{"id":346485,"date":"2021-09-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alias-its-the-20th-anniversary-and-were-celebrating\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:00:00","slug":"alias-its-the-20th-anniversary-and-were-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alias-its-the-20th-anniversary-and-were-celebrating\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alias: It’s the 20th Anniversary, and We’re Celebrating!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Alias: It’s the 20th Anniversary, and We’re Celebrating!<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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On September 30, 2001, ABC\u2019s spy drama Alias premiered. The show focused mainly on Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) as she worked as a double agent to take down ST6 with her father Jack and her handler Michael Vaughn.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 20 years since we last saw our favorite spy family or Sydney on a mission. We couldn\u2019t let the 20th-anniversary go by without paying tribute to this iconic show.<\/p>\n

TV Fanatic staff writers Laura Nowak and Mary Littlejohn got together to discuss their favorite Alias relationships, the memorable costumes and missions, and which actors they\u2019ve followed to other projects.<\/p>\n

\n \"Alias<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

What was your impression of Alias when it first aired in 2001?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I was 20, and it was really cool. It was cool seeing this young woman with these competent athletic skills and still be a very complex person, navigating all the regular young woman stuff, but also being super badass. It was very satisfying.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: It was the first spy show I ever saw. It intrigued me, especially where a female was the lead. She was so cool and badass.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> She was really likable, too. She\u2019s just such a charming actor. She feels like a genuine person, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s cool that she\u2019s also a super spy and amazing at everything.<\/p>\n

How did you think it differed from the other shows airing at that time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary<\/strong>: I think it\u2019s interesting because Buffy came just before that. I think it had the same app<\/a>eal but was a bit more female-oriented. Many shows that were on TV at the time that dealt with women of that age were more about the relationships and regular struggles of young women navigating through life.<\/p>\n

So taking that and also making her a super spy was just a neat little twist. Even with how crazy Alias was, in the first season, it felt more grounded in reality compared to something supernatural, like Buffy.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I think I think it was different as well. It was special. It was a family drama with Jack.<\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: Totally, and then all the stuff with the mom and the sister coming in. It was absolutely a family drama.<\/p>\n

\n \"Irina<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura:<\/strong> In totally different ways than most family dramas. It wasn\u2019t a traditional family drama, but it was in many ways. It was a spy thriller, but in other ways, it was an angsty family drama.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> It had a lot going for it. I think that probably gave it its appeal. I would watch it with my mom. We both enjoyed it because it had that side to it. It\u2019s always nice when a show isn\u2019t just one thing because then it doesn\u2019t have the same staying power.<\/p>\n

Laure<\/strong>: It\u2019s so many. I mean, it was a thriller, action, family, and romance.<\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: Absolutely. The \u201cwill they or won\u2019t they?\u201d They always had that in the early 2000s, late 90s.<\/p>\n

What were some of your favorite relationships from the show<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary<\/strong>: I mean, Jack and Sydney were always the most interesting to me. It was super dysfunctional. But you always knew that they loved each other, and that was the basis for everything. The actors also seem to have such a good relationship outside of the show. You can see that, and that warmth was always lovely.<\/p>\n

Even though he recruited her to this organization, they loved each other, and that never stopped for the entire series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>They had my heart from the beginning. There was just something about them. You know he loved his daughter even when he had put a hit out on her first fianc\u00e9. There was just something about them.<\/p>\n

You wanted to see them come back together and work together. And that was the series \u2014 how their relationship evolved through the good and the bad.<\/p>\n

\n \"Father<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary: <\/strong>They had great chemistry, which is a word that\u2019s more used in romantic relationships. It felt like a real father-daughter relationship.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> They are one of my favorite father-daughter relationships.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I can\u2019t think of any others off the top of my head that stuck with me as they did.<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>I did like Irina with them. I mean, I didn\u2019t, per se, like Irina is a character. I thought she was the evilest of the three, but she added a fun dynamic to the spy family.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary: <\/strong>I like the way Sydney cares about people, and we can take her relationship with any of the other characters. I like her relationship with Dixon, her partner. There\u2019s a mutual respect that Sydney just had for everyone she worked with \u2014 except the double and trip<\/a>le agent thing.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I did like most of her relationships, so I liked her friendship with Dixon and with Will.<\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: And Francie. That whole doppelganger thing with Francie bothered me for various reasons, but also because Sydney and Francie had such a great relationship.<\/p>\n

