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Buy Alias: The Complete Second Season
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788849121
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby,
DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788849123
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 900 minutes
Sales Rank: 7252
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 2001
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Season 2 Plot Synopsis
The second season begins with the introduction of Irina Derevko,
Sydney's mother, who soon becomes a vital part of the series. Midway
through the second season, the series underwent a "reboot" of sorts
with Sydney successfully destroying SD-6 (after gathering valuable
intelligence for tactical strikes from an airborne SD-6 server) and
becoming a regular agent for the CIA, still in pursuit of former
SD-6 leader Arvin Sloane, his associate Julian Sark, and the
Rambaldi artifacts. Sydney's friends at SD-6, Marcus Dixon and
Marshall Flinkman, are finally made aware of her dual identity and
recruited into the CIA. Sydney also begins a romantic relationship
with Vaughn, now that their relationship will not endanger them.
In the second half of the season, it is revealed that Francie Calfo,
Sydney's best friend, was murdered and replaced by Allison Doren, a
woman who was transfigured to look exactly like her. Allison was
then in a position to spy on Sydney and Will. The end of the season
saw Will possibly murdered and Sydney killing Allison and then
falling unconscious. Sydney awakens two years later in Hong Kong,
unable to remember the two years that have passed. She soon learns
that her friends and the CIA believed her to be dead, and Vaughn
found a new love and is now married.
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Editorial Review:
Description:
The action gets even hotter in ALIAS' sensational second season.
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life
when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the
CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new
roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. It's "like
watching a 2,000-piece puzzle assembled before your eyes," says
Entertainment Weekly. Experience all 22 scintillating episodes of
season two with exclusive bonus features that take you inside the
world of ALIAS. Your favorite characters are back, joined by special
guest stars, as Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action
builds to a spectacular climax. "Think Bond with feelings,
Dostoyevsky with smart bombs," says GQ Magazine. This comprehensive
six-disc collection will have you hooked from episode one's
incredible start to the season's stunning final minute.
Amazon.com:
It was a family affair in the second season of J.J. Abrams's
wonderfully inventive Alias, as super secret agent Sydney Bristow
(Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super
secret agents--her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former
KGB agent presumed dead but alive and more dangerous than ever.
After shooting poor Syd, Irina later shows up at the doorstep of the
CIA, offering to turn herself in and work for the good guys. But can
she be trusted? Alias set up so much duplicity in its second season
that it might have been hard to keep track of who was doing what to
whom, but thanks to a great ensemble cast, fast-paced writing and
direction, and some cannily cast guest stars, Alias rode a stunning
emotional roller-coaster and never broke its momentum, even when
halfway through the season, the show reinvented itself. With episode
13, "Phase One" (which aired after the Super Bowl to the show's
biggest audience), Syd's original nemesis (and employer) SD-6
changes forever, yet the kick-butt agent still finds herself going
up against the malevolent leader Sloane (Ron Rifkin) and his
ever-changing set of henchmen. Action fans got plenty of fighting,
while romantic Alias watchers swooned as Syd and the dashing Vaughn
(Michael Vartan) finally consummated their unrequited love.
The critically acclaimed show owed a debt to Buffy the Vampire
Slayer for its mix of action, romance, mystery, and moral
quandaries, but in this season Alias truly came into its own--with a
climax that came as a total shocker and prepped the show for an
emotionally volatile third season. Guest stars included the
phenomenal Amy Irving as Sloane's wife, Faye Dunaway as a nefarious
bigwig, Christian Slater as a kidnapped scientist, and Ethan Hawke
as a fellow CIA agent (or rather, two of them), but it was the
dysfunctional nuclear family of Syd, Irina, and father Jack (Victor
Garber) that gave Alias its heart and its strength, whether the
three perfectly cast actors (all Emmy nominated) were just bickering
or undertaking deadly hand-to-hand combat. And you thought your
family had problems! --Mark Englehart
