Warning: Full spoilers for Alphas: Season 2 follow...
Anchored by the incredible David Strathairn (L.A. Confidential, Good Night and Good Luck) as team leader Dr. Lee Rosen, Alphas has always been a good show, if uneven at times. Sometimes hindered by its basic cable TV budget, Alphas makes up for its occasional fudging by giving us characters that we care about and emotional situations that resonate. Season 2 had a few low moments, but for the most part it revved things up with some large scale, master villain-style schemes from somber, Civil War-era villain, Stanton Parish.
Alphas' closest parallel is X-Men (creator Zak Penn co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and gets story credit on X2 and The Avengers), but many folks often bring up NBC's Heroes, since it's a notable recent TV series featuring out of costume super-humans. One of the problems that Heroes faced after, and even toward the end of, Season 1, was that they had a handful of characters that were so powerful that they couldn't write for them anymore without plummeting into logistical nightmares. Also, Heroes spent four seasons with our heroes not acting like heroes at all; forever policing and bickering among their own in a world that didn't even know they existed at all. Alphas solved these two problems by A: not making their characters overly-powerful (while also tying their abilities, as best they can, to biology), and B: having Dr. Rosen reveal the existence of Alphas to the world at the end of Season 1.
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