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USA TODAY
May 2, 2003
What to watch this weekend
by Robert Bianco
Boy, disappear for two years and your whole world can change, as Sydney discovers in Sunday's astonishing season premiere of ABC's Alias (9 p.m. ET/PT).
Back in the CIA fold, our Sydney has to adjust to a new boss, a murky new enemy and a new mission. As for her personal life, her best friend, Will, is missing, her mom's on the run, her dad's in jail, and her one-true-love Vaughn went and married someone else while she was AWOL.
Fool. No one with any sense could do without Sydney, or star Jennifer Garner, who has a speech near the end that should be attached to her Emmy reel. Garner's Sydney could be the perfect modern heroine: a sweet, smart, best-bud kind of girl who is in total control of her sexuality, turning on the heat whenever it suits her purpose. There aren't many secret agents who could stop a car full of thugs simply by standing in the street looking hot.
As fans would expect, Sunday's premiere juggles more secrets than any show since X-Files. But Alias always reveals its secrets in time, perhaps because ceaselessly inventive creator J.J. Abrams knows he can always come up with more. He has made Alias TV's best game. Come play.
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