"Lexx" (1997) TV series 1997-2002

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Creator:

Paul Donovan

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

18 April 1997 (Canada)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Comedy

Tagline:

Sci-Fi with an attitude!

Plot:

A group of desperate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.

Plot Keywords:

Computer Animation | Sexual Overtones | Giant Insect | Man Eating Plant | Black Comedy

Awards:

6 nominations

Cast

Brian Downey	...	Stanley H. Tweedle / ... (60 episodes, 1997-2002)
Michael McManus	...	Kai / ... (60 episodes, 1997-2002)
Xenia Seeberg	...	Xev Bellringer (54 episodes, 1998-2002)
Jeffrey Hirschfield	...	790 / ... (36 episodes, 1997-2002)
Tom Gallant	...	Lexx / ... (34 episodes, 1997-2002)

Also Known As:

"Lexx: The Series"
"Tales from a Parallel Universe" (USA) (first season title)

Runtime:

60 min (65 episodes)

Country:

Canada | Germany | UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16 (television) | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Salter Street Films International

Trivia:

It was revealed on the Season 2 DVD that 790's fragment of human brain came from a woman.

Quotes:

Xev Bellringer: I want to do it.
Kai: Do what?
Xev Bellringer: "It". I want to do "it" with you.
Kai: I suspect you mean sex.
Xev Bellringer: Exactly.
Kai: My sex organ has not functioned for over two thousand years.
Xev Bellringer: My sex organ has NEVER functioned, so we both have a lot of catching up to do!
Kai: Xev, you are clearly desirable and beautiful, but to me, sex is just an intellectual concept.
Xev Bellringer: I don't care if you're dead! I don't care if you can only appreciate this in your mind! I have a hyperactive libido and I need it NOW! I can't do this alone!
Kai: I can't do it at all.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Peyton Doves (2008) (V)

Brilliant!!!

This show is outrageously funny at times, deeply philisophical at others. Defying all attempts to generalise it as one thing or another Lexx flies from one genre to another week by week. The sheer intelligence behind the series cannot be doubted, listening to the three beans (the shows creators & writers) you are left with no doubt of their genius and their desire to show viewers a whole new universe of ideas and concepts. Welcome to the Dark Zone people, if you look to the front and rear you will see there are no exits. The show is just so damn good it's annoying how they manage to keep things going show after show while almost every other series fades and diminishes into cliches after a few weeks. This is TV the way it should be made, has to be made if channel execs want ratings in the future. Lexx has shown what viewers have been missing all these years, robot heads, nymphomaniacs, assassins, cannibals, mass murderers (and that's just the heroes!) The world is divided into two groups of people. Those who love Lexx and those who will come to love Lexx...