Never heard of this show until I was hired to work on the episode "Texx Lexx" from season 4, filmed in Tucson, Az. I was only supposed to work as a production assistant, but before filming started the producer decided not to fly McManus (Kai) to location (to save money, natch) and hired me to serve as his stand-in. I had to wear the costume and full makeup, and was directed to watch old episodes to study his walk. The shot in this video at 6:50 are my hands and body. McManus in the next shot was added in post. I became obsessed with this strange and horny show, but haven't watched it in a long time. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Hey, giant robots are amazing, I'm glad you really like the movie and yeah, it is very interesting what movie critics hate because it sometimes has nothing to do with what the consumers will enjoy.
Um...it is COMPLETELY explained why Xev is played by a different actor...because the original Zev got unalived. Stanley's "friend", a living plant, took some of Zev's DNA and reanimated her but, because DNA is DNA, she was still Zev but looked different and now she's Xev. Also the LEXX is a beautiful ship, its a dragonfly without its wings. The reason Season 3 was more grown-up was because that's when SciFi channel BOUGHT Lexx and added it to its Farscape/Andromeda line-up. They axed it when they decided to reboot Battlestar Galactica.
@@GiantFreakinRobot This felt like one of those intentional mistakes made to boost engagement. If so, well here I am engaging with a smile :) Great job with the video!
@@GiantFreakinRobot Wellll Guardians was kind of already-there in the comics. I suppose it just needed Farscape's success to prove that a movie would be possible.
@@zimrielGuardians already existed, but it wasn't what we know it as today until the first movie came out, heavily influenced by stuff like Farscape and Firefly with rogueish, morally-ambiguous mercenaries as heroes. The original Guardians were a much more traditionally heroic team, at least by comparison to the modern MCU versions.
How did I know this was going to be Lexx… the only sci fi show with a musical, living chess, a devil reborn as an advisor to the president, a cage fight with a Mummy and Tim Curry as a hologram trying to preserve you in slices… Also Eva Habermann was absolutely gorgeous.
This was such a fevered dream of a show! It's insane... but it's pretty fun and quite watchable. And this video skipped over an important ingredient of the show- The Lexx isn't just a ship... it's an organism. This leads to this wild "Organic aesthetic". It comes through a bit in the clips, but you have to watch the show to really get the full picture. Truly one of a kind!
In the last year before I graduated all my friends left town, and I spent a year of Saturday evenings dirt poor, alone in a pokey little studio apartment, drinking ghastly cheap soft drinks and watching late-night Lexx reruns. It was some of the best fun I had in college. Yo Wey Yo...
Canadian here. My dad used to watch this growing up. I used to hear whatever the hell was going on through my bedroom wall or glimpse it while sneaking out of bed at night. It's never gotten any less strange.
@@GiantFreakinRobot From what I remember it was the censured version as far as I could tell. It was broadcast on a Toronto network television station around 10:00 or 11:00. From what I remember it would always cut away from Xev (blonde/redhead?) just as she was taking off her clothes and/or whatever scandalous situation she was in usually to a reaction shot of the guy in the red overalls (Stan?) making a goofy face.
@@anuket4854In Toronto, at least, it was shown on Citytv back in the day. I remember, leading up to its debut, the fact it was a Canadian sci-fi series was advertised as a selling point. It was certainly a weird tv show but that may have been why I kept on tuning in.
Love Lexx. I even bought the dvd collection back when it came out. I still tell people about how good this show was for its time, and how its still worth watching.
The four movies have been wild and really out of the box. The switch between Eva and Xenia has been explained in the 2nd episode after the 4th movie. I lost track afterwards, i only catched a few of the later episodes and do remember that The Universe Of Light (our universe) was destroyed by a chain of unforunate circumstances and the Lexx escaped into The Dark Zone (the parallel universe). The Lexx isn't ugly, she is a dragonfly without wings and legs. Her main weapon was impressive and the idea of a mostly organic ship that also needs food and has some limitations in control due to her needs and survival instinct was revolutionary. They did a lot with the small amount of ressources they"ve had. So at least the miniseries with the four movies are a guilty pleasure to all fans of chaotic SciFi as Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Andromeda or Farscape. And yes, the battle song of the Brunnen-G sticks in the head for a long while😁.
that The Universe Of Light (our universe) was destroyed by a chain of unforunate circumstances and the Lexx escaped into The Dark Zone (the parallel universe). little correction. the Adventure start at the univers of light. the Cluster goverment main fof the devided Shadow tha dictator of mankind. he Lexx was stolen. the crew we follow end as accident on it and by the end escape inth the univers of darkness they stay there for 2 movies and in the 4 movie return into the univers of light to there defeat the Shadow once and for all. at the Start of season 2 they help a bioengenier to gain immortality to extended the existense of the undeath Kai that need a special Protoblood to exist. Well that Bioengenier Mantrid surfival. controlled a little swarm of Nanobots. His mind was in the process to became immortal mix with a death alien race and the computer of the machine and he became compleet insane. over the Ark of the whole 2 season did he grow and stalk the lexx. it Need until the middel of the season that the Lexx crew even notice that mandrid was still alive. at the last 4 episodes it became clear that M;antrid was winning. Nothing can stop him at that point. so they make it to trick him. curshing nanosworms of the sitze of galactic clusters into the theoretical center of the univers... It worked. a super singularity formed and the univers will collaps back into this one point. lexx trow by a randome whormhole back into the univers of darkness. but the univers of light was trap in a singularity. mandrid ruled over a univers that will collaps into one point...he rule over everything and nothing...
