The most original Space-Opera of all time.... First off let me say this, an American Company needs to gain the rights to Season One. Season one consisted of four 2 hour movies which aired here in the States late night on Showtime. Way back in 1997 one of my friends taped the four movies, at the time I didn't have cable or satellite, and brought them over. The fact that 65% of the show was computer generated was amazing at the time. It was the atitude of the show that got me most. The tongue in cheek humor, the raw kinky sexuality. The show never apologized foir anything. That was great.... The characters.... The underdog loser who gains the key to the most powerful weapon in two universes....the Beautiful Love Slave who cannot find a man to satisfy her....the unstoppable undead assasin who only has enough life left for ten days out of the refridgerator, the wise cracking traitorous robot head with total lust for one of the characters...and Lexx the childlike, after being brain damaged, ship they travelled on..... I miss this show. I had to order the original series one from Canada back in 2000 on DVD, it was region one, but recently heard that it was out of print there, and had never been released stateside in DVD format.... A shame..... I've heard it compared to the more popular Farscape many times, because they both featured a crew of misfits on living ships I supose.... But Lexx beat farscape to screen by several years.... However alot of folks probaly remember Lexx as it was run on Sci-Fi...in the time slot after Farscape about two years later when Sci-Fi started broadcasting seasons 2-4. Anyway if you want to see an original series in the Sci-Fi genre, and want some laughs, and like your humor a bit naughty then this is the show for you. I know it's one of my favorites.
Terrible This is a cross between a horror story and a Science Fiction story. I like both of these types of stories but I don't like this.
I found the story weak both in technical science which it has none and its actual story.
Also it needs more characters, the characters it has are weak.
The acting is okay at best.
For All of The Stanley Tweedles In The Universe Space Travelors like Kia - Zev - Stanley always seem to cross paths of other wanderors and lost souls like me in the universe. Managed to hitch-hike a ride with them on the Lexx from series two through four. Damned incredible journey that makes me regret that I wasn't with them right from the beginning of 'The Dark Zone'. Haven't seen any of series one - the four films. Damned ! Someone out there in the dark zone just has to put together a dvd box set of that session before the end of the world takes us all away from our televisions - annihilates LEXX to obscurity. Let's resurrect Stanley Tweedle for President of the USA with Zev as The First Lady ! Kia as The Secretary of Defense! So freaking pleased that my eyes and deviant imagination found this series on Amazon.com !
Series One - available at Amazon.ca This is a great series. I don't have a lot to add that others haven't already mentioned. I would like to clarify some confusion and difficulty as to how to get the entire first season, the four mini-movies.
They do not all appear to be available from Amazon.com, well, volume 1, 2 and 4 are available, but volume 3, Eating Patterns, is not.
Save yourself the irritation. Just go to Amazon.ca, the canadian version, sign in using your normal name and password and look up Lexx Series One.
You can obtain all four movies with one click, including the difficult to find volume 3, just order: Lexx: Season 1: Ep.1.1-1.4
Hope this saves some people some time.
A Silly but Somewhat Entertaining Show The Lexx universe is a somewhat depressing, Orwellian creation of mindless bureaucracy and an underlying sense of evil. His Divine Shadow, the supreme ruler, exists to rule through order. That makes for a fairly dreary and miserable existence. It is a universe of bread and circuses. There are a few alternatives, however.
There is a parallel shadow world about which little is known except that it is chaotic. There is also an active resistance within the realm of His Divine Shadow. The story begins to come together with the confluence of several events.
A minor bureaucrat faces "reprogramming" or possibly extinction for his minor personal failings. His failure to face his problems leads him to get into deeper trouble.
A frumpy woman makes the disorderly mistake of slugging her fiancé when he is disappointed with her appearance. She is sentenced to a new, very attractive body and life as a sex slave.
A leader of the resistance is caught and about to be sentence to death in an arena. He has a plan of escape that goes slightly off plan when one of his gizmos is unwittingly damaged by the bureaucrat mentioned above. He still manages to wreak some havoc and escape in the confusion. He takes with him these previous two characters.
The last member of a long dead race is revived to track down these fugitives. He is utilized by His Divine Shadow as an assassin. He is really dead but his body and mind are utilized (against his will) by means of advanced technology. He goes after the fleeing escapees but defects. He helps them to capture the Lexx, an immensely powerful ship. Together, they flee into the shadow zone.
The story doesn't hang together too well but it does manage to maintain interest. Partly, this is because of Zev, the very decorative sex slave character. Partly it is because of the hapless bureaucrat who manages to be amusing. Partly it is to see what silliness will occur next. It's certainly not great but I am willing to give it a chance and see what develops.
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