Everybody eats some ‘Body’
J.J. Abrams has admitted that the idea for “Alias” (the best show in the history of television) came late one night in the writers’ room of his first show, “Felicity,” when the staff jokingly imagined what would happen if its awkward, painfully self-aware protagonist was transported from her melodramatic college existence into the life of a kick-ass spy. The results were legendary — Abrams brought Felicity’s emotional resonance and defiant morality into a wonderful world of action, intrigue and sex.
Fresh off the success of her debut screenplay “Juno,” Diablo Cody must have had a...