
Dark Angel
3.8
(1.9K)
Action & Adventure
Drama
2002
43 min
TV-14
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
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"This is by far my favorite TV show of all time. If anything it was ahead of it’s time with it’s social commentary and optimism for agency, community, and social change. This has a somewhat too real dystopian setting of America in the future after an electromagnetic pulse occurs. The class divide is exponential, with most people living in poverty and not having access to medicine, high quality resources, nor access to higher education unless you are wealthy or well connected to someone in power. The country is divided into sectors and individuals must have clearances or passes to leave or travel into other sectors. Corporations and the individuals in charge of them have basically taken control in a sort of late stage capitalism oligarchy. 👀 The sector police have selective ethics on who they charge with crimes, largely based on transactional bribery and power dynamics as they allow people with low income to live certain buildings for bribes. The main character is named Max, also known by her barcode #452. She is a genetically modified person raised by the military in their attempt to create “super soldiers”. During middle childhood, her and some of her genetically modified super soldier siblings rise up and escape. The children have to split up in order to survive and this sets one of the big premises of the show, as she is searching as an adult for her siblings who escaped with her that might from Manticore, the military compound. I cannot put into words how much I love this show. I watched this as a child, then bought it and watched it repeatedly. Lol. I will probably go watch it again soon because it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. "