“Alpha Dogs” was set up to seem like the usual Alpha-of-the-week episode, but it quickly became clear that the mysterious  Alphas  fight club  the team was investigating was only a backdrop for a set of much more relevant developments. Rath more

With Nina gone (for at least a little while) it was about that time for Alphas to bring some fresh faces into the mix, and " Alpha Dogs " did just that. Kat is an Alpha who can learn anything, but only for a short-term period. In exchange for being a q more

Fresh off his recent role in The Amazing Spider-Man, '80s film star C. Thomas Howell guest starred this week as a young man named Eli whose super-speed powers caused him to age rapidly. Now, newly sprung from Binghamton, Eli is tracking down the old docto more

I admire the fact that we started off Season 2, after Dr. Rosen's brave and bold national announcement regarding Alphas in the Season 1 finale, with all our heroes scattered about and Dr. Rosen locked up in a psych ward. Usually this kind of separation al more

“The Quick and the Dead ,” wasted no time reinforcing the idea that our  Alphas  team had changed dramatically in the time that Rosen had been locked up. I will probably incur the wrath of the Nina/Hicks shippers out there, but I kind of li more

Alphas continues to be a much better sum of its parts this season, and " The Quick and the Dead " began taking some risks in the storytelling, all of which is already bearing payoffs. The first risk is deciding to play Nina so quickly. Nina’s continued more

When we last left Alphas , there was a definite sense of change , and all of it was for the better. " Walk Up Call " tempers the expectations I’ve placed on Alphas for almost a year now, but, while the shape of this season is largely coming back togeth more

Ever since Dr. Rosen took the  Alphas  phenomenon public and left us hanging at the end of last season, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the return of  Alphas . I had the pleasure of screening an advanced copy of the  Alphas season two p more