who rescues her is the absent businessman father-who explains to her about the truth about SD-6 -that it is not part of the CIA, it only disguises itself as that and majority of the employees don’t know this either- oh and that he is a senior agent there. He offeres Sydney an escape route but as shocked as she is, she is hungry for revenge; she opts for a different route. She undertakes a mission, gets tortured yet manages to obtain a piece her boss-Arvin Sloan (Ron Rifkin) wants and brings it to the agency. She further proves her loyalty by undergoing tests/interrogations and is cleared. It is only convenient for Arvin to have his fav. agent back on the team. The next thing, she goes to the real CIA and becomes a double agent. There she meets her “handler”- the guy who is supposed to tell her about the counter-missions. Oh,that’s right! Now she is only pretending to be loyal to SD-6, while being true to the actual CIA. Now each mission has a counter one, making the timing harder, the missions more dangerous. She also has to pull this off under the unsuspecting nose of her SD-6 partner, who doesn’t know what SD-6 is really up to.

It is full of action. Car chases, gadgets ( lipstick with cameras and all that nice stuff), disguises, plane crashes…you name it. It’ s there. A regular episode will take you to about 3 different countries and back to her resident location: Los Angeles.

         Of course as smart, gorgeous and dangerous as she is, she is only human and taking all of these very badly:

      * The man whom she almost regarded as a father/her SD-6 boss Arvin Sloan turned out to be a psychopath-and killed her fiancé. But she has to see him everyday and smile to his face; so that she can bring the whole organization down when the time comes.

    

     * Not to mention the fact that she has to live with the fact that she worked for that organization for 7 years, thinking that she was helping the government whereas she has been betraying it.

           * What is worse than an absent father? Probably a father who lied to you all your life, and seems to be revealing the truth at his own convenience: Oh yes, he has more secrets. He is not just SD-6, he is also CIA-a double agent. He also seems to be deprived of emotion. The guy has a poker face that makes him a great agent but the social bonding skills that make House seem like a teddy bear.

        

 * Oh, she has great friends who know nothing about this secret life so she can only discuss trivial stuff with them and hang out. Journalist Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper) and Francie ( Merrin Dungey). They love her and for the lives of them can not figure out why Sydney doesn’t leave her boring bank job.

 

      

* So the only person she can talk about everything to is her CIA handler Michael Vaugn (played by Michael Vartan). But since Michael is CIA, they can not be seen outside together. If they are outside, they have to look like strangers.

 Because if her cover is blown, and he is discovered to be of CIA, they are both screwed (as in to be murdered by SD-6)… It really doesn’t help matters that they keep getting closer and become increasingly attracted to each other…

 Their relationship will no doubt never lack adrenaline, since it is full of friendship, honesty, sexual chemistry, bottled up feelings and not to mention the fact that they both face date everyday…

    

  These two have great online chemistry and share great emotional and romantic moments.

You cross your fingers that they can get together and that Syd will not have a breakdown…

 I am not even gonna say how many episodes/seasons we’ve had to wait for this!

The show has a brilliant 1st season and an incredible season finale.

The second season does not dissapoint. Moreover it features guest stars that I love; such as Ethan Hawke and Christian Slater.

The whole season is amazing and the finale is arguably even more shocking than the first season’s. In third season, the show is still good- you hardly get upset with the script but with some actions of some characters (major actions of major characters, to be exact) but after season 3…The show is no longer addictive. It doesn’t have the vibe. The characters and their actions aren’t interesting anymore. The story twists are sort of desperate and you say ”Come on,what the…?” a lot. Don’t even get me started on the 5th. Of course they are worth watching in the sense that you want to know what eventually will happen to characters you have come to care about but still, if you quit with the 3rd, I am not gonna blame you.

My guess is J.J found a new show idea that he liked (Lost) and fell out of love with Alias. Writers wrote with the philosophy of “anything goes” and since this is not a soap opera, they failed.

However I watch the first 3 (and especially 1st &2nd seasons) over and over. My life is never going to get that interesting and my emotional life will never see that kind of turmoil. It is fun to be in world of lies, deceit, passion, fights and chases and espionage…Not to mention love.

Enjoy…