@@benjaminschiel3339It collapsed in to a single black hole since the whole universe was turned into robotic arms. This should count as destroyed😊. And with unfortunate i meant the 'contamination' with some kind of shadow essence, shown by the circular symbol those arms formed each time they have taken over something to transform it into more arms.
This show was the most Canadian thing I'd ever seen to that point. So many Nova Scotia accents, which is appropriate since it was filmed there. You know, the entertainment hub that is Halifax, Nova Scotia... It was weird, but good weird. Inventive weird. Fun weird.
Lexx wasn't that difficult to explain. And technically the 4 four MOVIES were a series called Tales from a Parallel Universe. It became Lexx after Sci Fi (at the time, now Syfy) picked it up. Haberman was the better Xev
I fondly remember discovering this show back during the Saturn logo era Sci-Fi Channel. This and Friday the 13th The Series (the creator of which taught me screenwriting at a community college)
Never forgot about Lexx! Those first 3 seasons are still absolute classics and are on the pantheon of Sci Fi classics! Kai being one of its definitive Leading Men. Also, the original Xev was one of the most gorgeous women to ever live and it’s a shame they had to recast her 😞 Edit: if you’re wanting to see all four season of Lexx in [Current Year], it’s on Salter Street Films’s Internet Archive page! Yep, all 4 Seasons including the “First Season” which is just 4 90 minute films!
I loved LEXX! Thanks for reminding me of how good it is and making me realise how much I still love it! I also didn't realise there's an 'uncensored' version! The version I watched on Channel 5 when they first aired it was wacky enough. I now need to get the series on dvd. By the way, bug-like though it is, I still think the Lexx is beautiful. And also, although both Xevs are gorgeous, Xenia's pout is red-hot! Darome Brunnen G!
This show was awesome. And it still is. This was on Showtime in the U.S. I watched it along with Stargate SG-1. I’ve been rewatching them both on Prime. Along with Chuck, Eureka, and Coupling.
Definitely right about the song. That's what got me, made me sit up late to tape it from channel 5, even tho I had to keep the volume down. I saw an advert for it about a month before it aired and oh boy, I KNEW it was going to be good just from that song. Got goosebumps all the way down my spine to the ends of my toes XD that first time. I STILL get them in my legs when I hear it even now. As to 'who would PAY for it?' *Raises hand. I have all 4 seasons on dvd, because I knew that one day my home recorded VHS tapes would give up the ghost and break lol. Also, the Lexx is beautiful, and the Giga-Shadow is more than huge because it WAS the whole damn Cluster...a giant bug inside a hollowed out planet lol.
I bought the box sets on DVD back in 2018 after getting a recommendation from a work mate, the fact that I had spent the money on it was what got me through watching the whole thing. The recurring question I couldn't help but think episode after episode was how the hell did they get away with just about everything in almost every episode, the kind of things others shows might be able to get away with in once in awhile in a few episodes per season, kept happening in nearly every episode.
"Of all the strangeness on the channel back in those days, nothing was stranger than Lexx." You don't need to qualify it so much. Just saying "Nothing was stranger than Lexx" is an accurate statement to describe the entirety of human history.
Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", where the characters traipse through a great many alternate universes, including some universes resembling popular works of fiction that were out of copywrite certainly gives "Lexx" a run for its money. The sexuality in Heinlein's work, after his editors stopped caring, also gives "Lexx"a run for its money. Now that I think about it, "Lexx" could be an homage to Heinlein.
I need to watch this show again, my brain cells have recovered from the last time I subjected them to Lexx and I need to give yhem another dose of insanity.
The whole point of Lexx was that it didn't take itself seriously and was not meant to. It was a parody on all the bad SF memes that came before. The difference was it wasn't a series of questionable jokes it was one giant joke. The all powerful evil force that runs the universe (Star Wars, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers), the sex crazed people (many many Amazon type planets in a multitude of bad SF cult films).
The battle cry theme is actually an adaptation of the Wicked Witch's Guards-March chant from the Wizard of Oz, heard when Tinman, Lion and Scarecrow sneak into the castle to save Dorothy. I always found that to be wildly appropriate. Canada's only other Science Ficton series up to that point, had been "StarLost", so I've always considered Lexx something truly special. Watch a few episodes of StarLost, and you'll see what makes Lexx a briliant Canada/Germany co-production. And dude!...it's all about the ship. Lexx is beautiful.
A pretty accurate description -- a show that somehow usually managed a reasonable payoff despite always hovering just above "bad". Excepting, of course, for the musical episode, which was simply amazing. (and yes, I did just sing along with the theme song when it played...)
I read the video title and my first thought was "that's going to be about Lexx!" :lol: This was required after-the-pub viewing over here in the UK back in the day :D Oh and the 'original' Zev, Eva Habermann, was a complete smoke-show :) The most mind boggling thing of all about Lexx is that it has Tim Curry, Malcom McDowell and Rutger Hauer in it!
