Æon Flux

1991
Æon Flux

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Utopia or Deutoronopia Aug 08, 1995

In the episode, Æon has infiltrated Bregna at a time when Trevor Goodchild has accepted power 'temporarily' from the kidnapped chairman Clavius. Trevor quickly enacts a policy of 'complete openness', installing cameras all across Bregna which gives him ultimate control over the people. Gildemere, a Breen soldier loyal to Clavius, is plotting against the new Chairman guessing rightly that Trevor was the mastermind behind the kidnapping. Trevor's reasons for the coup are two-fold; he gains ultimate power in Bregna, and uses Clavius' body to create an isolated place locked with a strange ornate key ...

EP2 Isthmus Crypticus Aug 15, 1995

Trevor has a pair of humanoid birds called Seraph-Trevs held captive, a Male and Female. Trevor is attempting to seduce the Female. Meanwhile, another scientist named Ilbren is planning to have his way with the Female even going as far as trying to employ Æon to capture the Female offering the Male in return. Their meeting is interrupted by a mechanical tentacle which Ilbren fends off with a swarm of robot wasps. The Male Seraph-Trev is securely held in a separate cell and reduced to a state of abject misery by the separation from his mate. Æon plans to free them from Ilbren and Trevor's designs and to do so she employs an old friend of hers, Una, to translate directions to the Birds' chambers. Una is a social misfit like Æon and has apparently fallen in love with the Male Bird ...

EP3 Thanatophobia Aug 22, 1995

The episode starts with a pair of boys play-fighting while another claps to mimic the sound of heavy punches. That boy later flicks a pebble into the path of one of the border turrets activating it and watching the resulting spectacle. Trevor Goodchild is being pressured by the government into making the border more intimidating, despite his desire to make people stay in Bregna through the 'power of ideas'. To this end, he secretly allows Æon to come in and bomb the factory where the parts for the wall are being made. In a parallel and intertwined storyline, two Breen lovers, Onan and Sybil, seek to escape from Bregna into Monica through a gap in the frontier ...

EP4 A Last Time For Everything Aug 29, 1995

As the episode starts, Goodchild has perfected a method of copying humans. Determined to put an end to the operation, Æon and a fellow agent, Scaphandra who is a double-agent for Bregna, cross the border into Bregna. Scaphandra has lost parts of her feet during a previous crossing and has had hands transplanted to replace the missing parts of her feet. As Æon rushes towards Trevor's base of operations, Scaphandra is captured and taken to Trevor Goodchild who takes a sample of her for copying. Æon comes in, frees Scaphandra and tackles Trevor about the ethics and inner purposes of his operation. Deliberately presenting an opportunity for Trevor, Æon allows him to take a sample of her though Æon smashes Scaphandra's sample. After Æon leaves, Trevor copies Æon for himself. It is revealed to be a complex plot by Æon to ...

EP5 The Demiurge Sep 05, 1995

The story starts with a battle between Monican agents and Breen forces. Æon and the Monicans had captured an astral being called the Demiurge which is threatening to dangerously warp people's view of the world and are preparing to launch it into space aboard a rocket. Trevor is determined to stop them believing that the Demiurge will ensure a lasting peace for humanity. The Demiurge instills parts of itself in earthly Avatars: a cat, a bird and a resurrected Monican agent named Nader before the rocket launch is attempted ....

EP6 Reraizure Sep 12, 1995

At the start of the episode Æon is preparing to penetrate a Breen prison disguised as a guard. In the prison, Trevor is keeping compromising photographs of himself and Æon having sex with the price of their return being a Narghile. Narghiles are a mysterious controlled species, apparently immortal, that produce a memory-wiping drug called 'Bliss'. During her escape, Æon runs into a female prisoner called Muriel killing her in self defense after mistaking her for a guard. As Æon escapes, she encounters and leaves with a Monican called Rordy ...

EP7 Chronophasia Sep 19, 1995

This episode begins with Æon lying on a stone slab, waking from a dream where she was screaming. We then flash back to earlier where Æon and Trevor are making their individual ways to a Breen research base researching an ancient virus that apparently causes insanity and formed a basic part of early humanity until humans developed an immunity. Æon is cornered by the Breen soldiers near the base but is sucked down and finds that although the base has been there for under a month, it looks like it has been derelict for centuries. There, Æon finds a young boy who guides her through the base and eventually shows her a vial of virus, the only intact vial out of a set of five. There is also a giant fanged baby, apparently the first test subject for the virus, stalking the caves ....

EP8 Ether Drift Theory Sep 26, 1995

Æon and fellow agent and friend Lindze infiltrate a secret base called the Habitat, a place where mutants and artificial lifeforms live in a stable environment surrounded by a sea of liquid which induces paralysis in any lifeform exposed to it. Lindze and Æon are there both to rescue Lindze's boyfriend and to destroy the facility. Soon after they arrive, Trevor and one of his human experiments arrive, destroying Æon's ship in the process though the experiment is quickly subdued by a swarm of metal-sensitive wasps. It turns out that Lindze's lover, a scientist named Bargeld, is sick from an artificial disease and may have developed a way of changing the composition of the paralyzing fluid around the base ...

