Issue #655, May 24, 2002

Babies and bygones rule the season's end, with female leads driving things home

by Ken Tucker

Series creator Matt Reeves has done a deft job of showing "Felicity" to the exit door; the other creator, J.J. Abrams, has concentrated on his newbie, "Alias," whose recent finale was a deep doozy. It brought back old favorites, like the Asian torturer from the show's pilot; it entwined every major character together in subplots with the common themes of trust and betrayal; and it inflicted exquisite pain on the CIA character played by Joey Slotnick (sorry, Joey payback time for "The Single Guy!"). "Alias"' glossiness (Internet- geek posters can thank Abrams for one final Jennifer Garner getup: the blue-wig/leather-bra/dog-collar number) gave way to a great final moment of serious wit: revealing "The Man" of mystery to be Sydney's season-ending utterance --"Mom." Woo-hoo!

From the same issue:

10 Ways to Fix TV

No. 4: Saturday Night's Alright for Repeats
ABC: Think about it: Say, for instance, that you want to get on the "Alias" bandwagon, but you're always too busy on Sunday nights getting for work on Monday, right? So ABC could air the previous week's edition of prime time's best knotty spy story on Saturday. (I even suspect, given the knottiness of it all all, some fans would start watching both Saturday and Sunday episodes, to double their pleasure and make sure they're clear on the plot.)

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