There were other accomplished yet unsung actors too: Nigel Bennett played Prince whom I think really should have gotten into more films and Dieter Laser played Mantrid - Dieter also played the mad doctor in Human Centipede (ugh) and I reckon he's truly mad!
As soon I saw "the most insane TV scifi" I though Lexx! Fck YEAH! But it is also loved. My favorite girl was "Eva Haberman". I had a small crush on hir when I was teen. :) But I also love the Brunnan-G arc, and song is fantastic. Cheers.
I LOVED this show when it first aired. The main problem as far as I could tell was that it aired on channel 5 here in the UK.... you're probably too young to remember that😂
Very late night, on channel 5 lol. Like midnight or so. And if, like me, you just knew it was a one time deal, never going to get re-runs...you had to sit up late to record it on VHS tape to keep those damn adverts out lol. Thankfully, dvds and TH-cam can fix that.
@@silverbane8065 I believe the second (and maybe a third) run(s) were late night but the first run on channel 5 was aired at peak time, around 8 o'clock, I think. Even though it must've been the censored version, it was still crazy wild. My mum just couldn't get it.
@@ianjamieson3985 mine ether. (Mum not getting it) I only ever saw it after the 9 o'clock. Remember having to keep the volume down on the TV (mum in bed) All 4 parts of season one were recorded to vhs like that for me. (I wouldn't have watched earlier anyway lol. Trying to explain an undead guy, robot head in love with a lonely ex wife-bank love slave....nope, not happening XD. Mom had the TV till around 11 or 12 at night most nights anyway)
I discovered Lexx like 15 years ago, and to me it was like a train wreck, it's horrible but you can't stop looking. I remember expecting for Stanley to become a heroic character, and being disappointed over and over again, and that was fkg brilliant in my opinion. Also, I really really hated the hero's haircut, and I still do lol. But I liked the setting, like a very dark version of the universe, like if the Harkkonen had ruled the galaxy, but worse, a complete nightmare. That was pretty cool and well done.
LEXX was advertised as "the first adult SF program" - meaning, of course, that it had sex in it. The plot, as it finally revealed all its secrets, was that humanity "won" a war against an insect empire, although in reality the leader of the bugs infiltrated the human star empire, secretly took control of it, and slowly changed it into a more insect-like culture. Insect-based technology was everywhere, and humanity became more and more regimented. The heroes, well, stumbled into control of the Imperial superweapon, the bug battleship LEXX, and used it to finally save the universe. Then the rest of the show happened. Plus lots of sex and innuendo.
I remember catching random episodes of Lexx very late at night, down under. It was always strange enough to capture my attention whilst channel surfing, (plus y'know, teenage boy at the time.) yet I always came away feeling like I'd gotten a concussion, because I knew less about what was going on than when I started watching. I even bought the first season at some point, and still couldn't make heads nor tails of it. 😳🤯😵 Glorious nonsense, from start to finish! Not always good, but bless 'em for trying something different!!
Lexx was genius, crazy, but genius. Watched the first 4 shows and then tried to binge watch the remaining seasons. I never finished, but now I may try again.
I remember watching Lexx years and years ago. The trash talking computer head, all of it. The show was just weird and twisted enough that you had to come back for the next episode wondering what the heck happened. 😂
I now remember that I watched this and enjoyed its totally off the wall absurdity but I wouldn't have remembered it without this video to remind me! The dead guy character brings "Red Dwarf" to mind.
Holy geez, I so very foggily remember scenes here and there from staring, dazed, at SciFi channel late into the night!!! The “decomposing” hit me instantly! Ha!!! Crazy stuff indeed! The dark turn reminds me a lot of Red Dwarf, another ship-named show, and one I highly recommend. Gets REAL dark in the later seasons, but its film finale is perfectly weird, and instantly Meta. Not NEARLY so much sex in the series, but LOTS of British “rude humour”. 😆
I watched it when the entire series was on TH-cam. Absolutely mind-blowing and unforgettable. I always rewatch the chess match. Genius. I always promote this. I am constantly amazed it got so far along. It ended neatly without leaving us hanging. You left out Bunny.
I still have the entirety of the series on DVD. It sits right next to my Farscape, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica sets. Such a fun series, even if utterly ridiculous.
How could you not mention Dieter Lazer!? A truly unsettling actor. I'll never forget him screaming "I DESTROYED A UNIVERSE!" over and over again as the last bit of matter in the universe was converted into more of his "hammer-arm" von Neumann devices and the whole thing collapsed in on itself. That was truly terrifying. Fortunately, our intrepid crew escaped to the "safety" of the Universe of Darkness 😁
I thoroughly enjoyed Lexx. When they accidentally destroyed a planet behind the space station they were actually aiming at, or Stanley blowing up planets across the galaxy for the sheer fun of it 😂
I doubt you've watched a single episode, since you don't know how to pronounce the character names. Or realize the theme song hasn't changed since season 1 when the showed the Brunen-g attack the devine shadow singing their fight song.
like many countries, Canada has different vibes from the different areas across its wide expanse. Lexx definitely has that East Coast Maritimer feel from its sense of humor, right down to that Brunen G song.
