"Dark Angel" (2000)TV series 2000-2002

Creators:

James Cameron
Charles H. Eglee

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

3 October 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Engineered To Raise Hell.

Plot:

A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.

Plot Keywords:

Experiment Gone Wrong | Action Heroine | Paranoid | Secret Organization | Hacker

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 18 nominations

Cast

Jessica Alba	...	Max Guevera / ... (42 episodes, 2000-2002)
Michael Weatherly	...	Logan Cale / ... (42 episodes, 2000-2002)
Valarie Rae Miller	...	Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin (39 episodes, 2000-2002)
Richard Gunn	...	Calvin 'Sketchy' Theodore (37 episodes, 2000-2002)
J.C. MacKenzie	...	Reagan 'Normal' Ronald (36 episodes, 2000-2002)
Jensen Ackles	...	Alec / ... (19 episodes, 2001-2002)
John Savage	...	Donald Lydecker (18 episodes, 2000-2001)

Also Known As:

James Cameron's Dark Angel (USA)

Runtime:

60 min | USA:60 min (42 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (DeLuxe)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

South Korea:12 (Episodes 1-8) | South Korea:15 (Episodes 9-20) | Ireland:18 (Season 2) | Ireland:15 (Season 1) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA (some episodes) | Australia:M (some episodes) | Singapore:PG | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The show was canceled on a cliffhanger.

Goofs:

Continuity: In "The Berissford Agenda" Logan acts like it's the first time he's met and seen Joshua. This is false because he saw Joshua before in "Two".

Quotes:

[to Original Cindy]
Max Guevara: Damn girl, you da' man!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Rob Lowe/Eminem (#26.1)" (2000)

Hideously Bad - Jessica Alba kills the show dead

I didn't have much hope for this show. After all, one of the writer-producers declared proudly that he didn't like Science-Fiction and that it therefore was going to help him make a great Science-Ficiton show.

Sorry, but that sort of speech is usually followed by a dud, because it is very difficult to excel at something you don't even like.

Dark Angel met all those expectations and more.

But what really killed this show was Jessica Alba. You can imagine the producers going "wow, what a babe!! With her in it, our show will be a major hit!" And it's exactly that kind of condescension for the audience that killed this show.

Jessica alba can't act. Her grimaces make her utterly unattractive and she can't speak lines correctly. She's not even athletic enough to be convincing in action scenes.

Without Jessica alba, this show may have had a chance to get better. But with her, Dark Angel was DOA artistically. James Cameron's name sustained it for two more seasons than it deserved.

It won't be missed.