One can never defend Lexx, only apologize for it. And yet ... Lexx had the boldness to be deeply and unsettlingly weird. At no point does the show try to aww

One can never defend Lexx, only apologize for it. And yet ... Lexx had the boldness to be deeply and unsettlingly weird. At no point does the show try to awww-shucks it away. You just don't get a lot of singing brains in television. And our main characters are largely trying to survive and get laid, often not in that order. Yes, each has to some degree escaped the vast machinery of the cruel civilization which housed them ... and they're not the least bit noble for it.