Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons. Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara , a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech/military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly try to elude capture by... government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape. The program is set in Seattle, Washington, and was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Lions Gate Studios. In 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year-old female super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara , escapes along with eleven others like herself from a secret government institution, codenamed Manticore, where they were born, raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins.
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