Basket of Kisses

First of all, sorry for the confusion. Next week is the Alphas season finale. Last week’s “scenes from next week” said “Countdown to the Season Finale,” and I couldn’t find anything on syfy.com about the finale date, and I finally just assumed. The season finale is God’s Eye and airs on October 22. This week [...]

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Yes, Senator, you are right. My team is dangerous. And so am I. Wow. If Memory Serves was another great episode of Alphas. I’m starting to have faith in this show again. One of the amazing things about this episode is it actually touched on every single character. Usually we get an A story and [...]

I expected that Life After Death would be a contemplative episode of Alphas, exploring the feelings aroused by last week’s action-packed shock-ending bonanza, and I was right. The heart of the episode was Dr. Rosen’s slow exploration of grief. Warren Christie (Cameron Hicks) is not the actor David Strathairn (Rosen) is, so his grief, while [...]

Wow. Before the ending of this episode of Alphas, before the slam-bang holy cow drama and tears and all of that happened, I was thinking to myself that The Devil Will Drag You Under was a great episode. The action was thrilling, the stakes were high, the pacing was sharp, the filming was moody. It [...]

1. Comments were accidentally turned off for The White Spirit. I don’t know how that happened — the software should prevent that kind of error. I apologize because we’ve had lively discussions on Hell on Wheels. They’re on now. 2. Alphas for this week will go up a little late. Maybe this afternoon, maybe tomorrow.

Falling is a lovely title for this week’s Alphas, just symbolic enough. Almost everyone is seeing the dark side of who they are and what they do, and that, combined with a strong, compelling adventure of the week, and an emotion-laden David Strathairn performance, and this is about the best episode of the season.

Hey folks. I just got back from a few days out of town. There will be a delay in your weekly Alphas recap — it’ll be up late Tuesday or maybe Wednesday. Sorry.

Alphas, like a lot of television shows, has exactly three things going on each week: First, the plot of the week (or plots, the A and B), second, character development, and third, the long arc of through-plot. This week, there was virtually no character development at all, and the plot-of-the-week and on-going arc converged. It [...]

In case you’re wondering about the title, Alphaville is a truly weird 1965 science fiction film directed by Jean Luc Godard. You could strain to draw some connections between the film—featuring a titular city that may be inescapable, or perhaps is another world—and the episode. But I’m inclined to think someone just thought the wordplay [...]

Alphas is one of those shows that is deft at its genre episodes. It does buddy comedy, action/adventure, romance, crime drama, and so on. This week’s episode, Gaslight, was a horror movie. Early on, Cameron and Bill had a conversation that hung a lantern on the horror tropes we’d subsequently see, but in general, it [...]

Episode 203: Alpha Dogs So, Alphas have a Fight Club. And someone is recruiting Alphas and experimenting on them. To death. And Dr. Rosen is researching Stanton Parrish, finding a medical diary from the late 1800s, which appears to be when Parrish first discovered his own immortality. Also, Bill is becoming comfortable with his powers [...]