In addition, Max’s best friend and roommate Original Cindy, played by Valarie Rae Miller, was a gay woman of color. (The human beings that is, not their wardrobe.) From Left to Right: Original Cindy, Kendra, and Maxįirst of all, the show featured a Mexican-American lead in Jessica Alba who played a character that was anything but a damsel in distress. At a time where we’re presently trying to tell more inclusive stories and focusing on more diverse representation in movies and TV, Dark Angel’s casting and characterizations actually feel more inline with today’s offerings than that of the early 2000s. Thankfully, it wasn’t all doom and gloom in relation to 2019 though.
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Now I’m not trying to say that Dark Angel was able to predict the future the way The Simpsons have, but I was surprised, or should I say disappointed, by how our present reality so eerily parallels a sci-fi TV series that was purposely set in a screwed up future society. But Dark Angel explicitly stated that their world is one where life-saving prescription drug prices are jacked up for profit, where veterans are unable to receive the help they need, and where journalists are being silenced. Not in any sort of deep or revolutionary way, the show is what it is. That post-“Pulse” setting also allowed the show to explore more timeless themes such as institutional power, corruption, and the difference between the haves and the have nots. Also, why cars look old and why Max works as a full-time bike messenger in the year 2019. In the pilot episode Jessica Alba’s titular character Max explains that terrorists detonated an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), years prior, which explains away the lack of snazzy gadgets and continued use of landlines, pagers, and outdated PCs. I was ready to write off Dark Angel as a fun time capsule of the early 2000s, but as it turns out, not all of it was reminiscent of a Delia’s catalog or a TRL-era music video.ĭark Angel is set in a post-apocalyptic, economically-depressed America, more specifically Seattle. To be honest, barely halfway through the pilot episode I had already gleaned everything I needed to know to write the above paragraph. This appears to be a BMX-themed bar… But It Wasn’t All Bad Not to mention the fact that the show seemed to be overly fascinated with action sports, from BMX to motocross, which made sense during the height of the X Games, but not so much now. Even though Dark Angel was set nineteen years in the future, the fashion, the music, the dialogue, and even the special effects all place it squarely in the beginning of the aughts. This may come as a surprise to no one, but a show that debuted in the year 2000 doesn’t exactly age well. So I unburied the DVDs (the series isn’t streaming anywhere, at least not legally) and popped them in the DVD player to see how their 2019 compares to our present day. So why am I revisiting this show now? Well, as it turns out, Dark Angel was set in the year 2019. The series ran for just two seasons before being cancelled and becoming a footnote in a Family Guy joke. He later clarified that he had seen her in movies beforehand, but just didn't look up her name.įor her part, Alba and her entourage seemed charmed by the experience - although that didn't stop Rodgers from continuing to rag on Gardner.The James Cameron created, Jessica Alba starring TV series, Dark Angel premiered in 2000 on FOX.
To be entirely fair to Gardner, he's only 22 years old, and for much of his life Alba has been more focused on running The Honest Company, an online retailer which she co-founded in 2011, than she has been with acting.
Now you just picking on me at this point.'"
"It was great vibes, but that whole night, he would just keep asking me out of nowhere, 'Do you know who that person is?' and I'm like, 'Bro, that's Amar'e Stoudemire, I know who that is. You know what I mean? It was just great being able to sit over there and I got to meet her and one of her friends who was from Detroit actually. "You know, like, we was getting seated and he was like, 'Oh, we're about to sit by' - what's her name? - 'We're about to sit by Jessica Alba.' I'm like, 'Yeah, I don't know who that is,' and he looked at me like I'm crazy. "He was just picking on me a little bit for being young," Gardner said. and was a little shocked by his response. At some point, Rodgers found out they were going to be sitting near actress Jessica Alba, star of "Dark Angel," "Fantastic Four," "Sin City" and other movies. On Tuesday night, Rodgers and Gardner attended Game 2 of the New York Knicks' series vs. Aaron Rodgers is already razzing his new New York Jets teammate Sauce Gardner.
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