Nikita

I’m not sure when it happened but, sometime after the 90s when shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena left our screens, television had a lot fewer female action heroines to offer. It’s arguably gotten a lot better since the lull that came directly after those much celebrated series ended, but there’s one show that has flown the flag while, at the same time, making almost zero impact on the minds of most television fans. The CW’s Nikita, which finished its own run a couple of weeks ago, will be remembered by its fans as being one of the bravest, solidly entertaining and ignored shows in recent memory.Nikita Season 1-4 Download.

It was a CW show, which accounts in some part for its lack of a wide audience since, as good as many shows on the network are and have been, the only one to really break into mainstream acceptance has been Arrow, airing after Nikita’s peak. Beginning in the 2010/11 season when the network was still dealing almost exclusively in teen dramas, Nikita was a kind of experiment in which the high school/fantasy formula that had worked so well for The Vampire Diaries was transposed onto a more adult setting. It was a remake of 90s show La Femme Nikita (itself a remake of Luc Besson’s film), but it would strive to do things a little differently.

The series may have shot itself in the foot from the beginning, however, as the marketing for its first season was far from honest or indicative of what the series itself would try to do. Massive billboards of Maggie Q’s semi-naked, gun-toting image were released in the months leading up to its premiere, giving many people the impression that this would yet another remake, with all of the hollow sheen and vapidness that non-fans had come to associate with all CW series.