Written by Joshua Tyler and Jonathan Klotz | Published
The Sci-Fi Channel of the late '90s was a world of weird, little-known shows that you could only read about in the TV Guide. Of all the weirdness the channel had to offer in those days, nothing was stranger than this Lexis.
The show was aired late at night on the channel for a very good reason. Lexis It was the weirdest, most confusing, sex-obsessed series in the history of television.
This is not a hyperbolic statement. Lexis He lives up to every word of it, and…Now it's time to step back and appreciate this very strange series that broke all the rules of the game Science fiction And a polite society.
The origins of Lexx and its complete madness
Lexis It was a German and Canadian co-production. It's the brainchild of series creator Paul Donovan, who went on to do absolutely nothing in entertainment after that Lexis. before Lexisproduced some mostly ordinary, very small and unseen independent films. There was no indication what kind of madness he was hiding inside his head.
Trying to explain the plot Lexis Impossible, and doing so might leave you bound, as you'll have to explain how the universe is under the control of his divine shadow, an evil, seemingly immortal being. He wants to subjugate the neighboring universe, the Dark Universe as well.
If there is a plot, it revolves around some attempts by the show's main cast to stop his divine shadow. However, they don't always do their best. Sometimes they are very excited. Seriously, this is part of the plot.
It started with four very weird made-for-TV movies, and then it got weirder
Lexis The first season consists of four made-for-TV movies. In the first part, we are introduced to a ragtag crew of misfits and the powerful, brave and heroic heretic revolutionary leader, Thorin, played by Barry Bostwick. Then, the archetypal sci-fi hero, Thöden, is murdered, and we realize that a lazy, traitorous courier named Stanley and an attractive runaway love slave named Zev are our main characters.
Stanley H. Tweddle plays Brian Downey, and Eva Haberman initially plays Zev. It's going to get even weirder when, in the second season of the series, Zev is suddenly played by a completely different actress named Xenia Seberg, with a mysterious sci-fi reason attached. They also started calling her “Xev” which is pronounced like Zev.
Who is your favorite? ZEV or XEV? Let us know in the comments.
Lexx is a show with no real heroes, but it does have a dead body
Stanley and Zev are not your typical sci-fi heroes. In fact, calling them “heroes” is a bit of an exaggeration. They're unable to accomplish much on their own, so the show offers them help in the form of a corpse.
The dead man's name is Kai, and he is played by Michael McManus. Kai is an undead killer. Correction, no actually, he's completely dead,
Kai, the show's villain, betrays his divine shadow when his memories are restored. He ends up on Lexx, the superweapon Spacecraft The show was named after.
The ugliest and stupidest spacecraft in the history of science fiction, and how cool is it?
If Lex isn't the ugliest, stupidest spacecraft in the history of science fiction, I don't know what is. It's not ugly in an endearing way like Firefly's Serenity. Or in a fun way, like the oddly shaped Millennium Falcon.
No, it's just stupid.
bad.
Not good.
Also, I want one.
Lexx is one of the main focuses of the series since it's where most of the episodes take place, and she has the power to destroy anything.
All about Lusticon
There's also a sex-obsessed robot head, voiced by Jeffrey Hirschfeld. And let's not forget the cannibal Gigerota, played by Ellen Dubin. Others come in and out of the cast over the show's four seasons, and are just as weird, goofy, kinky, and sex-obsessed as the main cast.
If this sounds similar to Guardians of the Galaxy or FarscapeIt is, but it's much weirder.
Lexis Full of fan service and innuendo that turns a device called the Lusticon into a plot point. That's right, I said Losticon. To go back to '90s cable, take the series dream on And toss it in the blender with Farscapeand Lexis The result will be.
Stanley Tweddle has no dance moves and XEV has no standards
The best and longest running gags worked into this concept revolve around Stanley trying to communicate with Zev and then later also Xev. Xev doesn't seem to have any standards, so she's usually pretty game for this sort of thing, except that Stanley is the only person in the universe who actively fends her off.
So Stanley fools himself into thinking he is playing the long game. Meanwhile, he follows Zev around the ship, drooling on it, like in this scene The mask Where Jim Carrey sees Cameron Diaz in a red dress, his eyes pop out of his head, and he turns into a cartoon wolf obsessed with women. Imagine this scene repeated over and over again but without the special effects or the part where he shows off his cool dance moves and wins the girl.
Stanley doesn't have great dance moves. In fact, as far as we can tell, Stanley has no positive qualities at all. Stanley looks like the player character from some sort of basic text-based video game from the 90s that has been brought to life and launched into space. He is your main character, people. The guy you're meant to root for and get to know.
Lexx is the David Hasselhoff of sci-fi shows
like Lexis As it progresses, the whole tone of the show changes, and I have to give the production team a lot of credit here. The first and second seasons of the series are wild and full of simple humour, but the third season is much darker and becomes a depressing experience.
Season 4 is set on contemporary Earth, and it's probably safe to assume that was due to budget issues making the show's elaborate green screen sets unaffordable. That's right, even the green screen has become unbearable. This is the type of budget, Lexis He was working on.
Budget cuts occurred though Lexis It was a huge success in Germany, Russia and Eastern Europe. You can say that Lexis he David Hasselhoff From science fiction programmes.
Damn budget Lexis It goes through every possible story arc you can think of over the course of the fourth season, which is about twelve episodes.
How does it compete with respected sci-fi shows?
If you are watching legitimate programs such as Farscape, Babylon 5and Extension, Lexis Can't compare. In the face of these great pillars of televised science fiction, Lexis He is crazy garbage. Maybe that's why it's forgotten today.
To be fair, that was also forgotten at the time.
I can't make excuses for that. Lexis It's nothing but a complete disaster. Sometimes it's a disaster.
But, there's usually something there. A successful joke, a wild sci-fi concept, or even a poignant character moment. Something that makes the show not the worst thing I've ever seen.
He's crazy and he's either terrible or a genius. Or maybe both.
but Lexis Unique.
It's definitely unique.
What is certain is that the scale of His Divine Shadow's ultimate weapon, the Megashadow, is exactly the kind of stupid humor we need more of in our science fiction.
The one thing everyone loves about Lexx:Yu yu
If there's one thing about him Lexisthis is definitely a good thing, without any justification, warning or hesitation: it is the theme song of the series. It was added in season 3 and is one of the show's best decisions.
the Lexis The theme started out as a fight song from Kai's past, Bronin G's fight song. It was used in the first episode of the show. to Lexis In the opening credits, the visuals associated with it still aren't great but the sound of those voices singing their way into battle is so good that it almost doesn't matter.
If you hear it once, you'll find yourself humming it in the car. Listen to Lexx's song in the video below.
Experience Lex's crazy lust, but don't blame us if you break your head
If you want to experience absolute madness and unbridled lust LexisMake sure you are not easily offended. Because breaking every reasonable rule of behavior, television, and life in general, is what happens Lexis He does the best. Don't blame us, when your head breaks too.
You have been warned.
There has never been, and never will be, anything like this Lexis. This is probably why streaming is basically free on services like Amazon. I mean, who's actually going to pay for it?
Except us, that is. We're going to watch it again.
