In an era of "safe" reboots and predictable franchises, Æon Flux remains a reminder of what happens when creators take massive risks. It was weird, it was uncomfortable, and it was strikingly original. It didn't care if you "got it"—it only cared that you couldn't look away.

In the early 90s, while most animation was playing it safe, arrived like a transmission from a leather-clad, dystopian future. It ignored the rules of storytelling, killed off its protagonist almost every episode, and replaced dialogue with heavy atmosphere and fetishistic detail.

Set in the year 7698, the story centers on the eternal struggle between two neighboring city-states: A chaotic, free-spirited borderland.

A sterile, police-state utopia ruled by the brilliant and obsessed Trevor Goodchild.

Trevor’s desire to control the human soul through science vs. Æon’s desire to destroy any system that limits her.

The surreal world of —originally a series of experimental animated shorts on MTV’s Liquid Television —remains one of the most provocative and visually arresting pieces of science fiction ever created.