# Should I watch Lexx? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608 "2009-07-01T19:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/21 "2009-07-02T05:30:58Z")
If you like weirdness and camp, I highly recommned the last season. It’s hilarious. The crew meets the fairy king, then they move to the American suburbs. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/22 "2009-07-02T08:05:48Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > They may be, but they are innocent when it comes to _Lexx_. It was a Canadian/German production. Canadians are French. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/23 "2009-07-02T10:19:55Z")
Yes. But you have towatch it in the right mood. You should understand that you are not watching it because you are expecting it to be any _good_, but because you derive enjoyment from things like MST3K or trippy sci-fi comic books from the seventies, like _Metal Hurlant_. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/24 "2009-07-02T14:08:32Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Canadians are French. What, all of us? Even the ones who don’t actually speak French (not me, but just saying)? Lexx was great fun when I was an older teen, having a number of ‘so bad it’s good’ moments. Of course, it also had a staggeringly high incidence of ‘so bad it’s bad’ moments. I’ll occasionally still watch an episode to mock it cheerfully and yell “Hey, it’s that guy” at various Canadian actors down on their luck. Your mileage may vary. Should you decide to watch it, I recommend _against_ doing a marathon. That will rapidly turn your brain to cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/25 "2009-07-02T14:48:16Z")
> [@pope\_hentai](#): > > pfft… i thought it was hilarious. lol penises. the space rednecks episode was my favorite. but being a civilized person stuck living in tennesse will do that. I liked it too, but just can’t really say why. I guess it was pretty different from the rather staid shows on at the time in the UK, Star Trek, B5, Stargate. Maybe I just like the crappy universe it’s set in. Kai was interesting enough as such characters go. The show got a lot better when they landed on the dark universe’s Earth (I was surprised to see Hitler’s downfall being presided over by the ex-President of the USA :D) ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/26 "2009-07-02T15:12:53Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Canadians are French. So, Belgians, Swiss and Moroccans are French too? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/27 "2009-07-02T15:19:16Z")
OMG. I LOVED this show and taped every episode. (another reason no one likes me. I look like I should be reading Danielle Steele and watching The Bachelor, when I have zero interest.) Lexx had several seasons and started out as fairly sci-fi. Later it became more of a satire, with the cast moving to the American suburbs and trying to get jobs, driving cars, etc. Hilarious! The very last episode was rather disturbing, though not totally unexpected. Lexx was…different. There were no square-jawed heroes blasting weaponry at pursuing alien ships, there was a WHOLE LOT of weirdness and weird sex (or pursuing sex) going on. There was an episode near the end of the series featuring a threat to earth: CGI carrots that hopped around on their own and attacked humans by jumping up their anal sphincters. Frankly, I found that…different. There were no real heroes. The stories involved cannibalism, castration, sexual frustration, starvation. Also the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, an American puppet President, and deaths of the innocent. It was also a comedy. Zev/Xev was hot enough for any male viewer, Kai was drop dead gorgeous despite his unfortunate hairdo, and Barry Bostwick and Britt Ecklund among others had guest spots. Yeah, I loved Lexx. Its badness was legendary, but it was as far as I know unique and imaginative. The hot air machines over Namibia, the passing of the ‘key’ from person to person, the weird Buddhist chant music… ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/28 "2009-07-02T22:11:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > No, just any nudity, which existed in the original TV movies. > > The rest of the show was aired accurately. Not true, there was nudity in some of the non ShowTime episodes. The DVDs have it. The Sci-FI airings did not. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/29 "2009-07-02T22:45:40Z")
Zev/Xev didn’t actually have much sex. She lusted after Kai, but the dead do not fuck. Even with her hyperactive love-slave libdo she found Stan too repulsive. 790 had no body and his mouth was a video screen. It seems like everytime she found a guy to have sex he’d end up dead before they could do it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/30 "2009-07-03T01:49:18Z")
I should add that Kai is pretty good character, who is rather engaging considering he’s dead. By the way, I suggest watching the musical episode, Brigadoom, which is mostly on Youtube. Here is one song they performed: [Go Beyond](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qelxWMDbYM4&feature=PlayList&p=6E6DA3AECB76D15C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/31 "2009-07-03T02:37:27Z")