Holy shitt Lexx is exactly what I saw in my head when I read the title, the thumbnail didn't even help, feels great to get it right, I downloaded the series last year, halfway into season 1, and I'm not watching it for the plot. that Janitor is insufferable to watch.
Saw video title, was intrigued. 14 seconds in saw Lexx on screen - inner nerd partying and settling in for intense 'must watch' mode. Honestly I haven't seen it in a while so can't remember many of the details but the memory of weirdness lives in my brain for all eternity - along with the oft hummed Yo Way Yo which by strange coincidence I was singing just yesterday for no reason - spooky foresight perhaps? 👻👻 Eva is my favourite Zev, totally had a crush on her.. 🔥🔥
I need to go back and find this show! I watched it early on, but being in the military throughout it's run my viewing was spotty, and I lost all continuity... I had similar issues watching ST: TNG... Well pretty much any 80s' shows where continuity mattered... I leapt back and forth between the U.S. and West Germany 3 times during that decade...
It was... oddly fascinating. I watched most (if not all of it) through once, and tried a year or two ago to do so again, but it didn't really grab me the second time.
What Lexx lacked in budget was more than made up for with quality writing. It is my all-time favorite sci-fi show. Babylon 5 and the various Star Trek shows looked good, but their characters and plots couldn't hold a candle to Lexx.
Xenia was a better actress, with the red-dyed hair. All things considered, Lexx is mondo bizarro sci-fi, and qualifies as a cult 90s series. It's gotta be a tough act to follow, and named after the dragonfly-shaped spaceship. 😆😆🤣🤣
Never heard of this show until I was hired to work on the episode "Texx Lexx" from season 4, filmed in Tucson, Az. I was only supposed to work as a production assistant, but before filming started the producer decided not to fly McManus (Kai) to location (to save money, natch) and hired me to serve as his stand-in. I had to wear the costume and full makeup, and was directed to watch old episodes to study his walk. The shot in this video at 6:50 are my hands and body. McManus in the next shot was added in post. I became obsessed with this strange and horny show, but haven't watched it in a long time. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Thats amazing!!!! Thank you for telling us you work on the show. We pinned your comment BTW.
Hey, giant robots are amazing, I'm glad you really like the movie and yeah, it is very interesting what movie critics hate because it sometimes has nothing to do with what the consumers will enjoy.
Um...it is COMPLETELY explained why Xev is played by a different actor...because the original Zev got unalived. Stanley's "friend", a living plant, took some of Zev's DNA and reanimated her but, because DNA is DNA, she was still Zev but looked different and now she's Xev. Also the LEXX is a beautiful ship, its a dragonfly without its wings. The reason Season 3 was more grown-up was because that's when SciFi channel BOUGHT Lexx and added it to its Farscape/Andromeda line-up. They axed it when they decided to reboot Battlestar Galactica.
Unalived is fun.
Agreed.
Now that you mention it wasn’t it a whole cocoon rebirth episode for her?
@@GiantFreakinRobot This felt like one of those intentional mistakes made to boost engagement. If so, well here I am engaging with a smile :) Great job with the video!
It wasn't "just" a Dragonfly, if you look at it from the rear of the ship to the front, if you know what I mean. "Giggity..."
LEXX! Like Red Dwarf, they are classics, insane, weird, fantastic!
For SMEGS sake!!
The moment I read the title I said, out loud, "Lexx."
We are friends now.
Me too. Immediately.
Without hesitation
Bingo! And at the time it didn't even seem crazy, it was just the sexier wierder half of the Farscape block on my tivo.
I read the title. "This is going to be Lexx." 😂
I have binged this at least 4 times, if not more. This is the show that paved the way for Farscape.
Which in turn paved the way for Guardians. Marvel should say thanks
@@GiantFreakinRobot Wellll Guardians was kind of already-there in the comics.
I suppose it just needed Farscape's success to prove that a movie would be possible.
@@zimrielGuardians already existed, but it wasn't what we know it as today until the first movie came out, heavily influenced by stuff like Farscape and Firefly with rogueish, morally-ambiguous mercenaries as heroes. The original Guardians were a much more traditionally heroic team, at least by comparison to the modern MCU versions.
How did I know this was going to be Lexx… the only sci fi show with a musical, living chess, a devil reborn as an advisor to the president, a cage fight with a Mummy and Tim Curry as a hologram trying to preserve you in slices… Also Eva Habermann was absolutely gorgeous.
Eva Habermann with cluster lizard dna
This was such a fevered dream of a show! It's insane... but it's pretty fun and quite watchable.
And this video skipped over an important ingredient of the show- The Lexx isn't just a ship... it's an organism. This leads to this wild "Organic aesthetic". It comes through a bit in the clips, but you have to watch the show to really get the full picture. Truly one of a kind!
"Lexx was a joint German and Canadian production" - enough said.
What does that mean?
My thoughts exactly😂😂😂
@@GiantFreakinRobotThat “insane, trippy, sci-fi” is very Canadian; and “insane, and horny” is very German.
@@nvfury13 Citation needed! I can't say I see much insane and horny people around me...
In the last year before I graduated all my friends left town, and I spent a year of Saturday evenings dirt poor, alone in a pokey little studio apartment, drinking ghastly cheap soft drinks and watching late-night Lexx reruns. It was some of the best fun I had in college. Yo Wey Yo...
