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One of the best things science fiction can do is push us to confront questions of morality. When a work of realistic…
Reviews - Alphas
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I sometimes think one of the worst things that ever happened to genre storytelling is the idea that being “dark” or…
B+
“If Memory Serves” is as crammed full of incident as last week’s episode was light on things happening. It…
B-
“Life After Death” was a necessary episode of Alphas, but I can’t say it was an episode I very much enjoyed. Maybe…
B+
“The Devil Will Drag You Under” is what I like to call an onion episode. It starts out in a place that seems weird,…
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Every week, Alphas throws a bunch of balls in the air, and almost every week, it finds a way to catch them all. It…
B
“Gods And Monsters” takes its fair time getting to where it’s going, but once it does, it builds up a nice head of…
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Dr. Rosen and the team are visiting a special hideaway for Alphas, and the second the leader—Claude—tells Rosen that…
B+
Alphas has been having its ratings troubles this season, falling below the million viewers mark last week and not…
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I’m of two minds about “When Push Comes To Shove,” which started out rather desperate and clumsy, then abruptly…
B+
Down at the bottom of everything, Alphas is just a cop show. It’s a cop show with a fun, science-fiction twist, and…
B
I realize it’s a bit glib to say this about an episode where the guest Alpha had super speed, but a lot of tonight’s…
B
The thing I like best about Alphas is its no-nonsense character relationships and interaction. Over the course of…
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There’s some stupid stuff in the first season finale of Alphas—much of it stemming from the fact that the show has a…
B
Can we just discuss for a moment how bizarre it is that David Strathairn is starring in a SyFy drama about…
A
That? That was an Alphas episode to make viewers feel justified in sticking with the show this long. It’s not that…
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I’ve spent the past week or so praising Alphas to anyone who will listen, and now, of course, the show has gone and…
B+
Last week, I complained some about Alphas’ guest casting, so let’s do some credit where credit’s due stuff and point…
B
A big part of the reason that Alphas is cooking along so well is because all of its characters are at once…
B+
One of the things that’s making me think Alphas is a cut above the usual sci-fi TV show is the fact that the…