Cleopatra 2525

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A one-season TV series of 28 or so half-hour episodes (2000-2001). In the year 2525, robots have taken over the surface of the earth, forcing humans underground. Two women warriors (Hel, played by Gina Torres, and Sarge) stumble upon Cleopatra, a woman who had been frozen cryogenically since 2001, and only recently revived. Cleopatra had been a stripper who went in for a boob job.

The three women struggle against the evil robots ("baileys") and their human-disguised cyborgs, as well as bad humans and mutants. They take orders from a disembodied voice ("Voice"), the equivalent of a female Charlie (the voice from Charlie's Angels). They have a faithful servant, Mauser, who is a sexless robot.

gender issues

• powerful woman telepath, Raina, in 1x04

Intro Sequence

Five hundred years into the future

she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.

Mankind has been driven underground.

And Cleopatra is about to discover

there's no place like home.

Song:

In the year 2525

There are women with a will to survive

Fighting for a brand new day

Nothing is gonna get in their way

And in the year 2525

Three women keep hope alive

Joining forces to reclaim the Earth

Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth