# Tell me a secret...agent show you like

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-a-secret-agent-show-you-like/922005 "2020-10-02T02:14:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-a-secret-agent-show-you-like/922005/23 "2020-10-02T13:30:03Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> We still wonder how it happened, because we usually encouraged our grade school aged kids to watch intelligent, challenging television, buuuut… as soon as **ALIAS** came on, the kids would jump in our bed and giggle whenever Sydney Bristow dropkicked a bad guy.
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> Recently rewatched it on Netflix, and it holds up. Jennifer Garner and Bradley Cooper are great as friends, and Victor Garber makes a wonderful "Spy Dad

I’d also give it a bonus point for the central starting premise:

Sydney — like Marcus Dixon, and who knows how many others — was the sort of person who’d enthusiastically go to to work for the CIA; and a guy (a) who doesn’t actually work for the CIA (b) just showed up and said whatever a CIA recruiter would’ve.

The simplicity of that is a thing of beauty.

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