Lost Girl – Fae strippers and slowly advancing plots

Lost Girl deals with hypnotic fae strippers this week, which seems like a pretty good business model until you realize that the strippers have basically been enslaved by the owner of the club. Sounds like a job for Girl Power, so cue Bo and Kenzi, who have been hired by the mother of one of the strippers, who helped to break a murderer out of jail by seducing the cops.

This all sounds a bit silly, but the strippers, we discover, are selkies, which is one of the cooler bits of Scottish folklore the show has dipped into. However, the case of the week was otherwise pretty rote, and the stand-off it led to between Bo and Dyson and Hale didn’t do anything for me. Hey, Bo related to the case because she was helping a mother reunite with a fae daughter who discovered her identity late! Hey, Dyson related in the end because he, too, had had something important taken from him! I just wish the case had been frothier and more fun rather than having all this angsty meaning placed on it. Or if it had to be angsty, the feminist issues involved were more than enough. All in all, the episode was only okay; for one thing, there weren’t nearly enough opportunities for Kenzi to make wisecracks.

The show now definitely seems to be following a USA Network-type episode structure, with mythology at the beginning at end. This time, it’s Bo dealing with the box The Morrigan gave her as well as the intel about Lauren’s girlfriend, Nadia. Lauren eventually tells her the tragic story of Nadia, whom she dragged to The Congo and who fell ill with a mysterious illness that affected only fae, aside from her. Lauren then exchanged her freedom  and medical knowledge for the previous Ash’s resources in order to cure Nadia. She did it for love! We can’t hate on that, I suppose. But the box that contains the key to helping Nadia? Contains some kind of old cool-looking needle. Lauren has no idea, and I am sure it will take another, oh, 15 episodes to figure it out.

Maybe 22 episodes is too long for a Lost Girl season. I can appreciate a case of-the-week structure-the cases can be filler as long as they are fun. Otherwise, I am ready for the Lauren backstory and the imminent war between the Dark and Light to take over. The stuff Trick is investigating about how hostilities are escalating is the most promising plot line going forward, in my opinion. And we need more Trick, on general principles.

Notes and Quotes:

• Breaking news: Syfy just ordered Season 3! Despite my complaints this week, I am happy about this because I think we need women-centric genre stuff on TV, and I enjoy the show most of the time. And the 13-episode thing shows that everyone involved agrees with my assessment, which I wrote before seeing this (I forgot the renewal and Canada had been for 13 eps.)
• How long do we need the same opening bit? I don’t think Bo feels so confused about  her identity anymore.
• The Hand of Glory was also cool, if gross, folklore. That being said, wow, two hanged men on TV in one week?
• We get more on Kenzi’s backstory: she ran away after she told her mom to choose between her and her stepdad. Ouch. At least she gets to break out the Russian again this week.
• Dyson looks a bit disturbed by the very rich and busy Ciara decorating the pad. Whatever.
• Kenzi: “Glove compartments are the boho bags of men: packed with crap and  not nearly the practical carry-all you hoped for when you bought it on sale.”This sounds like a typical Kenzi-ism but actually makes little sense.
• Bo: “Dyson’s new girlfriend is a billionaire and I live in a house with no walls.” Kenzi ignores this, which is the only correct response at this point. At least with Lauren there is a requited, if complicated, thing going on.
• Hale: “Something tells me that ain’t the first time he’s plucked that G-string.”
• Kenzi on bringing Bo tot he strip club: “See, told ya-like Vegas for your crotch.” Aside from this and the quote above, there were not enough wisecracks about stripping! I guess it’s less fun when the strippers are slaves.

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Clacked by Christina Furtado
on Jun 05, 2012 @ 12:04 EST5EDT