Review of Lost Girl

We often wonder if sci-fi and fantasy television can escape the confines of male centered content and appeal to nontraditional audiences. Lost Girl, a contemporary sci-fi fantasy, mixes the classic hero’s journey with tropes of the detective drama. Unlike the stereotypes often associated with the superhero genre, Lost Girl becomes something all its own skirting the boundaries of gender and sexuality to the point of denying their existence. 

Bo (Anna Silk), a beautiful succubus bartender, with an uncontrollable urge to suck the sexual life force from her victims, has been alone and on the run from her accidental killings. She doesn’t know who or what she is, until a chance encounter with a comical runaway Kenzi (Ksenia Solo). After murdering a date-rapist to protect Kenzi, a werewolf cop Dyson(Kris Holden-Reid) is on her trail, and brings Bo into the world of the Fae, a group of supernatural beings with many subspecies. Bo becomes a lone Fae when refusing to join a side of the two warring factions. 

The show changes drastically from the pilot episode, as Bo begins to investigate persons taking on many different roles, because of her unique place as a neutral Fae. Although in text, the story may seem overly mystical, the direction and actors add a sense of realism, and the excellent acting provides credibility. The mystical or myth based entities in the show are also historical concoctions, so not entirely new to the audience or without background.Anna Silk excellently provides drama and comedy, with a uniquely beautiful and seductive physicality. Ksenia Solo provides a personable humor that is equally seductive and sweet. 

Sexuality and gender also come to the forefront, as Bo encounters sexual relationships, with both men and women without shame. Not only does Bo portray female sexuality without shame, but she also gains actual power from such activity. The show opens up the scope of good and evil, declining to place sexual minorities within a moral construct. In fact, Girl seems to ignore all sense of gendered morality, providing a show that seems futuristic in its openness. 

Lost Girl is not the stereotype of male centered fantasy television. As the show continues to create seasons which only add to the strengths already existing, the audiences that are not used to sci-fi or fantasy television would be pleased to see such original, clever, and witty programming. If you are not used to the genre, or perhaps ambivalent, this is an excellent show to dip your feet, and will not disappoint.