"Lock the doors and close the blinds -- we're going for a ride..."

"Alias" is back. It just burned off two of the final eight episodes last night.

Since it's been on hiatus for months now, I guess I kind of forgot how far removed from any sense of normalcy it is. I mean, we're talking about a CIA show which suspends reality so much that it makes "24" look as real as "Meet the Press."

Shocker! Vaughn is still alive! And, um, living with monks!  Grace has some weird relationship with the dude who killed his wife. Amy Acker's character (Peyton, I think) hired on Sydney Bristow's real doctor to play the evil doctor! Oooo! *insert jazz hands here* And nobody finds it in their brain to suspect Sloane and Derevko, the only main characters on the show who have constantly been evil, to be evil this time around? Sheesh.

Yet I'm drawn to it. I just want to see how they decide to end it.