
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The second & last series of Dark Angel the inventive James Cameron show about mutants during a future Depression has some real strengths as well as having one or two bad ideas that partly explain its much-regretted cancellation Among the strengths are Alex the thoroughly unreliable mutant charmer whose flirtations with heroine Max complicate her doomed love for Logan the crippled newshound whom she cannot now even touch--she has been infected with a deadly virus tailored specifically to kill him The distrust this sows between the doomed couple does not always avoid soap opera cliches but often produces fine performances especially from Jessica Alba as Max On the down side John Savage&s memorably ambiguous villain Lydeker from Series 1 (who is alternately the mutants& nemesis & their protector) disappears to be replaced by the melodramatically sinister Agent White White appears to be just a shoot-to-kill operative of the state but turns out to be another sort of superhuman a product of an occultist breeding programme going back to the dawn of history After White&s first ruthless killing Max&s reluctance to use deadly force is tested to near implausible limits The show ends with a rousing & moving finale " Freak Nation" in which a theme often neglected in this final year -Max&s relationship with her fellow couriers at Jam Pony- reaches a powerful climax