Raunchy Urban Fantasy Series Is The Hottest Show You’ve Never Seen Now Streaming For Free
There’s nothing quite like Canadian television. The land of hockey and Rush has given the world countless sci-fi shows, from Stargate SG-1 to Continuum, and somehow turned an urban fantasy series about a succubus into a hit for five seasons. Lost Girl aired on SyFy and immediately filled the gap left behind by Lexx. When the hero of the series is a demon who has to survive on sexual energy, it’s going to be a very horny show.
Supernatural If It Starred A Succubus
Lost Girlflips the script established by Supernatural. Every character is a creature from myth or folklore. Celtic and Germanic myths get the most screen time, with representation from werewolves, gnomes, dwarves, faeries, unicorns, even the Norn, The Morrigan, Behemoth, and Leviathan make appearances by the end of the show’s run. Typically, Bo (Anna Silk) the neutral succubus, finds herself in the middle of a Light Fae/Dark Fae conflict and has to resolve it the best she can with a minimal loss of life.
By her side is Kenzie (Ksenia Solo), the street smart teenage runaway Bo saves from an assault. Kenzie is the human surrogate into the world of the Fae and you’ll soon learn, the best character in the series. Then there’s the werewolf, Dyson (Kris Holden-Reid) and the human medical doctor Lauren (Zoie Palmer), both of whom end up as love interests for Bo. At the same time. She is, remember, a succubus, and to its credit, Lost Girlnever bothers classifying relationships as anything other than existing. It’s a nice change of pace, and for once, a show doesn’t shy away from acknowledging that everybody is hooking up.
Every season of Lost Girl is filled with stand alone episodes and then a season-long arc that comes to a head in time for the finale. Part of the fun is, as with Supernatural, the banter between the team and seeing what new mythological being is going to be the focus of this episode.
The Most Fun Show You’ve Missed
Lost Girlis more fun then you think it would be. For years, it was Showcase’s most successful show, making the jump to SyFy in the states after the first two seasons were hits. The ad campaign made sure to put an emphasis on Anna Silk in varying levels of leather and lace, covering up that it had more in common with Supernatural and Grimm than it did Alan Moore’s wildly controversial graphic novel, Lost Girls. If you know, you know. If you don’t, that was his story about the characters of old fairy tales as adults enjoying explicit, very R-rated adventures.
As with Lexx, Lost Girl gets a ton of mileage by not shying away from sex and acknowledging that it’s a show filled with beautiful people. Bo’s succubus nature doesn’t go away over time, it becomes more prominent and makes holding down a regular relationship rather difficult. Combined with the fun stand alone episodes, deep folklore pulls (the Garuda, Dullahan, Redcap, and Camaztoz show up), and ever-shifting character relationships, Lost Girlis a fun week-long binge streaming for free on The CW app.
