Lost Girl Season

Urban dictionary has jumping the shark defined as:

When your favorite show starts to flag and go downhill, as when Fonzie jumped the shark on water skis. We all knew that Happy Days was on its way down then.

When Rudy (Cosby show) hit puberty, and they added that new little girl that was Denise's step-daughter, that show DEFINITELY jumped the shark.

Unfortunately this has happened to one of my favorite shows. Lost Girl. This is a Canadian show that is in the fifth season and is available for watching on SyFy.    The story is about a community of Fey in all of their variations.   In this world, Fey not only exist but thrive.  All of the Fey are born with special characteristics.  For example Bo is a Succubus, Dyson is a Changer and Hale is a Siren.  The end of season 4 brought the death of a popular character and Bo's sidekick, Kenzie.  Kenzie was a the lone human in this non human world.  Since Kenzie was so popular, I knew this could not be the end of her story. 

The beginning of this season was all about saving Kenzie from the grips of the Valkyrie in Valhalla.   Once she was rescued, she then left the show.  WTH?!?!?!?  Kenzie was the lone light in this dark world.  With Kenzie gone, there is no joy and no humor.  Since there is no comedic element in the show without her, they introduced someone new. 

The powers have be decided to introduce Mark, a previously unknown offspring of Dyson.  Mark is a dick.  He is not funny, he is selfish, arrogant and treats people poorly.  How is he supposed to replace Kenzie?  Why are you now in the middle of season 5-the last season-adding a new main-ish character?  I think the show could have taken a more dramatic tone to the season and left this douche out.  Yes, Kenzie would be missed but damn they messed up with Mark.  Seriously this is about as bad as cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch.  Why'd you do it?  Why'd you do it?  I love this show and now with all of the douchiness it is almost hard to watch.  Please get rid of this character and bring back Kenzie!

Lost Girl

First I have to tell you I have a huge crush on Kenzie.  That being said, let me tell you about the show.  Lost Girl is brought to us by The Canadian Television Fund.  This show is set in Canada where a female succubus (BO) does not really understand her powers.  We start in the human world where Bo is trying to survive.  She sees a human being assaulted and rescues her.

BO (Anna Silk) and KENZIE (Ksenia Solo)

The human in question becomes her BFF (Kenzie).  Not long after this incident she finds out she is Fae. Kenzie and Bo rapidly evolve into the dynamic duo decide to become private investigators.  

The Fae people are a vast population of folks who live among the mere humans.  There are dozens of variants of Fae including but not limited to: Succubus, Siren, Shape Shifter, Druid, Valkyrie and dozens more.  There are two political affiliations in which a Fae decides to follow, the Light or the Dark.  As in most things supernatural, the Light is good and the Dark is bad.  There are varying degrees of both of course but this is a general line to follow. With Bo being new to the Fae world, both sides try to recruit her.  Bo who grew up human does not think this is right and refuses to become aligned with either side.  From that moment on, she is known by both sides as the "Unaligned Succubus". 

This show is bad ass I have to say.  I love it.  Every episode you have a new baddie to fight (Light or Dark Fae or something all together different). With that often comes a new kind of Fae which very few people know of.  There are tons of things to learn about this world and all the time Bo and Kenzie ask "What?!?!?" and the bartender of the Dal Riata, Trick, goes to the back of the bar and looks it up in his library.  The Dal Riata is a neutral bar in which both Light and Dark Fae can go and feel safe.  This is a really cool world that mixes with the human world.  There are even Fae cops who work in the human world to help keep Fae crime unnoticed by the humans and to then find what looks like human crime and realize that it is a Fae who is doing it.

The cast is great.  You have Bo played by Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo as Kenzie, Rick Howland as Trick and many other greats.  Aaron Ashmore of Warehouse 13 fame joins in also.  The cast all seems to have a great rapport and this always keeps you on your toes. 

Since Bo is a succubus there is a fair amount of sex that SyFy has to cut out for us Americans, but if you can get your hands on the Canadian version and do not mind a little sex with your supernatural, I HIGHLY recommend this show.  If you mind sex, watch it on SyFy, it is still awesome.  This is fun and entertaining show and I can not wait for season five.

P.S.  Several members of the cast will be attending DragonCon this year.  Aaron Ashmore, Zoie Palmer, Rick Howland and KENZIE a.k.a Ksenia Solo will all be there WOO HOOO I am so going to see them.