Sci-Fi’s Raunchiest Series Includes The Most Insane Season Of Television In History

By Jonathan Klotz
| Updated 29 seconds ago

There’s nothing quite like low-budget Canadian sci-fi. Budget constraints don’t hinder the creativity of the cast and crew. Instead, the limitations let them run with whatever wild idea comes to mind, so long as it’s cheap. A sign this has happened is when a sci-fi series suddenly has most of the stories taking place on contemporary Earth. When Lexx Season 4 revealed it was going to do just that, fans wondered what to expect. How could the budget be less? After the oddly dark third season, what would the writers do to top themselves? The answer: Everything they could think of.

Lexx Was Always Weird But Season 4 Is Very Weird

Lexx Season 4 feels like no idea was deemed too dumb to make it to air. Stanley Tweedle is the one who initiates alien first contact, Lexx eats part of the Amazon Rainforest, and Kai learns the Earth is doomed to destroy itself. 790 turns traitor and sides with Prince, reincarnated as a human, who manages to get his lieutenant, Priest, elected as President of the United States. And then there’s what Xev is up to.

After the wild season premiere, Xev winds up in Texas, with predictable results. A local boy becomes obsessed with her, but so do his friends, so he kills them. Xev is in jail, where the Sheriff’s goth daughter, a reincarnated Lomea from back in Season 2, takes a liking to Xev. Naturally, that means Xev is forced to be the star of her internet show. You saw that twist coming, right?

The show does find a groove. It’s insane, but it’s a groove. There’s an episode based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream that involves Stanley realizing what 1500 years of marriage to Oberon would entail, carrot probes overrun the country, the crew decides to live in the suburbs in the most delirious episode of the season that ends in a massive shootout. Oh, and Lexxrunning out of power, eats the country of Holland for fuel. All very normal things.

Dare To Be Different

Even at its very best, Season 2, Lexx was a bizarre show. Season 4 goes so far that some fans bail after the Season 3 finale. It’s understandable. The change of setting, the concept of past villains reincarnating as Humans, 790 going full evil, it feels like a different series. That feeling is on purpose. Lexx never embraced concepts like narrative cohesion. Every season is wildly different from the one that came before. It’s messy, it’s chaotic, and it’s incredibly creative.

You can say a lot about Lexx. It embraces low-brow humor, and there are sex references everywhere, but it’s not boring. The cast and crew take major swings in every episode, including a musical episode, making it the perfect binge for anyone bored with every modern sci-fi series playing it safe. Season 4 is bizarre. It makes very little sense, and it might turn Lexx into your favorite show.

Lexx is now streaming on Tubi.