I've been dancing around this show for awhile. Seen the first two films. The first? Very intriguing. The second? Meh.
Do I need to push forward?
Do I need to push forward?
Soooo...Lexx...any opinions?
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I only saw the first episode, and for me (at the time anyway) it just came off as a little too weird.
Well.
The series is very uneven and it's the sort of cult show that mostly appeals to people who'll take weirdness for weirdness sake alone. When it's bad, which is very frequently, it's downright awful, when it's good it can be pretty fun (and occasionaly nicely weird; the musical episode is justly considered a fan favourite; the chess episode is also very memorable).
I liked the second season the best, which has a memorably absurd and ludricously dark overarcing story interlaced with standalones of varying quality. I'd say the second half of that season is the best stretch of the series. Lexx is the kind of show that's willing to use massive planetary death as an upbeat punchline, which sort of meant whatever its many faults I still found that dark streak worth watching. Often it's trying more to be funny than it really is funny, and 790 is always completely worthless; more often than not it's a half-assed sex farce. It's still one of the weirder half-assed sex farces on cable TV, though.
Oh, yes, and a filthy mind is of course mandatory. When your titular ship is basically a giant penis it comes with the territory. I don't recommend it highly, or even at all, but I like being able to say I watched it, whenever I find an excuse to bring that up (never).
The series is very uneven and it's the sort of cult show that mostly appeals to people who'll take weirdness for weirdness sake alone. When it's bad, which is very frequently, it's downright awful, when it's good it can be pretty fun (and occasionaly nicely weird; the musical episode is justly considered a fan favourite; the chess episode is also very memorable).
I liked the second season the best, which has a memorably absurd and ludricously dark overarcing story interlaced with standalones of varying quality. I'd say the second half of that season is the best stretch of the series. Lexx is the kind of show that's willing to use massive planetary death as an upbeat punchline, which sort of meant whatever its many faults I still found that dark streak worth watching. Often it's trying more to be funny than it really is funny, and 790 is always completely worthless; more often than not it's a half-assed sex farce. It's still one of the weirder half-assed sex farces on cable TV, though.
Oh, yes, and a filthy mind is of course mandatory. When your titular ship is basically a giant penis it comes with the territory. I don't recommend it highly, or even at all, but I like being able to say I watched it, whenever I find an excuse to bring that up (never).
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I used to watch this show and actually didn't even know it was a movie first, but I did enjoy it despite how weird it was (oh those canadians), it really wasn't that bad, but yea I think syfy should bring it back in rotation
where the hell has xenia seeberg been at?
where the hell has xenia seeberg been at?
For me, Lexx was fun scifi! here is how it breaks down.
(Aired 1997 - 2002)
Season 1 is essencially 4 - two hour movies
Season 2 is 20 episodes
Season 3 is only 13 episodes (has a season long arc)
Season 4 (ordered by the Scifi channel) is 24 episodes. (Lexx comes to Earth, sort of a season arc)
(Aired 1997 - 2002)
Season 1 is essencially 4 - two hour movies
Season 2 is 20 episodes
Season 3 is only 13 episodes (has a season long arc)
Season 4 (ordered by the Scifi channel) is 24 episodes. (Lexx comes to Earth, sort of a season arc)
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^And very different in tone, too. The original films were a quirky kind of dystopianism; Season 2 is classic Lexx: dark comedy space opera; Season 3 is a more serious, metaphysical arc; Season 4 largely contemporary satire. Lexx fans are often split on which is the 'true' Lexx, but I find there's something to enjoy in all circumstances.
I really liked Lexx when it was first broadcast. I've not seen it since, so I have no idea how well it's aged--particularly since it was really amongst the first 'edgy' television shows I sampled, and there's been quite more and better made since. I will say that the show takes a particular mindset--if you don't dig the first few episodes, you might as well not push on. For my money, I thought Lexx was admirably bizarre, both trashy and courageous--even when the show failed, it failed in new and unusual ways. The characters can be hard to like since they're fairly one-dimensional and not particularly praiseworthy (in a Red Dwarf fashion), but by the end of it I found myself surprisingly attached.