EP9 The Purge Oct 03, 1995

The episode opens with Æon chasing Bambara, a vicious man who frequently causes injury or death to those he encounters. Æon, ignoring his victims, pursues him through a train and onto a building site. Bambara escapes Æon killing a construction worker in the process but is captured by Trevor Goodchild. He inserts a strange robot into Bambara through the man's navel and he suddenly loses his darker side, becoming friendly to those around him and quickly befriending an orphan. Trevor says the robot is a 'Custodian', an artificial conscience of his creation which he hopes to implant in all citizens. Æon then meets up with an organization of women who are opposed to Trevor's project who are planning to remove the implanted Custodians and bring the operation to an end. Æon goes after Bambara's Custodian ....

EP10 End Sinister Oct 10, 1995

Trevor has designed a satellite, Aldis B which will help speed up the evolution of humanity but could also kill off half the living population of the Earth. Æon, determined to stop Trevor from using the satellite, steals and buries the remote. Æon, avoiding the search parties, finds a hibernation pod holding a strange alien with removable eyes, psionic abilities. The alien does not breathe, eat or have genitals. The Alien is captured by one of the search parties but saves Æon when one of its captor throws a fire bomb. Trevor examines the Alien and sees signs of exposure to Aldis B. Trevor heads off to find the alien's ship. The Alien escapes and follows him, finding both Trevor and Æon at the ship. Aldis B has killed off everyone on the ship leaving only the alien who had been awaiting rescue in its pod. Æon and Trevor make love in the ship while the Alien watches. The next day, the Alien finds Æon and offers her one of its own eyes but Æon refuses. Æon offers to show the Alien human sexual pleasure ...
7.8| 0h30m| TV-14| en| More Info
Released: 01 September 1991 Ended
Producted By: (Colossal) Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.mtv.com/shows/aeon_flux/series.jhtml
Synopsis

Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. The title character is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state.

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Ole Sandbaek Joergensen Very different from the film with starred a very beautiful Charlize Theron in this tight fitting outfit, in this she is not this super assassin, she is clumsy and always end up in a situation where she is killed more or less. This is a really strange universe, where a lot of people are getting killed, but for a purpose no one has really defined.First season is only on episode, one weird and fast introduction to the universe and the girl, a rather violent and bloody scenery.Second season is a set of 5 small episodes, each 5-6 minutes, here Aeon is clumsy, tot he spy we want her to be, she dies in every small episode and it just becomes more and more abstract and sensual.Third season consist of 10 episode lasting about 22 minutes each, this is somewhat the final form of the series, still more sensual and different then all else, lots of violence, blood, shooting and strange scenarios.
dmri_nz The original animated series is definitely worth purchasing, regardless of how you feel about last years big-screen live action remake. Conceptually, this is the most complex show you'll ever see, it is beautifully drawn and offers insights and critiques into the human condition... And despite all this, it's main character dresses like a dominatrix and kicks the crap out of people. Where's the bad here people? Sometimes the lines between spirituality, science-fiction, and sociology are a little confused at times, but the series creator Peter Chung should be utilized a lot more by Hollywood than he is. Also, he should be closely monitored because someone who can invent and execute a show like this can't be playing with a full deck. Just as well, these people seem to make the best entertainment.
kinky_friedman I can't write too much about this show. It's not normal, but something suggestive of an acid trip. The overall quality of the show is bad, but I think that's the idea. Also, keep in mind I am talking about the shorts. I do not know about the full-length show.Every episode features the heroine, Aeon Flux, a physically fit assassin. She has an objective every episode. Do to the lack of dialog, it's difficult to see what the objective is. But usually involves killing someone or destroying property. By property, I mean destroying a plane or a train. I guess essentially, Aeon is a terrorist.I think the idea is there is a huge corporation that owns the world, a dictatorship if you will. Aeon is the underdog, the rebel, and with her disposable sidekicks she gets information or kills somebody. In this world, they have to check every nook and cranny on the body. That means it could be hidden in a fake tooth, a nipple, you get the idea. This can get sensual. Except they're cartoons. I bet the movie is better for apparent reasons.The coolest part of the show is at the end of every episode, Aeon dies for her cause, only to be reborn again. That sounds cool on the outside, but I think the real uniqueness lies deeper. I think Peter Chung created this concept saying that freedom is not destroyable. Aeon Flux just symbolizes justice. But despite this philosophical point of view, the cartoon is still cool because, well, it's got some cool action scenes.Overall, I give this show a C+.
dla_one Peter Chung is definitely one of the most creative minds in animation today. This is his groundbreaking work he is best known for.Originally a recurring short for MTV's Liquid Television, Aeon Flux combined the flash of the sexy heroine and action movie violence with extremely surreal and bizarre scenarios. MTV later commissioned 10 half-hour episodes. Obviously the more high profile placement of a scheduled program lead to more network restrictions. Not quite the same surreal vision as the original shorts but definitely interesting in themselves.A lot of people saw it as some kind of anime rip off. It's nothing of the sort. While without a doubt drawing influence from Japanese animation the more apparent influences are European fantasy illustrators like moebius.I bought the TV episodes and shorts on a VHS several years ago. I'm not sure if it has made it to DVD. There's a live action movie based on the characters of the animation series coming out this winter. It's extremely doubtful they'll be able to pull off any of the weird stuff. It will probably be just another boringly ordinary Hollywood sci-fi/action movie. One of Peter Chung's ideas with his animation is to create something you can't do in live action.