One of the most underrated science fiction TV shows of the late twentieth century is Lexx, a joint Canadian/German/British production about the mostly-criminal crew of a planet-eating spaceship called Lexx who is shaped sort of like a dragonfly and sort of like a dildo (depending on how you look at it). Among the crew is the cluster lizard Xev, who looks and acts like a horny supermodel until you cross her -- and then she'll lizard out and tear you to bits. She was destined to receive "love slave" brainwashing in the first season, but escaped by throwing a robot head into the love programming machine. So Xev is a free lady, but that robot head grew up to be 790, a bodiless plastic helmet who scoots around on a dolly and is pathetically, tragically and whinily in love with Kai, an undead goth assassin. You haven't lived until you've seen 790 weeping loudly when Kai goes out on a mission.
Luckily, all four seasons of Lexx are available on DVD (the first three seasons are in one box set). Sure, some of the episodes are silly and bad, but the best ones are like Barbarella crossed with Kids in the Hall and multiplied by Blake's 7. There's even a whole plotline where the Lexx crew goes to the evillest place in the universe and discovers Earth -- where the US government is being run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, which is in turn being run by Satan. But Satan has a Canadian accent for some reason . . .
Lexx [via Wikipedia]
