Dead at 21

Dead at 21. MTV (Music Television), 1994-95.

According to Elayne Rapping, Da21 "is a quite bald copy of the 1960s series The Fugitive.[…] But a murder rap sufficient to fuel a series in the early 1960s is the least of these 1990s, MTV-dreamed-up kids' problems.  Ed, it seems, is one of a series of kids whose greedy parents allowed them to become the victims of a military/scientific/government plot to implant microchips in the brains of gifted newborns so as to monitor—well you get the picture. . . .  The kids, week after week, run from the government agent who must capture and jail them before they find the man who can tell them how to remove the chip before Ed's twenty-first birthday, when it is programmed to kill him" ("Cult TV with a Twist," The Progressive 59.1 [Jan. 1995]: 35). Cf. and contrast CYBORG 2: GLASS SHADOW and the film's crosslisted there. (RDE, 16/01/95)