"Aeon Flux" (1991) TV series

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Creator:

Peter Chung

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

12 September 1996 (Denmark)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Action

Plot:

Aeon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained...

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Secret Agent | Immorality | Surrealism | Innuendo

Cast

Denise Poirier	...	Æon Flux (3 episodes, 1995)
John Rafter Lee	...	Trevor Goodchild (3 episodes, 1995)

Also Known As:

"Æon Flux" (USA) (alternative spelling)
"MTV's Æon Flux" (USA)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials)

Country:

Hong Kong | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) (DVD) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (DVD) | Australia:M (some episodes) | UK:15 (some epiosodes) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Japan:R-18 | USA:TV-MA

Company:

CCHTV

Trivia:

Began as a series of short films for MTV. Each of these films, plus a couple of full episodes, ended with Aeon Flux being killed, with continuity being "rebooted" in the following episode. This angle was phased out over time. Plans for a second season were discussed, but as of 2005 have yet to be fulfilled.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Trevor Goodchild: The unobserved state is a fog of probabilities, a window of and for error. The watcher observes, the fog collapses, an event resolves. A theory becomes a fact... What is the truth? Tell me, if you know. And I will not believe you. Things are never what they seem. Clean gloves hide dirty hands - and mine are dirtier than most... Without truth, there can be no justice. Justice will be done!

Movie Connections:

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Explorative Animation! Fantastic!

Having first seen Aeon Flux as MTV shorts I was instantly captivated, breaking free from the constraints of the "standard" method of story telling, so much is left in the mysterious and unknown, with very imaginative and surreal atmosphere, in some cases one feels like they have just been dropped in the middle of a story with no real explanation of what is going on, its not needed it adds to effect. An interesting format that the heroine is killed off only to be reincarnated in the next short, almost like a video game in some contexts.

This format was eventually abandoned and a more story like series followed, which might lead one to believe that the initial shorts might of been proof of concept or tests? These episodes are very similar in the same surreal atmosphere but with a little more story line and plot driven in to make them more durable.

A highly imaginative animation series that is worth inclusion in anyones collection especially those seeking something a little off the beaten path.