{"id":34836,"date":"2013-02-18T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=34836"},"modified":"2013-01-23T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:55:43","slug":"lost-girl-season-1-dvd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/lost-girl-season-1-dvd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Girl Season 1 DVD review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more you watch of <em>Lost Girl<\/em>\u2019s first season, the more you might feel like you\u2019ve seen it somewhere before.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the show\u2019s mythology \u2013 that a community of mythical beings called Fae has existed unseen in our society for centuries \u2013 is so similar to the back story for <em>Grimm<\/em> that you could be forgiven for feeling slightly suspicious. Yet, this season of <em>Lost Girl<\/em> first aired on Canadian telly a year before NBC launched its fairy tale-inspired procedural.<\/p>\n<p>The similarities between <em>Lost Girl<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/27020\/grimm-season-2-trailer\/\"><em>Grimm<\/em><\/a> would be greater still if the former didn\u2019t feature so much sex and swearing. The heroine, Bo (Anna Silk), is a sexy succubus with a seductive touch and an unfortunate tendency to drain the life out of men she makes love to (unless they are also Fae, in which case the invigorating rumpy-pumpy works both ways).<\/p>\n<p>To stop her\u00a0from feeding on randy humans, Bo relies on her sassy sidekick Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), who has no special powers, but is great at filching wallets and looks good in a wig. These two are hurriedly brought together in the series\u2019 opener, in which they start a sort of two-person\u00a0Fae-Team that offers assorted services to anyone who can\u2019t get help elsewhere. Among those who soon come calling are a flatulent\u00a0will-o\u2019-the-wisp and a batty, middle-aged woman who thinks her cat\u00a0is possessed.<\/p>\n<p>Such silliness might make it\u00a0sound like <em>Lost Girl<\/em> wouldn\u2019t appeal to a mature audience, but it is incidental to meatier season-long arcs about Bo\u2019s mysterious past\u00a0and her refusal to align with either the Light Fae or their dark side.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lost Girl<\/em> works as adult entertainment because it\u2019s serious when it should be. It also has a well-thought out mythology populated by interesting supporting characters that includes detective Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), who answers Bo\u2019s 911 booty calls when she gets injured, and bartender Trick (Richard Howland), who hides a dark secret.<\/p>\n<p>Factor in the episode where Bo is hired for a threesome, and you have a show that may not be the stuff of legend, but is never dull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexy supernatural drama Lost Girl Season 1 is out on DVD from 25 February 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":34838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[1916,2518],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lost-Gril-Season-1-DVD.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}