They were best friends, and we didn\u2019t get to say goodbye to Francie properly, even though the actress stayed like it was a weird way to change that.<\/p>\n

\n \"The<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura:<\/strong> Yeah, then Vaughn. I loved Vaughn. Mary: Yes. That whole the beginning of season three was a gut punch for sure. That was a long wait. I remember the wait between season 2 and season 3.<\/p>\n

He was with Lauren. Yeah, it was like, \u201chow could you?\u201d And now, how are we going to get out of this? Of course, Lauren has to be evil because that\u2019s the only way out of it.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all right. They made it. They made it by the end.<\/p>\n

Laura: They were a couple that was meant to be.<\/p>\n

\n \"Vaughn<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Of course, Alias is known for its missions and its costumes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary: That was a huge part of the appeal. One reason I started watching as there were so many cool costumes, and it was really neat seeing her do something different every episode \u2014 sometimes multiple times per episode.<\/p>\n

What were some of your favorites?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I had so much fun going down this rabbit hole! Definitely the disco ball flapper outfit she wore in Vegas. It\u2019s really awesome.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney's<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

It was in Season 1 Episode 14 where they went to Vegas, and she\u2019s like wearing this thing on her head, and she just looks like a disco ball.<\/p>\n

Then there is the one where she went on the mission with Will, where he\u2019s a rock star (which is funny because of him later doing A Star Is Born). They dressed him like a cowboy, and she was wearing this amazing magenta faux fur coat.<\/p>\n

I remember seeing that coat, and I wanted that coat. After finding a coat like that, I incorporated faux fur into my wardrobe more. She really was like a fashion icon in a weird way back then, wasn\u2019t she? I remember I definitely emulated a lot of her looks or tried to with my basic wardrobe back then.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura: <\/strong>I remember her Cabaret outfit in Season One. That one was fun. I think she kept the blue wig for the first season finale when she was meeting Irina for the first time.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Was that the light blue wig that she wore in the club with the people when she was running the PVC and stuff? It\u2019s intense. But also again, I definitely tried to replicate that outfit.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> Then I like the one in season two when she, Irina, and Jack were all on the same mission together when they were the tourists. They tried to make her look younger.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Yeah, like a teenager. It\u2019s all in the mannerisms, right? Jennifer Garner is a talented actress. But Sydney also is a fantastic actress! If she wasn\u2019t a super spy, she could probably have been an actor as well, in another life.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: It was all in the mannerisms. One of my favorite missions, even though I don\u2019t think they wore costumes, was \u201cLiberty Village.\u201d It was so fun to watch them pretend to be a married couple.<\/p>\n

\n \"Liberty<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary: <\/strong>That was a really cool concept. Just having that little American village and how Russians see Americans and how you have to be a certain way.<\/p>\n

My favorite mission was when they went to get the Horizon. Irina, Jack, and Sydney went to Vancouver and Vancouver\u2019s my hometown. I was like, \u201cYay! They\u2019re in Vancouver!\u201d Then Sydney gave birth in Vancouver! It was really cool that she gave birth in my hometown. That was awesome.<\/p>\n

I loved seeing them go to so many cities and seeing these cities. It was almost like tourism ads in every episode just seeing all the cool places in the world, and it really made me curious about traveling and seeing all these other cities and their appeal. It broadened my horizons.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I never thought about it like that, but that is true. They went up everywhere.<\/p>\n

\n \"Spy<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I really like that aspect of it. They must have filmed in most of these places. I mean, they probably couldn\u2019t go to places like North Korea, but I wonder how many places they actually went to, or if they just got like the aerial shot and then filmed somewhere else.<\/p>\n

They must\u2019ve. It was a huge network show. It must have been cool to film.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: They do have a lot of costumes.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Didn\u2019t it win some Emmys for costumes and wigs? I\u2019m sure it did.<\/p>\n

We have not talked about Sloane yet.<\/strong>
\n<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/img><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: He\u2019s an interesting guy. I liked the actor that played him \u2014 Ron Rifkin, but I knew him and Victor Garber from musical theater stuff. So seeing them be super spies on a show like Alias was fun. Whenever you see someone in the first thing, you see them in, that\u2019s always what they\u2019ll be to you, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>That\u2019s probably how I feel about Victor Garber and Jennifer Garner on Alias. Although I watched Ron Rifkin in Brothers and Sisters. He\u2019s Uncle Sal, one of the main characters. He went there right after Alias. ABC must have liked him. They kept him on.<\/p>\n

