Lexx

A four-season sci-fi show that was canceled several years ago. And it's flawed, although its mistakes are usually interesting. But the reason to see this show is the interplay between its cast - a sex slave, who wants to fuck the character who's a dead assassin (who cannot reciprocate due to his zombie-like state), the sex-driven head of a robot who wants to fuck the sex slave (who won't return the robot's affections because, well, he's a body-less robot), and the captain of a giant mosquito this crew travels with, that eats planets to feed itself - as the captain tries to fuck the sex slave who finds him pathetic, though he pilots a world-destroying organism.

Yes, that's a lot to absorb, but the show is quite surreal and sexual and satirical - probably three of my favorite S's. Anyone else watch this? I would love a Lexx movie to be made, perhaps by choosing a few of its best elements, from the many directions the show took - but it won't happen. Lexx is truly cult and its audience is scattered across a few nations.

I remember catching so many episodes as a thirteen year-old, hoping to glimpse the sex slave character in the nude, but the episodes would always tease the viewer to the very end; worse, in one scene a clever cut leads one to believe it's her naked breast in the shower you're watching, when suddenly the camera pans out and, oh, you realize this breast is of an extra in the scene. Even this actress who played the sex slave, Xenia Seeberg, as she appeared in the German Playboy, was fairly obscured in the photography...ah, I guess the mystery is what counts.

Anyways, yes! Lexx. Great show.

I must note that, if you're trying to watch this series, the plot is too dense and self-contradictory to make ultimate sense to anyone. The writers were more interested in making up new shite every episode, it seems, instead of directly following any sort of arc, though there is development between the characters, somewhat.

The show is flawed, and it requires a very specific sensibility for someone to follow it - but it's not campy like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean, it's low budget, sci-fi, and sexual, but the creators of Lexx didn't have tongue planted firmly in cheek. Part of its appeal is in its lack of camp. The show embraces bad jokes, terrible special effects, and characters who are lame and generally unlikable. Upon a cursory glimpse, weirdness and cheapness should equal camp, but this isn't Lexx. If you loved camp, not much enjoyment would be found from watching this show anyway - it's unaware of itself, which contradicts the meta~textual sense of campy art; one isn't meant to think HAHAHAHA, it's a phallic mosquito, it's actual surreal imagery. But the show is also a comedy - however, for instance, it isn't comedy like you should think it's ridiculous that they pilot this curiously shaped insect, it's comedy like it's funny that they pilot this ridiculously designed ship. There's a slight difference there, which is vital to understanding this show.

Basically...the show doesn't lean itself on a crutch by saying "Yeah this shit's ridiculous", it just goes with it, and some will continue the journey, others will be too weirded out, unable to suspend their own disbelief...

Lexx is best watched for its characters, which are unlike most I've encountered in fiction.