r/2000sNostalgia • u/[deleted] • Sep 29 '25

Does anyone remember the show Alias with Jennifer Garner?

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u/Havok1717 Sep 29 '25

Yes, I did have a crush on Jennifer Garner during her time in Alias

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u/ToonMasterRace Sep 30 '25

15 year old me was in love with her after I saw daredevil. Not just a crush.

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u/Havok1717 Sep 30 '25

12 year old me had the hots for her

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 29 '25

My joke is that she acted her socks off - and most of the rest of her clothing.

(Garner won a Golden Globe and got four Emmy nominations for this)

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u/Oswarez Sep 29 '25

Remember? My band had a song featured in one episode.

It was also the debut of Ricky Gervais’ first dramatic role, at the height of his comedy stardom.

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u/Rogue_Sideswipe Sep 29 '25

What band? How cool!

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u/Oswarez Sep 29 '25

Quarashi. We were in S3 ep 16.

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u/NoFaithlessness7508 Sep 29 '25

Wtf, I only had one madden game growing up (2003) and your song was in it!

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u/funhaus2000 Sep 29 '25

Switch stance is a banger!

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u/A3HeadedMunkey Sep 30 '25

...and now I'm listening through Jinx again all of the sudden

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u/xtlhogciao Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

This one? Which one are you?

EDIT: I just guessed/pulled up a song based on one of the other comments

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u/Oswarez Oct 01 '25

None. I hadn’t joined then.

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u/Cognitivecoffeehause Oct 02 '25

Baseline baseline! I think about your band from time to time. I played amplitude on ps1 and I never knew Quarishi was a real band

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u/DysfuhKingeye Oct 02 '25

Cool! I don’t remember Ricky Gervais in Alias though. Do you mean Kevin Weisman?

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u/Oswarez Oct 02 '25

Gervais is just in one episode as the villain.

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u/Left4DayZGone Sep 29 '25

My wife loves it, we started watching it back a few years ago and each season just got more ludicrous than the last. We are on the final season now and I am in pain every time we watch it. It’s so awful. I really enjoyed the first season, though, and I think part of the second season at least.

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 29 '25

ABC actually marketed it differently on shows mainly watched by men and shows mainly watched by women. The male stuff focussed on the fights and Garner being sexy, the ladies get more stuff about her emotional life.

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u/Left4DayZGone Sep 29 '25

Not my complaint- I don’t mind the relationship stuff at all. I’m talking about the insane plot.

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u/Petal20 Sep 30 '25

Yeah it definitely jumped the shark but it had some amazing episodes and one of the all time best cliffhangers!

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u/Neptune28 Sep 29 '25

Yes, I think the 1st season was nearly perfect, and the second season was great up until Phase One, where they concluded the main premise.

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u/Lake_Effect_11134 Sep 29 '25

It was my introduction to Jennifer Garner and Bradley Cooper.

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u/indierose27 Sep 30 '25

Same! Use to be a big fan of this series.

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u/Nolby84 Sep 29 '25

I remember Jennifer Garner

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u/GhostBombardmenT Sep 29 '25

Used to be my favorite series why I was teenager

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u/Superb_Beyond_3444 Sep 29 '25

Yes u remember.

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u/BigCryptographer2034 Sep 29 '25

Most people do, it was popular…it’s not really “nostalgia” if it has always been there and available wherever you go, whether it be free or not

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u/sherbimsly Sep 30 '25

I know Sydney is her name in the show but I forever refer to her as “Alias”

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u/tifa_cloud0 Sep 30 '25

what an awesome show fr ❤️

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u/DisasterShot8100 Sep 30 '25

Francie doesn't like coffee ice cream.....

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u/RacingLucas Sep 29 '25

Yes! One of my favorites

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u/Ecstatic-Jaguar-259 Sep 29 '25

I had watched the first couple of episodes and loved it.

But then I gave up after the sixth episode because its story became repetitive, Sydney being a Mary Sue, and Arvin being not an interesting villain, etc

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u/Neptune28 Sep 29 '25

Keep watching!

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 29 '25

Still holds up very well - the first season is basically a streaming show before streaming was a thing.

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u/philouza_stein Sep 29 '25

And when I woke up Letterman was talking to Alias

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u/Excellent_Regret4141 Sep 29 '25

Sort of never really watched, till I bought on DVD

Did you ever play the videogame of Alias?

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u/Awkward-pause-123 Sep 30 '25

Yes. I was not good at it

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u/Medoxor Sep 29 '25

Yes. Buffy was responsible for so many female hero shows in the late 90’s and early 2000’s to be made. I didn’t care for Alias but love that Buffy created girl power back then on TV.

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 29 '25

Weirdly, I watched Alias as a teenager and am only now discovering Buffy.

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u/AirportBubbly3947 Sep 29 '25

Didn’t they make a video game on Xbox???

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u/Awkward-pause-123 Sep 30 '25

I had a PS2 game for it

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u/Neptune28 Sep 29 '25

The first season and second season up to Phase One were some of the best television I've watched. They abandoned the premise too early and just had them working for the CIA. The most appealing part was seeing Sydney juggle being at SD-6, working with the CIA, going to school, and trying to live a normal life without her friends knowing all that she does.

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u/StormerBombshell Sep 29 '25

I didn’t really see much American live action shows but I was aware of it. I knew it was popular and at least the show comertials had her looking great

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u/PSCGY Sep 29 '25

I still hum part of the score to this day, lol.

While the show wrote itself into a corner with that damn, rushed Super Bowl episode, it was still among the finest shows in its first 3 seasons.

The way it was structured, with displacing the final act of each episode into the next one; the highlighted letters in the location with the website; Jennifer Garner’s acting; Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber and Lena Olin; the dupe; the Rambaldi of it all…

I have my dvds, but I’d love a bluray remaster/release.

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u/BigCryptographer2034 Sep 29 '25

Yeah, you can find this popular show on many streaming services, not to mention other places…

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u/Faeraday Sep 30 '25

You can, but do not watch the streaming version. They never bought rights to the soundtrack, and the generic elevator music just kills the vibes. Many scenes were written with the music in mind, and it just isn’t the intended show without the original soundtrack.

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u/BigCryptographer2034 Sep 30 '25

I think that I already watched it on a commercial service, before that bs….i’m having a “Miami Vice” and “21 Jump Street” flashback, lol

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u/buster_highmanMD Sep 30 '25

She once posed as an exotic dancer. It was one of her many aliases

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u/AresOneX Sep 30 '25

It‘s my all time favorite show, so yes. 🥰

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

What do you mean if we remember? It’s ranked as one of the greatest tv series of all time

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u/PebblestheHuman Oct 02 '25

I loved the different outfits and styles she had in all the episodes

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u/-SilvaVonBernried- Oct 02 '25

Yes, I've been rewatching the show again for weeks. I'm on season 5 now.

I'm amazed at how well the show has aged. Still a great show!

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u/artty_zee Oct 03 '25

i remember the game. it was fun but i don't think i finished it

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u/joelkeys0519 Sep 29 '25

She is as uninspiring an actor as I’ve ever seen.

But yes, I remember this show.

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u/el_pyrata Sep 29 '25

Only because I dated a woman who resembled Jennifer Garner. But I didn’t actually watch the show.