On the hunt for a killer, the team realizes the search has lead him directly to them with a deadly consequences.Free Download Video Alphas Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Alphas Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Five ordinary people are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas -- people with the unique power to tretch 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.I've missed Alphas, even if the show can be wildly inconsistent. When it's good, it delivers interesting stories, cute character interaction and greater story arcs. And, the key reason I review it is the excellent David Strathairn who I've found endlessly watchable since he played the blind Irwin 'Whistler' Emery in 1992's Sneakers.But I can't deny that the season opener fell a little flat on this TV critic, as the writers set about undoing all the chaos they'd created with the previous season finale, when Dr Rosen revealed the existence of Alphas to the public.
It started well enough with Rosen held in a mental institute by government forces unknown, while his various Alphas did their own thing or were locked up at Bingham. But dark forces in the form of Magneto clone, Stanton Parish are at work, and they'll soon alter the landscape.
What surprised me to a degree was that the show has returned seemingly untouched. All the characters are back, played by the same actors, looking almost identical to when we last saw them. OK, so Warren Christie (Hicks) has more facial hair, but it's like the show never went out of production.
That suggests the production team behind the show didn't want a major tonal shift, or to ditch characters in favour of new ones, or at least not from the outset on the second season.
So what was wrong with Wake Up Call? It's hard to exactly define it, but what began to annoy me to a degree was that the 'government', who are really the Alphas' bigger problem than Stanton Parish are now entirely faceless.
In an exclusive four-minute clip, which recaps where Season 1 left off and contains the first scene of Season 2, you soon find out that the special team at the core of the superhero-flavored show remains scattered when "Alphas" returns.
In the video below, we see that Dr. Lee Rosen (David Strathairn) is in prison for having revealed a huge secret at the end of Season 1. Rosen had been in charge of a secret team of Alphas, or people with extraordinary abilities, and to protest the treatment of these powerful men and women (not just the ones on his investigative team), he revealed the existence of Alphas to the world.
This did not go over well with his secrecy-minded government superiors, as you might imagine, and things don't look good for Rosen and his former charges when the season begins.
Having said that, it's not as though Syfy announced a major cast shakeup this year; the Season 2 premiere features the same roster of characters, as well as mentions of Stanton Parish (he's the Magneto to Rosen's Professor Xavier, to use an "X-Men" analogy). Parish (John Pyper-Ferguson) believes that Alphas are a superior race and that the government has no place using Alphas for its own ends, and though they don't necessarily believe they're better than everyone else, members of the "Alphas" team are often quite distrustful of the government's motives as well. The team is quite often tasked with finding and neutralizing rogue Alphas, but Rosen's squad and their superiors don't always agree on the definition of the word "rogue."
The "divided loyalties" theme continues to get a workout in Season 2 of "Alphas," as it does in so many quality superhero stories these days. A notable subplot of the hit "The Avengers," you may recall, had the team second-guessing the wily Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., and the genre as a whole could be regarded as one big investigation of the question "Who's in charge and why?"
The characters in "Alphas" continually wonder how much they should help the government versus how much they should assist or at least try to understand their own kind, the worst of which are sent to a grim Alphas prison facility called Binghamton. These matters are especially tricky for Rosen, who is not an Alpha but has a daughter with special powers, and Strathairn continues to offer a wonderfully low-key and compelling take on the caring Rosen in Season 2.
What developed over the first season of "Alphas" was the vibe that you often see in stories about groups with conflicted agendas: The team may have its own internal squabbles, but they band together to help each other and then decide whether to help (or hinder) outsiders on a case-by-case basis.
It started well enough with Rosen held in a mental institute by government forces unknown, while his various Alphas did their own thing or were locked up at Bingham. But dark forces in the form of Magneto clone, Stanton Parish are at work, and they'll soon alter the landscape.
What surprised me to a degree was that the show has returned seemingly untouched. All the characters are back, played by the same actors, looking almost identical to when we last saw them. OK, so Warren Christie (Hicks) has more facial hair, but it's like the show never went out of production.
That suggests the production team behind the show didn't want a major tonal shift, or to ditch characters in favour of new ones, or at least not from the outset on the second season.
So what was wrong with Wake Up Call? It's hard to exactly define it, but what began to annoy me to a degree was that the 'government', who are really the Alphas' bigger problem than Stanton Parish are now entirely faceless.
In an exclusive four-minute clip, which recaps where Season 1 left off and contains the first scene of Season 2, you soon find out that the special team at the core of the superhero-flavored show remains scattered when "Alphas" returns.
In the video below, we see that Dr. Lee Rosen (David Strathairn) is in prison for having revealed a huge secret at the end of Season 1. Rosen had been in charge of a secret team of Alphas, or people with extraordinary abilities, and to protest the treatment of these powerful men and women (not just the ones on his investigative team), he revealed the existence of Alphas to the world.
This did not go over well with his secrecy-minded government superiors, as you might imagine, and things don't look good for Rosen and his former charges when the season begins.
Having said that, it's not as though Syfy announced a major cast shakeup this year; the Season 2 premiere features the same roster of characters, as well as mentions of Stanton Parish (he's the Magneto to Rosen's Professor Xavier, to use an "X-Men" analogy). Parish (John Pyper-Ferguson) believes that Alphas are a superior race and that the government has no place using Alphas for its own ends, and though they don't necessarily believe they're better than everyone else, members of the "Alphas" team are often quite distrustful of the government's motives as well. The team is quite often tasked with finding and neutralizing rogue Alphas, but Rosen's squad and their superiors don't always agree on the definition of the word "rogue."
The "divided loyalties" theme continues to get a workout in Season 2 of "Alphas," as it does in so many quality superhero stories these days. A notable subplot of the hit "The Avengers," you may recall, had the team second-guessing the wily Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., and the genre as a whole could be regarded as one big investigation of the question "Who's in charge and why?"
The characters in "Alphas" continually wonder how much they should help the government versus how much they should assist or at least try to understand their own kind, the worst of which are sent to a grim Alphas prison facility called Binghamton. These matters are especially tricky for Rosen, who is not an Alpha but has a daughter with special powers, and Strathairn continues to offer a wonderfully low-key and compelling take on the caring Rosen in Season 2.
What developed over the first season of "Alphas" was the vibe that you often see in stories about groups with conflicted agendas: The team may have its own internal squabbles, but they band together to help each other and then decide whether to help (or hinder) outsiders on a case-by-case basis.