Original run: October 3, 2000 � May 3, 2002
Original channel: FOX Broadcasting Company
No. of episodes: 42 episodes with 2 seasons
Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee created this futuristic action drama with trademark of high-tech flair. Dark Angel was a 60-minute Sci-Fi TV series, set in a seedy Seattle that's run by a band of greedy and corrupt power brokers. The show starred by a nineteen-year-old Jessica Alba as Max Guevara (Dark Angel), a genetically enhanced superhuman living in the 21st Century America where government and police control everything. She searches for others of her kind, while trying to lead some resemblance of a normal life. She teams up with a crusading cyber journalist named Logan Cale (played by Michael Weatherly) to fight the forces of evil.
Dark Angel Story
Living in the post-apocalyptic future in the year 2019, Max Guevara, also known as X5-452, is 19-year-old, genetically engineered warrior-child with a bar code on the back of her neck. She escaped from the secret government institution, together with the other 11 kids. She is looking for the others with whom she fled, that long-ago wintry night that made their way into the world. Months after Max's escape, terrorists set off an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the absolute majority of computers and communication systems, making the country into perfect chaos.
Back in 2009 at the institution named Manticore, Max was part of a highly classified genetic enhancement project. They were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. As a 9-year-old child, she and several other children were trained in a deeply secluded compound to use their superhuman powers.
Now a beautiful young bike messenger and thief, Max is trying to find her lost "siblings" from the project. In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation, she tries to live her life, to evade capture, and to learn how to trust and love. Max distrusts and distance are inevitably rocked by a famous underground idealistic Cyber-journalist named Logan Cale (Max�s combination of nemesis and romantic interests), aka Eye Only, and assists him in dealing with corruption. Initially, Max is reluctant to help Logan, but ultimately brings her superhuman abilities. She becomes his samurai as the pair takes on the ruthless power-brokers of the new millennium. Max and Logan's odyssey leads them closer to the secret of her past, deepening and complicating their relationship in the process.
Super-powers and Abilities
Our heroine, Max Guevara appears to be Manticore's perfect specimen - beautiful, athletic and wise beyond her years. Although she often struggles with higher moral principles than her peers, Max is certainly the most free-spoken rebel against Manticore's re-programming. She is usually first to recognise the truth behind interpersonal misunderstandings, and the saving graces of her apparently irredeemable adversaries in this futuristic American dystopia.
Max has animal characteristics endowed with superior strength, speed, agility, endurance and recuperative powers. Her superior abilities include telescopic vision; she can also see in the dark, but only in monochrome green; she has great leaping ability; she has the ability to hear conversations from afar, outrun enemies, and overpower most other human beings.
Dark Angel Costume
Max acting like she's in a trance all the time, riding around on her omnipresent motorcycle, wearing a sexy black leather cat suit and boots.
Dark Angel Episodes
Season One
#0 Pilot (Airdate: 10/03/00)
#1 Heat(Airdate: 10/10/00)
#2 Flushed (Airdate: 10/17/00)
#3 C.R.E.A.M. (Airdate: 10/31/00)
#4 411 On The DL (Airdate: 11/14/00)
#5 Prodigy (Airdate: 11/21/00)
#6 Cold Comfort (Airdate: 11/28/00)
#7 Blah Blah, Woof Woof (Airdate: 12/12/00)
#8 Out (Airdate: 01/09/01)
#9 Red (Airdate: 01/16/01)
#10 Art Attack (Airdate: 02/06/01)
#11 Rising (Airdate: 02/13/01)
#12 The Kidz Are Aiight (Airdate: 02/20/01)
#13 Female Trouble (Airdate: 03/13/01)
#14 Haven (Airdate: 03/27/01)
#15 Shorties in Love (Airdate: 04/17/01)
#16 Pollo Loco (Airdate: 04/24/01)
#17 I and I Am A Camera (Airdate: 05/01/01)
#18 Hit A Sista Back (Airdate: 05/08/01)
#19 Meow (Airdate: 05/15/01)
#20 ...And Jesus Brought A Casserole (Airdate: 05/22/01)
Season Two
#1 Designate This (Airdate: 09/28/01)
#2 Bag 'Em (Airdate: 10/05/01)
#3 Proof of Purchase (Airdate: 10/12/01)
#4 Radar Love (Airdate: 10/26/01)
#5 Boo (Airdate: 11/02/01)
#6 Two (Airdate: 11/09/01)
#7 Some Assembly Required (Airdate: 11/16/01)
#8 Gill Girl (Airdate: 12/07/01)
#9 Medium is the Message (Airdate: 12/14/01)
#10 Brainiac (Airdate: 01/11/02)
#11 The Berrisford Agenda (Airdate: 01/18/02)
#12 Borrowed Time (Airdate: 02/01/02)
#13 Harbor Lights (Airdate: 02/08/02)
#14 Love In Vein (Airdate: 03/08/02)
#15 Fuhgeddaboudit (Airdate: 03/15/02)
#16 Exposure (Airdate: 03/22/02)
#17 Hello, Goodbye (Airdate: 04/05/02)
#18 Dawg Day Afternoon (Airdate: 04/12/02)
#19 She Ain't Heavy (Airdate: 04/19/02)
#20 Love Among the Runes (Airdate: 04/26/02)
#21 Freak Nation (Airdate: 05/03/02)
Dark Angel General Cast
Max Guevara/X5-452 played by Jessica Alba
Young Max/X5-452 played by Geneva Locke
Kendra Maibaum played by Jennifer Blanc
Logan Cale aka Eyes Onlyplayed by Michael Weatherly
Sebastian played by Jade C. Bell
Bling played by Peter James Bryant
Det. Matt Sung played by Byron Mann
Asha Barlowe played by Ashley Scott
Annie Fisher played by Kandyse McClure
Dark Angel Appearances on Other Media
1. Book
Dark Angel: After the Dark (2003) This third and last of the DARK ANGEL book wraps up everything that was left unresolved at the end of the television series. The book was written by Max Allan Collins.
2. Video Games
Dark Angel is a video game based on the television series Dark Angel (2000-2002). The game was developed by Radical Entertainment and released in 2002.
Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse is a 2001 fantasy video game, which was diablo-style hack n' slash game by Metro 3D.
3. DVD Release
Dark Angel - Season 1
Dark Angel - Season 2