When I heard that Syfy had picked up the first two season of Lost Girl [Mondays, 10/9C], I was tickled pink. This is a series that has a fresh take on the supernatural world of the Fae – and a lead character/Chosen One who could’ve been the villain on any other show.
Bo [Anna Silk] has always been on the run, ever since her first kiss was fatal to the boy. Moving from city to city has become a way of life for her – but she’s barely settled into a new city, and found a job tending bar, before things seem to be falling apart again.
When a would be rapist slips something into a drug intended for Bo, her refusal [bar rules: no drinking on the job] leads him to offer the drink to a cute young thing [Ksenia Solo, Life Unexpected, Black Swan] whom he doesn’t realize has just picked his pocket. Bo sees them leaving, and the girl seeming to slump into near unconsciousness, so she takes off after them and catches up as the guy carries his prize into the elevator.
Bo takes care of the situation by kissing him – with the usual result – but the girl isn’t quite out of it and gets everything on her cell phone. Bo takes her back to her places and dumps her on the couch and learns of the phone video the next morning – at about the same time two detectives, Dyson [Kris Holden-Ried] and Hale [K.C. Collins], are alerted to the body Bo left behind.
Both are a bit more than human and are more than a little ticked at this unsanctioned killing in their bailiwick. Solid police work leads them to Bo, whom they spirit away to deal with. When they learn that she has no clan – and doesn’t even know what she is – things get much stranger, very quickly.
If not for the intervention of Kenzie – the woman Bo saved and clearly of Roma descent – things turn out better than they might have, but Bo finds herself confined to the city and walking a dangerous path.
It’s A Fae Fae Fae World is an action-packed infodump. In the series premiere we learn a lot of stuff – the entire Fae political system; several different types of Fae; Bo’s backstory, and even a bit about Kenzie and Lauren [Zoie Palmer], the human doctor who works for the Light Fae as part of her desire to learn about them. On top of that, there’s enough action to warrant described the series as a fantasy/action series – which is to say, quite a bit of violence. Plus, as you might expect, what with Bo being a succubus, there’s also a bit of sex, as well.
It’s to the credit of writer Michelle Lovretta and director Erik Canuel that It’s A Fae Fae Fae World isn’t a hot mess. Instead, it feels more like a ninety-minute movie judiciously pared down to an hour. Between the action, the exposition and the sex, there’s not a lot of time to really develop the characters outside of a few specific traits [Bo’s tough but not heartless; Kenzie is spunky and street smart; Dyson is efficient and curious, etc.], but the cast has good chemistry and the ep does set the stage for a series that gets better with each episode.
Not too shabby for a show that revolves around a character that would be considered a villain on pretty much every other supernatural series we’ve ever seen.
Well before the end of the first season, Lost Girl becomes a solid, fun supernatural series – good enough that, here in Canada, it’s been renewed for a third season – so, if the series premiere seems like a bit of an information overload, roll with it and stick with it. It’s worth your time.
Final Grade: B-
Photo courtesy of Syfy