Tuesday 14 April 2020

Lost Girl, Season 1 (2010)



When everyone you have sex with is killed by the experience, it's safest to keep yourself distant from others.  And for the last ten years, that's been Bo Dennis's strategy: no entanglements, always ready to move on.  But when she sees a young grifter named Kenzi about to be sexually assaulted, she steps in and gives the would-be rapist a lethal kiss.

Now Bo finds herself with a fiercely loyal new friend.  Which would be bad enough by itself, given her history, but her act of altruism has also drawn the attention of two police officers who seem a lot more knowledgeable about Bo's strange powers than she is herself.  Through them, Bo finds herself inducted into the world of the 'Fae' a secret community of creatures with unusual powers.  Bo herself is a succubus, able to feed on sexual energy, and if she got the right training, this would not have to be a fatal experience for her partner.

Of course, many offers of help come with strings attached, and this is one of them.  The Fae are split into two factions, who expect (indeed, demand) that she declare allegiance to one side or other other.  Choosing to stay unaligned from either side - as, of course, the fiercely independent Bo decides to do, setting herself up as a Private Investigator working with both factions - makes her a potentially important but very vulnerable player in the Fae community.

Lost Girl is a pretty fun urban fantasy show with a likeable cast.  Anna Silk, playing Bo, has the unfortunate task of being the hero, which means that she doesn't get even half as many great lines as Ksenia Solo's Kenzi, but she certainly brings the chemistry with her love interests.  Speaking of which, it's nice to see a show where the main character's bisexuality is never questioned by anyone else, and where consensual sex is never treated as anything but healthy and normal (cheating is considered bad, but that's because it's breaking a promise / lying, not because it is sex).

If a sexy urban fantasy PI show sounds like your jam, go get some toast and settle in for some Lost Girl.

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