If there’s a misfire to this near-perfect season, it’s that Max’s quirky and raspy-voiced roommate Kendra (Jennifer Blanc) falls out of the cast at midseason. When an even worse baddie – Nana Visitor’s Renfro – is introduced late in the season, Lydecker becomes a bad guy we root for. His actions are vicious, but he loves his X5 children like a father. John Savage is excellent as the central villain, Manticore head Donald Lydecker.
MacKenzie’s Normal, Jam Pony’s straight-laced punching-bag boss. The Jam Pony crew rarely gets their own plotlines – especially as the season goes on – but you can’t underestimate their importance as Max’s real-world friend base, a contrast to her militaristic adventures with her X5 siblings. Original Cindy (Valarie Rae Miller) is known for having flavor in the way she speaks (“boo,” “dealio,” “blaze”), but also bringing some flavor are Herbal Thought (Alimi Ballard) and Sketchy (Richard Gunn). The writers regularly give us reasons why they can’t quite be together, and they are almost always valid (if frustrating) reasons. I may have been more fixated on “Roswell’s” Max-and-Liz, but Max-and-Logan ranks right up there as a star-crossed romance. In her career-defining role, Alba – who masters the stealthy movements of an X5 along with wry statements about Max’s lot in life – has sparkling chemistry with Michael Weatherly’s (mostly) wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan. The casting is another source of richness.
Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Richard Gunn But especially in the first of its two seasons, “Dark Angel” makes great use of its money, creating a post-apocalyptic third-world US city out of turn-of-the-century Vancouver while also adding tasty details about the state of the economy into every episode.Ĭreators: James Cameron, Charles H. The formula didn’t work, as ratings were never high enough to pay for the show long-term.
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Sparing no expenseĪlthough “Terra Nova” (2011) would take one more stab at it, the James Cameron-produced “Dark Angel” is the high-water mark of a now-defunct breed of TV show: one that spends almost movie-blockbuster amounts of money over the course of a traditional-length season. But boy does it ever create post-Pulse 2019 Seattle in convincing fashion. “Dark Angel” treads more familiar ground, creating a mythology out of the old sci-fi concept of genetically engineered people – namely titular heroine Max (Jessica Alba) - who want to live normal lives. When it aired, it was overshadowed by genre rivals like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” that were doing notably special work. I had forgotten – or maybe not even fully realized – how good “Dark Angel” Season 1 (2000-01, Fox) is.
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