More or less...Like Buffy, it uses outlandish, sci/fi-ish extremes to deal with real-life problems, here mostly family-related. Like Buffy, no matter how much disbelief you have to suspend throughout the run of the series, the characters themselves are always completely believable, which helps you accept the other stuff.
La Femme Nikita, only better/worse;
Haven't seen it, although I've heard there are some parallels, but most places I've seen concede that Alias is the better show, including some people who liked Nikita better, meaning that their favorite show is still LFN, but they admit that the writing and acting is better on Alias.
owes something to Run Lola Run;
Not really. The closest I could think is the pilot episode where one of Sydney's covers is as a girl with orange hair. Other than that, um, no, not really.
the most intriguing characters are people nicknamed Spy Mommy and Spy Daddy, a KGB agent and CIA agent respectively who somehow spawned the heroine of the show.
Yes, to a certain degree. They're never called Spy Mommy and Spy Daddy in the series. They are Irina Derevko (cover name Laura Bristow) and Jack Bristow, and they are among the most intriguing characters on the show, but IMO the most intriguing are Sloane and Sark, but I won't spoil for you who they are.
I definitely recommend you watch it. It's one of my favorite shows...but I strongly recommend you watch every episode in order, because it's even more complicated than X-Files--there are no episodes that break away from the main arc completely and the mythology is incredibly complex, to the point that now in year 3 we don't understand all of it fully--and even harder to join mid-story than Buffy. It's well-worth seeing all of them though, because it's immensely fun: the actiony stuff, the character-driven stuff and the absolutely jaw-dropping plot twists, some of which forever change the show. And when this show drops a bombshell that "forever changes it," it really does, unlike some shows that promote something like that and then go back on it.
Anyway, the first season is available in Europe. Here's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AVB6Y/qid=1073150181/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-5202678-8985255) a link. The second isn't yet, but it came out in the U.S. only months after the first, so I assume you guys will be getting the second, which is even better than the first, pretty soon.
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More or less...Like Buffy, it uses outlandish, sci/fi-ish extremes to deal with real-life problems, here mostly family-related. Like Buffy, no matter how much disbelief you have to suspend throughout the run of the series, the characters themselves are always completely believable, which helps you accept the other stuff.
La Femme Nikita, only better/worse;
Haven't seen it, although I've heard there are some parallels, but most places I've seen concede that Alias is the better show, including some people who liked Nikita better, meaning that their favorite show is still LFN, but they admit that the writing and acting is better on Alias.
owes something to Run Lola Run;
Not really. The closest I could think is the pilot episode where one of Sydney's covers is as a girl with orange hair. Other than that, um, no, not really.
the most intriguing characters are people nicknamed Spy Mommy and Spy Daddy, a KGB agent and CIA agent respectively who somehow spawned the heroine of the show.
Yes, to a certain degree. They're never called Spy Mommy and Spy Daddy in the series. They are Irina Derevko (cover name Laura Bristow) and Jack Bristow, and they are among the most intriguing characters on the show, but IMO the most intriguing are Sloane and Sark, but I won't spoil for you who they are.
I definitely recommend you watch it. It's one of my favorite shows...but I strongly recommend you watch every episode in order, because it's even more complicated than X-Files--there are no episodes that break away from the main arc completely and the mythology is incredibly complex, to the point that now in year 3 we don't understand all of it fully--and even harder to join mid-story than Buffy. It's well-worth seeing all of them though, because it's immensely fun: the actiony stuff, the character-driven stuff and the absolutely jaw-dropping plot twists, some of which forever change the show. And when this show drops a bombshell that "forever changes it," it really does, unlike some shows that promote something like that and then go back on it.
Anyway, the first season is available in Europe. Here's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AVB6Y/qid=1073150181/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-5202678-8985255) a link. The second isn't yet, but it came out in the U.S. only months after the first, so I assume you guys will be getting the second, which is even better than the first, pretty soon.