Whether you were a fan or have never even heard of the show until now and just clicked on this list out of curiosity (read: the cover photo of Jessica Alba), you're likely to find the story behind this series to be quite fascinating. Co-created by James Cameron, it was fairly well-regarded during its first season. The protagonist, Max Guevara, is part of a batch of genetically enhanced super-soldiers who escaped from an evil corporation while they were still children. Like many James Cameron projects, Dark Angel was headed up by a strong female protagonist- in this case, played by Jessica Alba in her breakthrough role- and took place in a post-apocalyptic future with heavy cyberpunk themes.įor a show that was only on the air for two seasons, there is a lot of interesting trivia about the production of Dark Angel, both on and off the screen. Dark Angel was a cyberpunk TV series that ran from 2000 to 2002, and took place in the near-future.
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Perhaps it was a side effect of the future that was teased in movies like Back to the Future II and The Jetsons-which promised flying cars and robot maids and the like by the year 2000- not coming to pass.Īhead of shows like Lost, Firefly, Star Trek: Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: Atlantis, and of course, the beginning of the modern run of Doctor Who, famed movie director James Cameron took his first crack at small-screen fiction when he added Dark Angel to that decade's class of sci-fi television. Not that sci-fi had ever really left the airwaves or wasn't prominent in the 1990s, but that era definitely had a "next generation" feel to it in terms of the genre. Jensen Ackles is outing his horrible interactions with Jessica Alba on the set of her 2000s breakout sci-fi series Dark Angel. The 2000s, fittingly enough, saw something of a renaissance in sci-fi television. Dark Angel is an American cyberpunk television series that premiered on the Fox network on October 3, 2000.