Dark Angel, Complete Series DVD Box Set

A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees living in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.

DESCRIPTION: 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.

SUMMARY: In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced "transgenic" super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara (also known as X5-452), escapes along with 11 others like her, from a secret government institution. At the institution, codenamed Manticore, they were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. Months after Max (played by Jessica Alba)'s escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into utter chaos. The first season begins ten years later in 2019. It follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters.She tries to live her life, to evade capture, and to learn to trust and love. She is aided by Logan Cale, an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only, Alec, a fellow X-5, and her friends Original Cindy and Sketchy at Jam Pony, a courier company where she works as a bicycle messenger.

In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore and frees the soldiers. She is helped in her escape by Joshua, a transgenic with canine DNA, and later learns that he was the first of them made by Manticore's founder Sandeman. Max also finds out that Manticore produced soldiers for speciality environments such as desert and Arctic conditions and consequently look vastly different from normal humans. A major theme in the second season is the discovery of an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult similar in structure to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and even some with strong telekinetic powers. Ames White, a Government Agent met early in the second season trying to eliminate the loose transgenics, is found to be a member of the cult. When a strange message written in Max's genetic code makes an appearance on her skin, it is found that Sandeman was a renegade from the breeding cult.


Cast includes: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, John Savage, Valarie Rae Miller

This attractive DVD Box Set contains every episode from the entire two season run of the series

• Brand new and factory sealed
• Genres: Sci-Fi, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
  
• Number of DVDs In This Set: 12
• Wide screen or Full screen: Wide screen
• Region 0 (plays in all dvd players)
• Weight of Box Set: 1.1 lbs