Hom va ray, yo way rah, jehrum Brunnen-G!
The Pop Shoppe ???
Canadian here. My dad used to watch this growing up. I used to hear whatever the hell was going on through my bedroom wall or glimpse it while sneaking out of bed at night. It's never gotten any less strange.
Did they show the uncensored version in Canada?
Watching it with context won't make it any less strange. If anything, you'll realize just how over the top nuts it's always been.
@@GiantFreakinRobot From what I remember it was the censured version as far as I could tell. It was broadcast on a Toronto network television station around 10:00 or 11:00.
From what I remember it would always cut away from Xev (blonde/redhead?) just as she was taking off her clothes and/or whatever scandalous situation she was in usually to a reaction shot of the guy in the red overalls (Stan?) making a goofy face.
"What is WRONG with German people?" was what I thought, watching this ... thing.
@@anuket4854In Toronto, at least, it was shown on Citytv back in the day. I remember, leading up to its debut, the fact it was a Canadian sci-fi series was advertised as a selling point. It was certainly a weird tv show but that may have been why I kept on tuning in.
Used to watch Lexx when I was young on late night Sci-Fi Channel. I loved it! And Eva was my favorite Zev.
Yo re rah, jarum Brunen G!! The scene where Kai's planet dies is, in my mind, one of the best planet destructions in sci-fi.
It’s the best thing in Lexx.
It was cool at the time but Foundation season 2 topped it.
When I try to explain this show to people I say, "Imagine Farscape, with half the budget, and they spent that budget on hallucinogens and BDSM gear."
Love Lexx. I even bought the dvd collection back when it came out. I still tell people about how good this show was for its time, and how its still worth watching.
I bought that also! My wife isn't interested...
@@crimlarksSteve not too surprised. Lexx was definitely geared more towards a male audience.
I don't have the first 4 movies, but have the rest of the series. I should probably fix that.
@suicidesamuraiz I honestly like the series a lot more than the movies.
I knew this was about Lexx after I read the title. Such a bizarre show.
Same, lol.
I can still sing the brunnan gee song.
Yo Way Yo
I used to sing it while fighting in a medieval group I was in.
The four movies have been wild and really out of the box.
The switch between Eva and Xenia has been explained in the 2nd episode after the 4th movie. I lost track afterwards, i only catched a few of the later episodes and do remember that The Universe Of Light (our universe) was destroyed by a chain of unforunate circumstances and the Lexx escaped into The Dark Zone (the parallel universe).
The Lexx isn't ugly, she is a dragonfly without wings and legs. Her main weapon was impressive and the idea of a mostly organic ship that also needs food and has some limitations in control due to her needs and survival instinct was revolutionary. They did a lot with the small amount of ressources they"ve had. So at least the miniseries with the four movies are a guilty pleasure to all fans of chaotic SciFi as Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Andromeda or Farscape.
And yes, the battle song of the Brunnen-G sticks in the head for a long while😁.
Being a dragonfly without wings doesn’t mean Lexx isn’t ugly though. Bug aesthetic just is not appealing.
@@GiantFreakinRobot Also, it looks like male genitalia more than a wingless bug. By design, I'm sure.
that The Universe Of Light (our universe) was destroyed by a chain of unforunate circumstances and the Lexx escaped into The Dark Zone (the parallel universe).
little correction. the Adventure start at the univers of light. the Cluster goverment main fof the devided Shadow tha dictator of mankind. he Lexx was stolen. the crew we follow end as accident on it and by the end escape inth the univers of darkness they stay there for 2 movies and in the 4 movie return into the univers of light to there defeat the Shadow once and for all.
at the Start of season 2 they help a bioengenier to gain immortality to extended the existense of the undeath Kai that need a special Protoblood to exist. Well that Bioengenier Mantrid surfival. controlled a little swarm of Nanobots. His mind was in the process to became immortal mix with a death alien race and the computer of the machine and he became compleet insane. over the Ark of the whole 2 season did he grow and stalk the lexx. it Need until the middel of the season that the Lexx crew even notice that mandrid was still alive. at the last 4 episodes it became clear that M;antrid was winning. Nothing can stop him at that point.
so they make it to trick him. curshing nanosworms of the sitze of galactic clusters into the theoretical center of the univers...
It worked. a super singularity formed and the univers will collaps back into this one point. lexx trow by a randome whormhole back into the univers of darkness. but the univers of light was trap in a singularity. mandrid ruled over a univers that will collaps into one point...he rule over everything and nothing...
@@benjaminschiel3339It collapsed in to a single black hole since the whole universe was turned into robotic arms. This should count as destroyed😊. And with unfortunate i meant the 'contamination' with some kind of shadow essence, shown by the circular symbol those arms formed each time they have taken over something to transform it into more arms.
Xenia , so hot!
Oh gods. Xev. Built by dark alchemy for teenage boys.
Then what is Zev?
Both versions of Zev/Xev were seriously hot.
No, that's "Weird Science" you're thinking of. Zev/Xev is built by Divine Shadow tech... for adults who are still teenagers.