Mary: <\/strong>Sloane is such an interesting and complex villain. It went really weird. Like I said at the beginning, for how fantastical the spy missions and stuff were, they still based it in reality \u2014 but then you got the weird doppelganger thing, which was basically Face\/Off.<\/p>\n

Then, there is the Rambaldi stuff where he wanted to be immortal, and that\u2019s out of Harry Potter. It\u2019s very fantastical \u2014 like that\u2019s not what you\u2019re expecting from a spy show. Do you know what I mean? It was weird. It was kind of unexpected, and his ending was brutal.<\/p>\n

I guess he was pretty evil. I think this goes back to knowing him from Broadway and stuff, but he seems like such a nice, humble, sweet guy. Seeing him be evil, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, he\u2019s going to end up being nice, right?”<\/p>\n

\n \"Rescuing<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura<\/strong>: They did for a bit with his daughter.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Yeah, they totally did, and that was the thing.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I was really hoping that Nadia could have reformed him. It was nice to see that softer side of him, though. That death thing between him and Jack was epic, but it was sad because I really didn\u2019t want Jack to die.<\/p>\n

Mary: <\/strong>No, of course not, but honestly, on a spy show in the last season, someone\u2019s got to.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> So many people died in those last scenes\u2013Irina, Jack, Sloane.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Yeah, you\u2019ve got to kill your darlings, as they say. It made sense that it wasn\u2019t a happy ending, but it didn\u2019t feel shoehorned in.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney's<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura:<\/strong> No, it didn\u2019t. It felt right. It was just sad. At least Sydney named her son after her dad. That was a nice fitting end. That was lucky. Yeah. It was very sweet.<\/p>\n

Have you watched it much since?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> No. I re-watched some clips on YouTube<\/a>. After reading about it again, I kind of want to re-watch it. Now that I have more free time, I\u2019m tempted, and I feel like it\u2019s something I could probably convince my husband to get into as well because it\u2019s super-spies being awesome!<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I have the DVDs, but I haven\u2019t watched them in a while.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I feel like I had the DVDs at one point, like, borrowed from someone. I think I did re-watch it at some point, but it wouldn\u2019t have been in the last ten years, I don\u2019t think.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: Yeah, I bought this DVD set around five or six years ago, so I know I\u2019ve watched it then, but it\u2019s still been a while.<\/p>\n

\n \"Alias<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Whose stuff have you followed since they left the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s funny because Victor Garber is my favorite. I really love Victor Garber and have since before Alias. I feel like he was part of the reason I started watching Alias. Victor Garber is in it, and he\u2019s Canadian.<\/p>\n

He had just been in Titanic and the Cinderella musical with Brandy and Whitney Houston. Alias was really cool, but after that, he got super busy.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t keep up with everything, and I haven\u2019t even watched the Legends of Tomorrow. I just have so much trouble keeping up with all the superhero stuff. Is that the one he\u2019s on, or is it the Flash?<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>He did both. He started on the Flash and then moved to Legends, and now he\u2019s gone. I stopped watching Legends when he was gone.<\/p>\n

\n \"Victor<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary:<\/strong> I don\u2019t remember if Legally Blonde was before or after this, but if it\u2019s a movie and Victor Garber is in it, I\u2019m going to go; I will see that.<\/p>\n

Laura: I really like him, too. He was my favorite. I saw Titanic. I didn\u2019t really know who he was, but when I re-watched Titanic. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhoa that is him! A very young him!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary: I know. It\u2019s funny because he\u2019s had gray hair for a long time. So he doesn\u2019t really feel like he\u2019s aged that much in the last 20 – 25 years, but then he\u2019s always been that kind of dad type.<\/p>\n

Laura: I hear he\u2019s got a new show coming out in Canada, but I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to watch it \u2014 Family Law.<\/p>\n

Mary: <\/strong>He was in another show as well that I watched for a little while.<\/p>\n

Laura: I know he was in a show called Deception on NBC. I watched that.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> He was in Argo. Apparently, he was on an episode of Schitt\u2019s Creek. I still have been meaning to watch that.<\/p>\n