Is watching Lexx more like a bad drug experience, or more like the experience of having some sort of delusional mental illness? I never could decide the few times I watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/32 "2009-07-03T03:09:03Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Is watching Lexx more like a bad drug experience, or more like the experience of having some sort of delusional mental illness? I never could decide the few times I watched it. Mental illness, I think. Farscape was more like a bad/good drug experience. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/33 "2009-07-03T16:20:55Z")
I have a canned post saved from a Lexx thread I posted to many years ago while the show was just in its first season: > [@](#): > > I have given this new series my best shot, but I can’t watch it any more. It’s basically The Beverly Hillbillies Go Whorehouse Hopping In The Outer Space Equivalent Of West Virginia. All it’s missing is banjo music. > > Each week, Uncle Jed & Elly May are visited by a wacky bunch of Hatfields or McCoys knockoffs wearing various outfits modeled from the burlap school of fashion design. Lexx, the ship, is a living being, and the inhabitants subsist on its internal excretions (I might be missing some subtle nuances here as I have to walk away from time to time and puke my guts out). > > The resident mechanical entity is a disembodied head with videographic eyes & mouth that has never once offered a shred of technical or even helpful advice. In tonight’s episode, Elly May reclines in a fit of sexual frustration and says to the head “I wish you had a tongue”. > > Meanwhile, Jethro is some kind of alien zombie who once went on a rampage and killed almost everybody on the ship, but in tonight’s episode is kind & sweet and acts as a defense attorney. The character’s actual name is khai, and it can not be mere coincidence that khai means “stinks of urine” in Vietnamese. > > The only good part is when Lexx blows up a planet, and that only takes about six seconds. I am glad to see by the above posts that I was wise not to have invested any more time in this show. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/34 "2009-07-03T16:51:55Z")
Think of _Lexx_ as the Anti-Trek. _Star Wars_ and _Star Trek_ are sci-fi for idealists. _Lexx_ is sci-fi for cynics. In SW and ST, the heroes always win. In _Lexx_, the heroes usually die early in the episode. The survivors are flawed, with ulterior motives and personal agendas. The villains? They may dream of being Darth Vader, but most of them are faceless bureaucrats and schoolyard bullies. The battle between Good and Evil occurs on a very human scale. And the Universe doesn’t care. The bad guys win as often as the good guys, and either way, it is by blind luck more often than skill or courage. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/35 "2009-07-03T22:46:31Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > The battle between Good and Evil occurs on a very human scale. > And the Universe doesn’t care. The bad guys win as often as the good guys, and either way, it is by blind luck more often than skill or courage. The good universe is basically eaten by Von Neumann machines and not saved by some sort of three way time paradox followed by a game of poker. That appealed to me in a way… ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/36 "2009-07-04T01:19:42Z")
Years ago, I got into lexx and really enjoyed it. Granted, I was a recovering trekkie at the time and being very anti-trek really appealed to me. Now I don’t know how well I’d like it on a 2nd viewing. Particulary after having watched Firefly and Battlestar Galatica. The fact they destroyed: The empire(which was evil), the universe, heaven and hell and finally earth, in seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively struck me as rather ballsy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/37 "2009-07-04T01:30:37Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > I have a canned post saved from a Lexx thread I posted to many years ago while the show was just in its first season: > > I am glad to see by the above posts that I was wise not to have invested any more time in this show. Can you link to the thread? I’d be curious to read it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/38 "2009-07-04T02:03:31Z")
[Lexx is idiotic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=21127) [I’ve been watching Lexx](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=34220) Ooold threads. Google found 'em though. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/39 "2009-07-04T02:28:29Z")
I have the entire thing on DVD and love the hell out of it. Make of that what you will. It’s cheesy as hell, though, and campy. You have to like that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/40 "2009-07-04T04:26:11Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I have the entire thing on DVD and love the hell out of it. Make of that what you will. > > It’s cheesy as hell, though, and campy. You have to like that sort of thing. Well, the TV Show planet was one I fondly remember. People who end up there are put through different formulaic shows. If they can play along well enough, they get good ratings and sent to better shows. If they do poorly, they get their heads chopped off on Live TV, kept alive, put in a jar and forced to watch the crappy tv shows forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608.md?page=3)