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''Alias'' is a [[Cliché Storm]]/[[Troperiffic]] [[Spy Drama]] (2001-2006) by [[J.J. Abrams]] about Sydney Bristow ([[Jennifer Garner]]), an agent for SD-6, black-ops division of the CIA, who discovers that, whoops, it wasn't a black-ops division of the CIA so much as a faction of a powerful [[Western Terrorists|terrorist group]] called The Alliance; so she becomes a [[Reverse Mole|double agent]]. She then discovers her father, a supposed salesman, is also a double agent for the CIA. Sydney then has to divide her loyalties between a team of good men at SD-6 who simply don't know their boss is the devil, and a team of mostly good men and a few pricks at the real CIA.

 

 

Unusual for its willingness to embrace a fanciful [[Story Arc]] about a centuries-old prophecy. The first four seasons all featured a subtle, never explained [[Myth Arc]] about an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Italian inventor with a penchant for odd drawings and fanciful words]]. Somehow, this 15th century prophet is still relevant today. His designs have been implemented and his writings dissected. And apparently the global intelligence community has nothing better to do than go to war over every piece of technology he might have even glanced at.