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Dark Angel:S1

Jessica Alba (Actor), Michael Weatherly (Actor), David Nutter (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (133 customer reviews)

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One of TV's more interesting tough-girl action shows, Dark Angel is a distinctive blend of the personal, the adventurous, and the politically aware. Cocreators James Cameron and Charles Eglee present a complex scenario of biological super-science and social collapse in which their gene-manipulated heroine and hacker-journalist hero can genuinely make a difference. In this first season they also provide an adversary who is a lot more than just a conventional villain.

Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralyzed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption, and other skullduggeries and assigning deadly errands to the woman he hopelessly loves. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has stretched his conscience to the breaking point, but is not personally corrupt. Some of the best episodes--"Prodigy," for example--are ones in which Lydeker and Max are forced into temporary alliance. Early on, the relationship between Max and the other workers at Jam Pony--the courier firm that provides her with a cover identity--is a little forced, but later on the two parts of Max's life are more successfully integrated: "Shorties in Love," for example, is a genuinely touching tale about Diamond, the doomed criminal ex-lover of Max's lesbian roommate. Dark Angel was never a perfect show, but at its occasional best it manages to be simultaneously funny and dramatic. --Roz Kaveney

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why Dark Angel Got Cancelled, Jun 7 2003
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Charles A. Blackledge "Chuck" (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Angel:S1 (DVD)
The first season of Dark Angel was great. I liked the cat and mouse game between Max and Lydecker. The second season is where the problems started. It was more about Max chasing down the freaks she let out of Manicore than anything else. It got old watching her chase down a different hybrid each week. I'm probably not the only that feels this way: as ratings diminished during the second season, it was moved from it's nice Tuesday spot to Friday (the touch of death), and eventially cancelled.

Overall, this was still a solid series, but it's ashame the storyline didn't continue on the path it was on during the first season.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Grippng story, heroine, hero & villain., Jan 28 2003
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C. V. Finn (Milwaukee, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Angel:S1 (DVD)
My first exposure to Dark Angel was the episode entitled Blah, Blah, Woof Woof. From then on, Dark Angel night was a must with no interruptions allowed. The premise of this show, creating genetically altered human beings, is a controversial topic. The illegally diverted government funds that paid for the experiment added to the story's vitality. The characters were complex and dynamic: a heroine in search of her humanity and how she fit into a society that was not ready for her altered state; a hero driven to confront and expose the injustices of a "third-world" United States and the business corruption that exploited the down-trodden while benefitting from that same corruption; a cold-blooded villain whose dedication to and protection of the genetically enhanced humans made him feared and heralded simultaneously. Both the friends and enemies of these characters kept the action suspenseful and well paced.

The characters dealt with the world we face and its problems. Their motives and actions were as complex as humans can be with no easy answers. The plot and characters interweaved well and kept the audience intrigued. The actors kept getting better as their characters developed. I still miss this show. I'm hoping that a movie or another "series" or "special" will continue the story. The book Before the Dawn, published after cancellation, was a welcome addition to the background story.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Much Better then most shows out there, Jun 5 2006
This review is from: Dark Angel:S1 (DVD)
Dark Angel brings you to new levels of understanding of the "what could be out there".
The show is about test tube babies that have mixed DNA in them to be the Superman soldiers of our time BUT 12 of the children escape to find themselves in a world where they know nothing and definitely do not belong.
The show forces on the life of one girl who never knew what it was like to risk her life for anyone but herself but does little by little. This all takes place in a future (in like 20 years) right after a pulse hits and makes the USA the new 3rd world country of the world.
Yes agreed the whole action scenes could have been more Hollywood BUT anyone who understands anything would know that it is placed in a 3rd world country would know there would NOT be all the hype. The show is excellent and worth the 2 seasons that were made and much more. Buffy and Angel (no worries much love for these shows) were on the air much longer and the main idea of the show was fight this and save the world yet again. Darn shame I say. Dark Angel is worth the money and the time of watch each and every episode.
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