Review of Tuesday

Alias: Tuesday (2005)
Season 4, Episode 13
Now You're Talking !
6 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
The return of the golden days of (Alias); that was my comment after this one came to an end. Actually (Tuesday) proves that this show had the great talent and had lost it for a long time too.

Here, we have a strong plot which had been divided into 2 good parts: How (Marshall) will save (Sydney) from burying alive in Cuba, and How (Marshall) and (Sydney) will make it together and steal a terrorist's secrets. Both of them were outstanding, especially at that time of (Alias), to the extent that you'll say: wow.. Maybe all the rest wasn't that bad after all. Yes it's THAT good!

Look at the idea of paralyzing the APO's agency by bacterial virus while (Sydney) is in a coffin under the ground in Cuba, then how the clumsy (Marshall) is the only agent who can rescue her from inescapable suffocation. I adore the entire sequence of (Marshall) in the cemetery. The second part was no less suspenseful when (Marshall) tried to imitate his role model (Jack Bristow)! It's all genius writing, and the final result was as powerful as the script. And with (Marshall)s song to his baby about the nonmetallic elements, you have to admit that smart touches, like this one, are what make a show surpass!

The previous episode was all for (Nadia), and now they made one for (Marshall) who's a beloved character and the only un-brawny one in the team. So when we had the opportunity to watch him as successful as them in action; it was a victory for the poor un-brawny us!

It was all exceptional from the start till the great last scene of (Sydney) and (Vaughn) dancing romantically in the train station like it's a finale of a beautiful classic movie. Well, I kept telling myself while watching: this what made (Alias) a cult TV once, this was made to watch not one time but several times, and if only it was written like this all along!

Forget all about How the whole APO had no agents out of it to rescue (Sydney)?!, or What was the need for (Sydney)'s cell phone with whatever (Marshall) invented out of an old Cuban radio, while in the same time he could have easily used the satellite's thermal power as he did eventually, or How all the terrorists in the world had their offices in night clubs?!, or the old trite one about How (Sydney) could work under (Sloane)'s authority??!! Here, all of those silly questions are not allowed to be asked, simply you won't even have the time to ask them, since you're in the joy zone, having the most interesting time.

Just compare this fine episode to other shoddy ones of (Alias), then you'll find out that the shoddy are too many, yet the good are too few and too masterly enjoyable as well; quite like this one.
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