This show was the most Canadian thing I'd ever seen to that point. So many Nova Scotia accents, which is appropriate since it was filmed there. You know, the entertainment hub that is Halifax, Nova Scotia... It was weird, but good weird. Inventive weird. Fun weird.
But it’s also weirdly the most German thing ever, at the same time
“Looking for some strange? Have some LEXX.” 😍
Lexx wasn't that difficult to explain. And technically the 4 four MOVIES were a series called Tales from a Parallel Universe. It became Lexx after Sci Fi (at the time, now Syfy) picked it up.
Haberman was the better Xev
I fondly remember discovering this show back during the Saturn logo era Sci-Fi Channel. This and Friday the 13th The Series (the creator of which taught me screenwriting at a community college)
Never forgot about Lexx!
Those first 3 seasons are still absolute classics and are on the pantheon of Sci Fi classics! Kai being one of its definitive Leading Men.
Also, the original Xev was one of the most gorgeous women to ever live and it’s a shame they had to recast her 😞
Edit: if you’re wanting to see all four season of Lexx in [Current Year], it’s on Salter Street Films’s Internet Archive page! Yep, all 4 Seasons including the “First Season” which is just 4 90 minute films!
Thanks!
I loved LEXX! Thanks for reminding me of how good it is and making me realise how much I still love it!
I also didn't realise there's an 'uncensored' version! The version I watched on Channel 5 when they first aired it was wacky enough. I now need to get the series on dvd.
By the way, bug-like though it is, I still think the Lexx is beautiful. And also, although both Xevs are gorgeous, Xenia's pout is red-hot! Darome Brunnen G!
"I am the LEXX" ...I was singing the Brunin-Ji battle song two days ago. 😂
This show was awesome. And it still is. This was on Showtime in the U.S. I watched it along with Stargate SG-1. I’ve been rewatching them both on Prime. Along with Chuck, Eureka, and Coupling.
Definitely right about the song.
That's what got me, made me sit up late to tape it from channel 5, even tho I had to keep the volume down.
I saw an advert for it about a month before it aired and oh boy, I KNEW it was going to be good just from that song.
Got goosebumps all the way down my spine to the ends of my toes XD that first time.
I STILL get them in my legs when I hear it even now.
As to 'who would PAY for it?'
*Raises hand.
I have all 4 seasons on dvd, because I knew that one day my home recorded VHS tapes would give up the ghost and break lol.
Also, the Lexx is beautiful, and the Giga-Shadow is more than huge because it WAS the whole damn Cluster...a giant bug inside a hollowed out planet lol.
The hairs raise on the back of my neck every time I hear the song of the Brunnen G! You've inspired me to buy the dvds!
I bought the box sets on DVD back in 2018 after getting a recommendation from a work mate, the fact that I had spent the money on it was what got me through watching the whole thing.
The recurring question I couldn't help but think episode after episode was how the hell did they get away with just about everything in almost every episode, the kind of things others shows might be able to get away with in once in awhile in a few episodes per season, kept happening in nearly every episode.
"Of all the strangeness on the channel back in those days, nothing was stranger than Lexx."
You don't need to qualify it so much. Just saying "Nothing was stranger than Lexx" is an accurate statement to describe the entirety of human history.
I'd be all for just replacing the word "strange" with "Lexx" in the English language, going forward.
Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", where the characters traipse through a great many alternate universes, including some universes resembling popular works of fiction that were out of copywrite certainly gives "Lexx" a run for its money. The sexuality in Heinlein's work, after his editors stopped caring, also gives "Lexx"a run for its money.
Now that I think about it, "Lexx" could be an homage to Heinlein.
I need to watch this show again, my brain cells have recovered from the last time I subjected them to Lexx and I need to give yhem another dose of insanity.
The whole point of Lexx was that it didn't take itself seriously and was not meant to. It was a parody on all the bad SF memes that came before. The difference was it wasn't a series of questionable jokes it was one giant joke. The all powerful evil force that runs the universe (Star Wars, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers), the sex crazed people (many many Amazon type planets in a multitude of bad SF cult films).
Stanley always reminded me of Leisure Suit Larry.😂
That’s exactly who was in my head!
@@GiantFreakinRobot great minds think alike!😅
The battle cry theme is actually an adaptation of the Wicked Witch's Guards-March chant from the Wizard of Oz, heard when Tinman, Lion and Scarecrow sneak into the castle to save Dorothy. I always found that to be wildly appropriate.
Canada's only other Science Ficton series up to that point, had been "StarLost", so I've always considered Lexx something truly special. Watch a few episodes of StarLost, and you'll see what makes Lexx a briliant Canada/Germany co-production.
And dude!...it's all about the ship. Lexx is beautiful.
A pretty accurate description -- a show that somehow usually managed a reasonable payoff despite always hovering just above "bad". Excepting, of course, for the musical episode, which was simply amazing.
(and yes, I did just sing along with the theme song when it played...)
Eva Habermann was definitely my favourite.
Team Eva!
I read the video title and my first thought was "that's going to be about Lexx!" :lol:
This was required after-the-pub viewing over here in the UK back in the day :D
Oh and the 'original' Zev, Eva Habermann, was a complete smoke-show :)
The most mind boggling thing of all about Lexx is that it has Tim Curry, Malcom McDowell and Rutger Hauer in it!
Another for our friendship. Welcome!
