DARK ANGEL (Season Two, Discs 1 & 2) -- James Cameron, creator

©2000
studio: 20th Century Fox
dir: David Nutter, Morgan Beggs, Kenneth Billar
cast: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, John Savage, Alimi Ballard, Jennifer Blanc, Richard Gunn, Valarie Rae Miller, J.C. MacKenzie, Jensen Ackles

Set in the future, "Max" is a genetically enhanced human, intended as a model soldier. She, and others of her kind, escaped from the place where they were created, and are now hunted by the autorities.

I wasn't sure if I should bother to include this television series on my video blog, but since I do get these discs from Netflix, I thought maybe I would.

I quite enjoyed the first season of this show quite a bit, but the first couple of episodes of this second season have already left me unhappy at the turn it has taken. The new cast members ("Joshua" the dog boy, "Alec" another mutant soldier, etc) seem to limit the story lines rather than offer new possibilities -- too many cast members mean more stories need to feature them, rather than focusing on the stories that made the series work from the beginning.

None of the episodes have yet felt "good," and a particularly awful episode seemed to be the "halloween" episode, which was quite obviously a dream sequence.

I'll keep the rest of Season Two in my Netflix queue, but this series has(/had) obviously started a down-hill slide.