Season 2 • Episode 13
LatestMendelsohn is asked to help a tribe that thinks he is a legendary wise man.
Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
Practical Effects
That mud-creature suit is commitment to chaos
Stunts
Gena Lee Nolin genuinely doing her own vine-swinging
Costume
The blonde wig in the jungle is iconic wrongness
Creators
Douglas Schwartz, Steven L. Sears
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gena Lee Nolin trained with Cirque du Soleil performers for three months to handle her own stunts, which is more commitment than this show probably deserved.
The series quietly replaced the 1984 film's African setting with a fictional 'Maltaka' to dodge criticism, which worked about as well as you'd expect.
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