Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 2

Starring: Forbes March, Victoria Pratt Director: Alan Goluboff, Bill Corcoran, Bruce Pittman, Jonathan Hackett, Oley Sassone, TJ Scott Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 30th December, 2002 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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DVD Extras: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 2 contains the following episodes: The Meaning of Death. A plague that kills mutants forces Adam to work with Mason Eckhart & the invulnerable mercenary Marlowe in the knowledge that any cure he comes up with will lead to a double-cross. Lit Fuse. Brennan is attracted to energy-absorbing Ashley, who is being set up for betrayal by bounty-hunter Cross. When she absorbs Brennan, things get really complicated. In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Jesse's hacker girlfriend Toni is forced by Eckhart to betray Adam's hideout Sanctuary & the computerised journalist Proxy Blue. Can the tables be turned? Crime of the New Century. Youthful mutant firestarter Joshua is kidnapped, rescued & then turned over to the GSA by a renegade FBI agent. Dark Star Rising. The survivors of a commando team have been altered into mutancy by scientists & want vengeance for their dead squad members. Mutant X helps them stop Eckhart getting the secret serum. The DVDs also contain trailers, a feature on the elaborate stunts & interviews with stunt coordinator Paul Rapovski, show runner Howard Chaykin & Victor Webster .

Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state & adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs & a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades & untrustworthy lovers.

Forbes March is a Canadian actor. Although born in Bristol, South West England he was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally a model, he attended the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute on a full scholarship. His first big acting role was winning the part of Scott Chandler on the popular ABC soap opera All My Children in 1999. Head writer Agnes Nixon paired him with new character Becca Tyree ; however the pairing proved lukewarm compaired to an alternative triangle between Becca, Leo duPres & Greenlee Smythe. March exited the show in 2000. He again worked with Abigale Spencer in the independent film Campfire Stories in 2001. Shortly after, he booked the Canadian science fiction series Mutant X, playing Jesse Kilmartin. He remained with this show until it was cancelled in 2004. In late July 2005, he returned to daytime television on All My Childrens sister soap One Life to Live, playing the new character Nash Brennan, currently paired with Tess & alternate personality of Jessica Buchanan.

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