\n \"Victor<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura: <\/strong>I\u2019ve seen him in Motive, I\u2019ve seen him in Deception. He was in a Hulu Christmas movie last year, which I could not stand the movie, but I watched it for him \u2014 The Happiest Season.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Isn\u2019t that awful that when you enjoy an actor and then they\u2019re in something just bad? Like, this happened to me a lot.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> Yeah, I couldn\u2019t stand the main characters. They had no chemistry. But Victor played the dad of one character, and you know what? He\u2019s decent as a dad. But yeah, I saw it because yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I was just so excited. He was in something since he left the Legends.<\/p>\n

Mary: He\u2019s done a lot of Broadway performances. And so I always enjoy seeing him, like, pop-up on the Tony Awards. He has a beautiful singing voice. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re into musical theater at all.<\/p>\n

\n \"Singing<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I have not seen him in anything.<\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: I haven\u2019t seen him in anything, but I have my soundtracks and he was in the original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd, the musical.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I have seen a lot of Jennifer Garner\u2019s and Bradley Cooper’s stuff, too.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Yeah, of course. Bradley Cooper is now a Megastar. I would argue that he\u2019s the biggest star to come off of this show, even more so than Jennifer Garner. He\u2019s directing and writing. He\u2019s had multiple Oscar nominations; he is doing great for himself.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: I see a lot of his stuff. I\u2019ve seen a lot of her movies. I know that her Netflix movie just got a sequel yesterday. That was really cute.<\/p>\n

\n \"Jennifer<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary<\/strong>: She\u2019s just so charming and likable, and she also seems like a great person because some celebrities are not. She just seems like one of the nicer celebrities in the world, like she could be your best friend.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> Absolutely. She\u2019s so relatable and down-to-earth. That\u2019s why I like a lot of her stuff.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> She picks good stuff, too. I\u2019ve found I\u2019ve really enjoyed her movies \u2014 like Juno is a great movie, and I love 13 Going on 30, even though I\u2019m not a huge rom-com person. The Invention of Lying is awesome. And Catch Me. If You Can. She did some great films.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thrilled that they gave her Alias to blow her up and show off what she can do because not everyone could have done Alias.<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>It is such a different genre.<\/p>\n

\n \"New<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

Mary<\/strong>: And like so many genres, and she had to play so many characters in the same series, like, you know, characters within a character, but then also like being a triple agent and also being really athletic. And I know she had a stunt double, but she\u2019s in there doing it and doing it.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s awesome. I hope she continues to be great and happy and work and create.<\/p>\n

Do you think we\u2019ll ever see a revival or reboot of Alias in the world of reboots we\u2019ve been getting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary<\/strong>: I think so. I don\u2019t know what it would look like. I mean, they\u2019ve been talking about it.<\/p>\n

Laura:<\/strong> I don\u2019t really want one unless it\u2019s a revival or maybe something with their kids. And she and Vaughn could make some appearances.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> Yeah, exactly. They kind of hinted at the end of the series that their daughter was gifted in the same ways that Sydney was, so it would make total sense to just create another spy show with Sydney\u2019s daughter, going through the same, not the same thing. But like you said, they could have Jennifer Garner come in now and then with Michael Vartan.<\/p>\n

\n \"The<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

I think it\u2019s definitely a possibility. They have been talking about it.<\/p>\n

Laura: <\/strong>So yeah, it would be interesting. What else did we need to cover? I think we covered just about everything unless you have anything else.<\/p>\n

Mary:<\/strong> The other thing I was going to mention was they had some awesome celebrity guest stars.<\/p>\n

I thought it was really cool that it had Sir Roger Moore in one episode because he was one of the original James Bond’s and it felt like this was basically like a young woman James Bond because usually in James Bond movies, girls are that arm candy or the love interest.<\/p>\n

\n \"Sydney's<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

But this was a spy show, with the young woman being the awesome spy instead. So it\u2019s like it inverted the James Bond trope. So I thought it was a nice reference to have a James Bond actor in there.<\/p>\n

Laura<\/strong>: That\u2019s a good way of putting it.<\/p>\n

Mary: <\/strong>There were just so many random great guest stars like Isabella Rossellini, Quentin Tarantino, Gina Torres.<\/p>\n

What are some of your thoughts about Alias 10 years later? How are you celebrating the anniversary? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

Laura Nowak<\/b> is a staff writer for TV Fanatic. Follow her on Twitter.\n<\/div>\n

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