The FOX network offers its own edgy cyberpunk series with Dark Angel, which tackles the thrilling story of Max Guevara (Jessica Alba), a genetically enhanced super soldier trying to survive in a cruel time.

At the age of nine, she and eleven others escaped from a government institution known as Manticore.  While there, they were created, marked with barcodes and raised as soldiers and assassins until terrorists threatened their existence.  An electromagnetic pulse was released over the United States' atmosphere, destroying its vast majority of electronic systems.  This resulted in a complete wiping out of all electronic data, as well as utter anarchy throughout the country.  Corruption reigned, and crime caused a stricter form of martial control to be enforced.