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The Premise:
Fugitives from His Divine Shadow’s evil justice system, Stanley Tweedle
and Zev Belringer, accidentally steal the LEXX, a sentient insect ship that is
the most destructive weapon in the two universes. Assassin Kai is sent after
them, but after getting his memories back by killing one of His Shadow’s
Divine Predecessors, joins the crew to help find a new home. Background: Created by Paul
Donovan, the series is filmed in Canada, and is a co-production between many
Canadian and European TV companies. First Run: 19th July 1997 Number of Episodes: Four movie-length (two-hour) episodes in Season One, and 20 hour-long episodes in Season Two. Good Guys: Zev Belringer went through part of a love slave operation that gave her fabulous looks, a blue rinse, the libido of a rabbit, and some Cluster Lizard DNA. She later became the red-headed Xev. Stanley Tweedle is the LEXX captain, and a former Class 4 security guard. Kai, last of the Brunnen-G, is a walking corpse reanimated by proto-blood, and a former assassin. 790 is a robot head that adores Xev, hates Stan and spouts appalling poetry about these two subjects, and the LEXX itself is incredibly powerful, but not very bright. Bad Guys: His Divine Shadow, the last surviving insect after the Insect Wars. His essence was sucked out by his chief scientist Mantrid, who went on to start taking apart the Light Universe with his army of robot drone arms. And Isn’t That... I Worship His Shadow has a guest turn from Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Barry Bostwick. Eating Pattern has Rutger Huger slapping on some lippy as Bog. Super Nova features Tim Curry trying to procreate with Stan, and Giga Shadow includes Sci-Fi stalwart Malcolm McDowell as monk Yottskry. Overdone Clichés: Xev and Stan’s libido getting them into trouble becomes the driving force for much of Season Two. Stan blowing up a planet every week gets tiresome, but Mantrid takes over and is rather more thorough about it. The ribbing of hick Americans is also rather unsubtly done on several occasions. Fashion Statements: The wise producers show off as much flesh as possible. Zev wore the low-cut remnants of her wedding dress, while Xev favours a figure-hugging Cluster Lizard number. Stan still wears the same Cluster uniform that he’s been wearing for the past nine years. Kai has hair that looks like an interesting loaf of bread, and Wist’s outfit (Eating Pattern) is certainly more holey-than-thou. Lee Binding Photo © Salter Street Films Read more about your favourite series in Cult Times • Available now, £2.85 ($4.99) Can't find it locally? You can order it here |
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