And yes, I do still occasionally catch myself humming the Song of the Brunnen-G.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I really liked Lexx when it was first broadcast. I've not seen it since, so I have no idea how well it's aged--particularly since it was really amongst the first 'edgy' television shows I sampled, and there's been quite more and better made since. I will say that the show takes a particular mindset--if you don't dig the first few episodes, you might as well not push on. For my money, I thought Lexx was admirably bizarre, both trashy and courageous--even when the show failed, it failed in new and unusual ways. The characters can be hard to like since they're fairly one-dimensional and not particularly praiseworthy (in a Red Dwarf fashion), but by the end of it I found myself surprisingly attached.
And yes, I do still occasionally catch myself humming the Song of the Brunnen-G.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Well, compared to Farscape it never handles weirdness as effectively, intelligently or as visually interesting, but it also in fairness predated Farscape. It has a kitschy late 1990s low budget sci-fi charm, though; warts and early CGI and all.
That is unreasonably catchy. It's the Oompa Loompa Song as a patriotic anthem, or something. Marty Simon overall did a pretty good job with the show's score, which may be why they were ultimately willing to rest a whole episode on him (the aforesaid musical).
The weird reverbrating chanting used as the second season's title theme was also nice.
This is a great show. I just got "Season One" (the four movies) on DVD, so now I have the complete series. It's very unique. It's funny and sexy, and psychedelically surreal, but it's also frequently touching. If you watch the entire series through to the end, you'll be singing "Yo Way Yo" with a tear in your eye. 
It's much too weird for my tastes. I like shows that take themselves seriously, and this is definitely not that.
I guess I like it for all the opposite reasons then
I love it despite being completely unable to recommend it to anyone else. I'm happy to admit trying to catch every last episode and enjoying most of it, but wouldn't try to get anyone else to sit down and watch it with me.
It's silly, a bit cheap, bit absurd, but it was especially watchable when all there was on the other channels were episodes of the very straight laced franchises Star Trek and Stargate.
Not a patch on Farscape I guess, but they have quite different charms for me.
Oh quite. I mean,
"I DESTOYED A UNIVERSE! I DESTROYED A UNIVERSE!"
The series does mix up its comedy with melodrama, which sometimes works better than you'd expect.
The second season is definitely the best: some weak episodes (a lot, in fact), but when it works it really works, often when it shouldn't (Brigadoom comes to mind> Mad, but brilliant).
Third run is also pretty good, as it all builds up.
Not keen on the fourth season: as contemporary satire, it's pretty puerile.
Add-on: I did have a copy of the second season's writers' guide at one point - what sticks in the mind is the comment: "Any outline where our characters visit an alien world, help them out, and learn a valuable moral lesson in the process... goes straight in the bin without even a rejection letter."
Third run is also pretty good, as it all builds up.
Not keen on the fourth season: as contemporary satire, it's pretty puerile.
Add-on: I did have a copy of the second season's writers' guide at one point - what sticks in the mind is the comment: "Any outline where our characters visit an alien world, help them out, and learn a valuable moral lesson in the process... goes straight in the bin without even a rejection letter."
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Quite.
Although I did think the Fire/Water stuff was vaguely interesting.
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It was strange for sure, but I couldn't buy a ship shaped like a giant dragon fly.
and I wanted to do the blonde chick(Eva Habermann(season 1–2) ).
and I wanted to do the blonde chick(Eva Habermann(season 1–2) ).
This had to be the most crazy show I've ever watched. With Stanley and the sex starved robot head along with the dead warrior and the sex slave/creature that was one dysfunctional crew.
You know what, Kegg? I can honestly say that the cock n' balls configuration never occured to me until you mentioned it. And I have a filthy mind, too.
I just thought LEXX looked like a wingless dragonfly.
That's the beauty of it - it's both.
I can understand why the world-destroying gun doesn't come out the other end, though, that might be a little much.
LOL
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