ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tonight's Best TV Monday, July 11, 2011
A Daily Guide To Notable Shows
... Alphas
10-11:30 PM SYFY, SERIES DEBUT
Five people with heightened abilities (superstrength, supersenses, etc.) band together to fight crime. The quintet are led by David Strathairn, who's sort of Professor X to their X-Men (the premiere is co-written by X3 screenwriter Zak Penn). Strathairn helps the credibility of the melodrama a lot. Alphas may remind some viewers of Heroes, and is a dropped ABC pilot, but it's not damaged goods. It's fun and swift, and Callum Keith Rennie has a bigger role than he did on The Killing, here playing the Alphas' Pentagon contact.
B
— Ken Tucker
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