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Dark Angel - The Complete First Season
Actor: Dark Angel
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $39.98
Release Date: 2003-05-20
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 965 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 6


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
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. Dark Angel was never a perfect show, but at its occasional best it manages to be simultaneously funny and dramatic. --Roz Kaveney

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Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Dark Angel , very satisfied   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I was very satisfied with the first season of dark angel that I purchased. I liked the fact that the whole concept of the genetically generated characters made the possibilities of what they were capable of doing and becoming endless. The acting was good and the Sci-Fi was as advertised. I quickly followed that purchase up with season two. In all that I have seen Jessica Alba in, I liked her in this the most.

2) How Can You Not Like Jessica Alba?   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I think this series will go down in history as a classic. I recommend it to everyone. I enjoy the sexual tension between her and the dude (from NCIS fame) in the wheel chair.

3) What a surprise???   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I am so surprised at this show. I did not know of any series that Michael Weatherly had been on until I accidently came accross this show. I didn't like the character he plays on NCIS until he fell in love because his personality changed for the better. This show has him in an entirely new light for me. I love his character" Logan". He is such a versital actor that changed my mind from not liking him, into wanting to see him in more movies.I bought both seasons of Dark Angels mainly because of him. I don't know Jessica Alba at all. When I saw the last episode I was disappointed because there was not a third one. When they found out it was going to be cancelled I wish they had tied up all the loose ends. Mainly she should have been healed of that virus and did the little city they created survive? I recommed it to everyone that has seem Michael Weatherly on NCIS. He is better in this.

4) Great!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Came on time and in great condition. Loved the series, was bummed when it was canceled. Great show!

5) Some Original Ideas & A Sexy Star Make It Worthwhile.   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
The series is set two decades in the future from 2009-2019, & stars the uniquely beautiful Jessica Alba. One of the refreshing things is that the main character is a brooding beauty who rarely smiles, rather than the stereotypical fake smiling or hysterical heroins that pollute so many series. Jessica Alba is very believable in her torment. Her character sprang from a military genetic experiment where kids were genetically altered to be super-human fighters & they were kept as prisoners in a training school. In their early teens the kids rebel & a few escape. Soon terrorists set off an electro magnetic pulse bomb that wipes out all debt & personal information, this clearly helps her to disappear. Her former captors pursue her obsessively as corruption runs wild in this highly chaotic society. Meanwhile, a rogue underground news network regularly hacks into the government networks to inform the public of various conspiracy theories. Alba's love interest Michael Weatherley comes from this group. Dark Angel mixes several different genre's of storytelling{ part The Fugitive & part Outer Limits} that makes for a somewhat slow, but still entertaining series. In conclusion, the special effects are sometimes stronger than the suspense & plots.