There were other accomplished yet unsung actors too: Nigel Bennett played Prince whom I think really should have gotten into more films and Dieter Laser played Mantrid - Dieter also played the mad doctor in Human Centipede (ugh) and I reckon he's truly mad!
We used to call the show "SEXX".
My fave wacky characters were the Potatoho astronauts.
That planet would have been called _Pärgräv_ in swedish. cheers! / CS
As soon I saw "the most insane TV scifi" I though Lexx! Fck YEAH!
But it is also loved.
My favorite girl was "Eva Haberman". I had a small crush on hir when I was teen. :)
But I also love the Brunnan-G arc, and song is fantastic.
Cheers.
I never forgot this show. I was a night owl as a teenager and watched this whenever it was on late night sci-fi
I LOVED this show when it first aired. The main problem as far as I could tell was that it aired on channel 5 here in the UK.... you're probably too young to remember that😂
Very late night, on channel 5 lol.
Like midnight or so.
And if, like me, you just knew it was a one time deal, never going to get re-runs...you had to sit up late to record it on VHS tape to keep those damn adverts out lol.
Thankfully, dvds and TH-cam can fix that.
@@silverbane8065 I believe the second (and maybe a third) run(s) were late night but the first run on channel 5 was aired at peak time, around 8 o'clock, I think. Even though it must've been the censored version, it was still crazy wild. My mum just couldn't get it.
@@ianjamieson3985 mine ether. (Mum not getting it)
I only ever saw it after the 9 o'clock.
Remember having to keep the volume down on the TV (mum in bed)
All 4 parts of season one were recorded to vhs like that for me.
(I wouldn't have watched earlier anyway lol. Trying to explain an undead guy, robot head in love with a lonely ex wife-bank love slave....nope, not happening XD. Mom had the TV till around 11 or 12 at night most nights anyway)
I discovered Lexx like 15 years ago, and to me it was like a train wreck, it's horrible but you can't stop looking. I remember expecting for Stanley to become a heroic character, and being disappointed over and over again, and that was fkg brilliant in my opinion. Also, I really really hated the hero's haircut, and I still do lol.
But I liked the setting, like a very dark version of the universe, like if the Harkkonen had ruled the galaxy, but worse, a complete nightmare. That was pretty cool and well done.
I’m glad Stanley never becomes good though. It’s unique
LEXX was advertised as "the first adult SF program" - meaning, of course, that it had sex in it. The plot, as it finally revealed all its secrets, was that humanity "won" a war against an insect empire, although in reality the leader of the bugs infiltrated the human star empire, secretly took control of it, and slowly changed it into a more insect-like culture. Insect-based technology was everywhere, and humanity became more and more regimented. The heroes, well, stumbled into control of the Imperial superweapon, the bug battleship LEXX, and used it to finally save the universe. Then the rest of the show happened. Plus lots of sex and innuendo.
Stanley reminds me of leisure suite Larry 😄😄😆😆🤣🤣😅🤣 what a sleaze
This is one of my favorite sci-fi shows. I always thought the ship was great. It was very creative and perfect for the series.
Got hooked with the intro. A giant, space dragonfly. Had to watch
I remember catching random episodes of Lexx very late at night, down under. It was always strange enough to capture my attention whilst channel surfing, (plus y'know, teenage boy at the time.) yet I always came away feeling like I'd gotten a concussion, because I knew less about what was going on than when I started watching.
I even bought the first season at some point, and still couldn't make heads nor tails of it. 😳🤯😵
Glorious nonsense, from start to finish! Not always good, but bless 'em for trying something different!!
this was actually streaming on Amazon. the first season is four movies. the scifi showing cut out content for American tv broadcast
This is my favourite sci-fi but never met anyone who watched it.
We were huge fans!! Loved it!!
Lexx was genius, crazy, but genius. Watched the first 4 shows and then tried to binge watch the remaining seasons. I never finished, but now I may try again.
That unlocked a few memories...
Good I hope?
My fave TV sci fi of the last few decades. I liked the way they incorporated the absurdity that underpins life.
I remember watching Lexx years and years ago. The trash talking computer head, all of it. The show was just weird and twisted enough that you had to come back for the next episode wondering what the heck happened. 😂
A friend of mine did the digital animation work on this show.
I now remember that I watched this and enjoyed its totally off the wall absurdity but I wouldn't have remembered it without this video to remind me! The dead guy character brings "Red Dwarf" to mind.
I feel like I had run across Lexx at some point, but didn't think it was worth noting. I definitely remember Tim Curry.
Holy geez, I so very foggily remember scenes here and there from staring, dazed, at SciFi channel late into the night!!! The “decomposing” hit me instantly! Ha!!! Crazy stuff indeed!
The dark turn reminds me a lot of Red Dwarf, another ship-named show, and one I highly recommend. Gets REAL dark in the later seasons, but its film finale is perfectly weird, and instantly Meta. Not NEARLY so much sex in the series, but LOTS of British “rude humour”. 😆
I watched it when the entire series was on TH-cam. Absolutely mind-blowing and unforgettable. I always rewatch the chess match. Genius. I always promote this. I am constantly amazed it got so far along. It ended neatly without leaving us hanging. You left out Bunny.
