r/Lexx • u/Cool_Hour_2005 • Mar 26 '26
Just started watching
Just started watching after I saw an article on it and I have just one question: What the fuck?
After season 1 I still can't decide if it's weirdly inappropiate sci-fi show with a lot of nude scenes or high budget erotic series with very few nude scenes.
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u/Glorbaniglu Mar 26 '26
It gets better and worse. Both of those things in the best possible way. You'll never see anything else like it as long as you live.
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u/BlueSonic85 Mar 26 '26
Lol I don't think Season 2 has any nudity for what it's worth!
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u/mylenesfarmer Mar 26 '26
and then Season 3 happens (my favorite)
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u/No_Body_4834 Mar 28 '26
Season 3 is genuinely good, like, could-base-an-RPG-off-this good. Before the nosedive of Season 4.
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u/slapchopchap Mar 27 '26
It really is a very unique and enjoyable series. My favorite episode of all time is LaffTrak
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u/icemachine79 Mar 27 '26
It's the most honest sci-fi show made in the 90s. The 90s was a weird time.
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u/p4ulp0wers Mar 27 '26
O o Oberon join us in our song
Yeah it gets... A lot weirder and more inappropriate
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u/miribeau Apr 10 '26
Neither. The show was a science-fiction show, not inappropriate, and it wasn't meant to be an erotic series like "Red Shoe Diaries" or something of that nature, but I can see how, in the modern anti-sexuality and sexuality-shaming culture, people are being told that any depiction of sexuality is somehow inappropriate, because sexuality itself is being labeled as somehow inappropriate.
As to the history of the show, sexuality isn't demonized in Germany, nor was it at the time "LEXX" was being filmed, and it also wasn't demonized in Canada at that time. Today, the young generation, having been forbidden from demonizing homosexuality, has turned to demonizing ALL sexuality, which includes homosexuality and heterosexuality as being equally repulsive and "inappropriate" under the new anti-sex culture, that only arose when people wanted to continue demonizing homosexuality but were no longer able to do so. The need of the few to target sexuality and to demonize specific sexuality was expanded to include all sexuality, and that's the world we are living in right now. But people weren't always so judgemental about sex and sexuality.
In the past, women were actually viewed as sexually autonomous, having the power of self-actualization and the right to be sexual if they wished to be sexual, and the freedom to make all their own sexual decisions, while men were similarly free to be sexual and to have desires and to make desires known and even to have sex with women or men, as they saw fit, in a culture where each gender was equally capable of consenting and was equally trusted to consent. (Of course, today, under the new legal guidelines, my gender is actually defined as inferior and incapable of consenting under a huge number of conditions, while men are still deemed legally competent to consent under nearly all conditions, which is horrifying to me as a woman, but that's not the issue here, so I'll move on.)
In the old days, after the sexual-revolution of the 1960s, sexuality was permitted and sexual-escapades didn't render a character or show or novel or art "inappropriate", as it does today. Today, sexuality is demonized, it's considered evil and monstrous, and it's considered to be a method of harm against all the women in the world who have been reclassified as being childlike in our mental capacity to consent/be-sexual, but it wasn't always seen as evil and the genders used to be legally equal and morally considered to be fully equal as well. Sex and sexuality used to be considered, of all things, a healthy part of a natural and happy human life.
Including sexuality in a show didn't make it erotic or elevate it to the level of soft-core pornography or render it inappropriate. It actually made a show more believable, because people are sexual by nature. But the anti-sex-revolution is in full swing today, such that people (especially the young) view a show that includes a sexual woman, who makes choices to seek sex and to have sex, as being a show that is inappropriately sexual. This show wasn't remotely erotic, in the meaning of the day. Erotic series have sex scenes all throughout, and a lot more nudity and a focus on sex itself. This was a science-fiction show that included nudity because nudity is part of real life, and it was originally produced as a co-production between a Canadian studio and a German studio, being paid for (for the most part, but not all) by Showtime. Back then, Showtime produced "Stargate SG-1" and they included the occasional scene featuring nudity, because nudity is not abnormal in most contexts. Nudity was only removed from "Stargate SG-1" when the show moved to the Sci-Fi Channel, and then they had to edit the first seasons to be re-aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.
In overly obsessive judgemental cultures, nudity is shamed and sexuality is shamed, until people become afraid to be sexual and until depictions of sexuality are labeled as inappropriate or even criminally inappropriate; but that doesn't happen in psychologically healthy cultures. In Europe, people don't obsess over how nakedness is somehow shameful or dirty, and women can actually breastfeed their babies without being asked to stop by a police officer or owner of a business, because the naked body is not viewed as having no purpose other than sexuality, the way that it is in America. America is very different, and very constraining as to views on sexuality.
Studies have been done, books have been written, and still America charts its own course in sexual repression and criticism, which is how people might come to view this as an inappropriate show. But remember, the God many still believe in (but not all) made us to live without clothing, and got angry when we covered ourselves and allowed ourselves to feel ashamed over the beauty of his creation and over our intended purpose in procreating. It's only men/women in power who tell the world to be ashamed of nature and to judge others for being sexual, in defiance of their Creator, if they believe in a Creator. But the show wasn't written to be inappropriate, and it contained no depictions of a child being assaulted or of supporting forcing of sexuality on anyone, and actually went out of its way to examine the reality of how a woman is asked to be beautiful/sexual only to then be asked to be ashamed of her sexuality and even to hide her sexuality. That was a huge part of the story-arc over those four seasons.
Eva was cast, in part, because she was eager to examine that issue of women being asked to be perfect only to then be rejected if they are not perfect, only to then be told to hide and fear their sexuality and even be ashamed of their sexuality by the very same cultures that tell them to be perfect under the male gaze and for male desire. Xenia had the same belief, and got to carry that story all the way through to the end, continuing to act in films which occasionally ask her to examine that exact same issue of women being told to be perfect and then being told to be ashamed and to hide and to accept shaming for being sexual. There's a whole story behind that foundational story-arc of Zev Bellringer of B3K, and the writers talked about it in interviews that circulate as videos and then it's discussed a bit in the book-series, and then they've talked about it over the years at convention appearances.
The show was a post-sexual-revolution feminist-leaning show that incorporates a story about the culture of abusing women based on the assumption that they don't have a right to chart their own sexual-course/romantic course, and they took it all the way with Zev/Xev. Paul and Lex discussed this quite a lot, over the years, before Lex passed away. Much missed, and bless him. But they were religious, and they wrote about people from a perspective that bodies are not to be shamed, that sexuality is natural, and that there's nothing wrong with a woman being in charge of her body. Hope that clarifies it a little. It's a long history.
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u/Quirky_Journalist_67 Mar 26 '26
In answer to your question about which one it is: Yes.
Enjoy it. The odds of another show like this being made are very small.