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| | Dark Angel | PopMatters Television Review |
 | | Cynical, resentful, and hyper-self-aware, she's the urban rendition of Buffy the vampire slayer, a bit less focused (there are no ancient rules, missions, or Watchers for "transgenics") and less worried about parental disapproval or chem exams (she has neither) than paying off the neighborhood crooked cop, so he'll overlook her squatting in an abandoned building. |
 | | Still, the numbers suggest it was a sound economic decision: Dark Angel averaged 17.4 million viewers and a huge 8.3 rating/22 share in its target demographic, adults 18-34, and a 8.5/30 with teens. |
 | | Already, the show is betraying its tendency to be "regular," though it may well be setting up standard plot-points in order to undermine them. |
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