I thinkCrock-Pot would agreethat the greatest post-Super Bowl episode of television isAlias Phase One.
Phase One was supposed to be the episode that tookAlias reach to the next level.
Thanks in part to the start time, that never happened.
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Ratings hadnt been that low for a Super Bowl episode in 16 years.
But theres so much more to the story than the chain reaction it started.
It has no business coming off as smart as it does.
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(If only the Raiders had won the game that year!
If only ABC had started the show earlier!)
But the colors are all muted as if by the Los Angeles smog.
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He still believes he works for the good guys.
She takes a risk with Dixon and tells him the truth anyway.
The sky is sickeningly yellow.
No one is a more innocent victim of the spy game than Dixon, the shows unwavering moral backbone.
Dixon sends that email, but he calls his wife first to tell her that he loves her.
Aliasalways felt like it wastryingto be less complicated, but it just didnt believe in that kind of world.
But asAliasreboots itself, it takes all of its emotional baggage with it, and thats a compliment.
Its a standalone hour about how nothing ends.