I still have the entirety of the series on DVD. It sits right next to my Farscape, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica sets. Such a fun series, even if utterly ridiculous.
“I vomit at the thought…” the robot head being grossed out by the idea of being stuck with the main protagonist’s body if I recall.
This was a dark point in my life. The first season I watched because it was different. I felt like I deserved a medal for enduring the second.
Also... "Brigadoom" is one of my all time favorite musical episodes.
Even if the main leitmotif seems to be from The Little Nash Rambler
How could you not mention Dieter Lazer!? A truly unsettling actor. I'll never forget him screaming "I DESTROYED A UNIVERSE!" over and over again as the last bit of matter in the universe was converted into more of his "hammer-arm" von Neumann devices and the whole thing collapsed in on itself. That was truly terrifying. Fortunately, our intrepid crew escaped to the "safety" of the Universe of Darkness 😁
I have the series CD collection. No I'm not ashamed 😅 lol
LOVE Lexi!! Have it on Physical Medium!!
Lexx is why I got my job as a warrior poet.
I thoroughly enjoyed Lexx. When they accidentally destroyed a planet behind the space station they were actually aiming at, or Stanley blowing up planets across the galaxy for the sheer fun of it 😂
I actually came across this years ago... I agree the Brunnen-G fight song was probably the best part of the show.
Sometimes I find myself wandering around the house humming, " O-O-Oberon happy are we few, Dark Men whose days shall end singing praise to you!"
I own this on DVD! All four seasons.
It's worth it to watch it for Eva Habermann alone. What a goddess!
I doubt you've watched a single episode, since you don't know how to pronounce the character names. Or realize the theme song hasn't changed since season 1 when the showed the Brunen-g attack the devine shadow singing their fight song.
like many countries, Canada has different vibes from the different areas across its wide expanse. Lexx definitely has that East Coast Maritimer feel from its sense of humor, right down to that Brunen G song.
I've always loved Lexx because it's a great mix of comedy and sci-fi just like Red Dwarf.
Lexx was fecking amazing. Time to dig out the boxset methinks...
Is there a blu-ray??
@@GiantFreakinRobot It's just a DVD boxset.
I loved that show. Watched it originally on the Scifi channel and then it was on netflix for a little while.
I remember watching this when it first came out. It was mental. I loved it.
I loved it. Usually after I returned from a night out when I was young. Top show.
I remember trying to understand this show.
Holy shitt Lexx is exactly what I saw in my head when I read the title, the thumbnail didn't even help, feels great to get it right, I downloaded the series last year, halfway into season 1, and I'm not watching it for the plot. that Janitor is insufferable to watch.
Saw video title, was intrigued.
14 seconds in saw Lexx on screen - inner nerd partying and settling in for intense 'must watch' mode.
Honestly I haven't seen it in a while so can't remember many of the details but the memory of weirdness lives in my brain for all eternity - along with the oft hummed Yo Way Yo which by strange coincidence I was singing just yesterday for no reason - spooky foresight perhaps? 👻👻
Eva is my favourite Zev, totally had a crush on her.. 🔥🔥
I need to go back and find this show! I watched it early on, but being in the military throughout it's run my viewing was spotty, and I lost all continuity...
I had similar issues watching ST: TNG... Well pretty much any 80s' shows where continuity mattered... I leapt back and forth between the U.S. and West Germany 3 times during that decade...
The Maxx. Lexx. Red Dwarf.
All part of the reason the earth gets no alien visitors. They know they would just be a disappointment.
I still have the score on CD. The Brunnen-G shanty is very catchy.
Also ... Eva Habermann is Xev. Forever.
I commented before finishing the video ... glad you mentioned the music!
Could never leave out the music. Its amazing
Eva is Zev!
The only thing I tell people is you will either love it or hate it no in-between with LEXX
that ship looks like a damselfly that got in trouble with the FAA
Lexx is 10km long, gives you some idea how big the mega shadow is in the show.
Yes indeed. Lexx is 6 miles long!
Your right I forgot about Lexx, now I want to find it.
It was... oddly fascinating. I watched most (if not all of it) through once, and tried a year or two ago to do so again, but it didn't really grab me the second time.
I have the entire series, minus the 2nd movie from season 1 on dvd. Loved the show when it first came out, and still love it now.
That's awesome.
Zeff 1 to 2 is obviously a forced actress exchange but actually very clearly integrated into the storyline.
You forgot to mention that although The Ship Lexx is weird looking, it's design is based on a dragonfly.
While I actually love LEXX, I think Farscape covered similar territory but superior in every way.
What Lexx lacked in budget was more than made up for with quality writing. It is my all-time favorite sci-fi show. Babylon 5 and the various Star Trek shows looked good, but their characters and plots couldn't hold a candle to Lexx.
Yes, Lexx was nuts. NUTS.
I actually like Lexx as bizarre as it was.
Xenia was a better actress, with the red-dyed hair. All things considered, Lexx is mondo bizarro sci-fi, and qualifies as a cult 90s series. It's gotta be a tough act to follow, and named after the dragonfly-shaped spaceship.
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Lexi was great. One of my most favorite shows
Amazon just recently added Lexx to their available vids.
It is strange when the prophesied hero of the universe has been dead for centuries.