Alphas Pilot Review
Alphas premiered on Syfy Monday night. I recorded it to my DVR and started watching the pilot episode that night. About an hour into the one and a half hour (including commercial time) episode I stopped watching and went to bed. The show was interesting but not enough to keep me from getting sleepy.
Unfortunately, I didn’t feel any particular anxiousness to finish the episode, but today I watched the rest.
Alphas tells the story of several people who have special abilities. The people aren’t that interesting, and the acting wasn’t that great. The action was okay, as was the dialogue, but there really wasn’t anything special about the show.
I will watch at least one more episode of Alphas, but I don’t hold out a lot of hope that the show is going to hold my interest. On the surface, so far, I don’t see how it’s really that different from Heroes (at least the beginning of the series – I never watched past season 1).
There are several great science fiction television shows airing these days, including Eureka, Warehouse 13, and Falling Skies, to name three. Alphas isn’t going to be one of them, unless something magical happens in the second episode.
Alphas Pilot Description
Dr. Lee Rosen (played by David Strathairn) and his team of Alphas, extraordinary individuals who can stretch the capabilities of the human mind, investigate an implausible murder at the behest of the Department of Defense.
About Alphas
Five ordinary people are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas — people with the unique power to stretch the capabilities of the human mind giving them superhuman physical and mental abilities.
Operating within the Defense Criminal Investigation Service of the U.S. Department of Defense and led by preeminent neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Lee Rosen, an expert in Alpha phenomena, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities. As they work against the clock to solve this new brand of crime, they must prevent their own personality differences and disparate backgrounds from interfering with their ultimate mission to catch the enemy.