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Lexx
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How Lexx actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Lexx reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 61 episodes.

Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
31 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
19974 episodes
7.0IMDbStan, Zev and Kai accidentally steal the Lexx, the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. After successfully fleeing from the Cluster, the main planet of the League of the 20,000 Planets, they are looking for a new home. Kai needs protoblood to live outside of his cryochamber. Looking for protoblood, the Lexx returns to the Cluster to learn that a huge insect survived. This insect had controlled The Divine Order and His Divine Shadow in order to eat all human inhabitants of the 20,000 planets. The insect then begins a metamorphosis into the Gigashadow. Gigashadow produces protoblood. With the help of Zev, Kai manages to fill up his store of protoblood. Kai places the cluster lizard Squish in the brain of the insect and thus is able to destroy it.
Best episode · S01E01 I Worship His Shadow

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
199820 episodes
6.2IMDbThe main conflict of the second season is the fight against Mantrid, the former Bio-Vizier of His Divine Shadow. The crew had inadvertently helped him transfer his mind into a machine in the first episode of the season while accidentally fusing it with a remnant of His Shadow. Mantrid's goal is to transform all matter in the Light Universe into Mantrid Drones. In the meantime the crew keeps getting into difficult situations and is usually rescued by Kai. At the end of the season they destroy Mantrid. Unfortunately, the Light Universe is also destroyed. The crew flees into the Dark Zone.
Best episode · S02E18 Brigadoom

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
200013 episodes
7.0IMDbThe Lexx is running out of food and must fly slowly to conserve energy. 790 computes that it might take thousands of years to reach an inhabited planet. The crew enters cryostasis to survive the voyage. After 4,000 years in cryostasis, they reach the twin planets Fire and Water. The entire third season takes place on these two planets. The crew meets people they knew from the Light Universe. These survivors cannot remember their past in the parallel universe, though their personalities are still the same. Fire is ruled by the charismatic Prince. Water doesn't seem to have a ruler. The inhabitants of both planets live in isolated towns. On Water they live on islands in a huge ocean and on Fire, there are massive towers separated by long stretches of desert.
Best episode · S03E08 The Key

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
200124 episodes
6.4IMDbThe Lexx travels to Earth looking for food. It is located in the very center of the Dark Universe and the crew assumes that it must be a very dangerous place. The crew again meet people they knew from the Light Universe, and from Fire and Water. Only Prince and Priest are able to remember their lives on Fire. The Earth is threatened by a being who resembles Lyekka. The crew finds out that the fake "Lyekka" destroyed all human life on her way through the Dark Zone. Kai decides to destroy the asteroid that is the source of the entity. Prince keeps his promise and restores Kai's mortality.
Best episode · S04E02 Texx Lexx
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S02E18
Brigadoom
As the Lexx approaches the centre of the universe a strange building appears out of nowhere... with the Brunnen-G battle song emanating from within. Going inside, the crew discovers a theatre troupe performing the history of the Brunnen-G. They ask Kai to play his part in the story - the starring role as it turns out.
- Directed by William Fleming
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

S01E01
I Worship His Shadow
On Cluster, the capital of the league of 20 000 planets, a ship with the power to destroy planets lies waiting for it's master - "His Divine Shadow". But the soon to be executed rebel Thodin has his eyes on it too, and mangles the city's computer system while engineering his escape. Using the chaos that erupts, the death sentenced security officer Stanley Tweedle and the escaped "love-slave" Zev evade capture and eventually team up with Thodin... with the undead assassin Kai following, with orders to kill them all.
- Directed by Paul Donovan
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

S02E01
Mantrid
Possessed by remnants of His Shadow, Kai convinces Stanley to return to the ruins of Cluster in the Light universe to search for more protoblood. They find insect larva, but it is dormant and can't produce protoblood. So Kai insists on taking it to Mantrid, an infamous scientist that might be able to revive it.
- Directed by Christoph Schrewe
- Written by Paul Donovan

S02E11
Nook
Xev starts quite a commotion when the Lexx lands on a planet inhabited only an order of monks, none of whom have ever seen a woman before...
- Directed by William Fleming
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Paul Donovan

S01E04
Giga Shadow
Kai is running out of protoblood, and a desperate Zev forces Stan to set course back to the Cluster through the fractal core. When they arrive they find they entire planet barren - everybody killed in "the cleansing", in preparation of the birth of the Gigashadow.
- Directed by Robert Sigl
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

S01E03
Eating Pattern
The Lexx is forced to land on a planet to eat and replenish its energy supply. While they wait, Stanley and Zev go outside to bury Kai, who seems to have run out of the protoblood that kept him functioning. On their way back, Zev insists on investigating a structure. Too late they discover that it is filled with insane people obsessed with getting "clean bodies" to make "pattern."
- Directed by Rainer Matsutani
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S04E24
Yo Way Yo
- Directed by Paul Donovan
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Paul Donovan

S04E23
Lyekka Vs. Japan
- Directed by Christoph Schrewe, Paul Donovan
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield

S04E22
Trip
- Directed by Stephen Manuel
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Paul Green

S04E21
Viva Lexx Vegas
- Directed by Chris Bould
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

S04E20
ApocaLexx Now
- Directed by Paul Donovan
- Written by Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Jeffrey HirschfieldWriter
- Paul GreenWriter
- Lex GigeroffWriter
- Paul DonovanWriter
- Jon SpiraWriter
- Andrew SelzerWriter
Direction
- Chris BouldDirector
- David McLeodDirector
- Rainer MatsutaniDirector
- Robert SiglDirector
- Stephen ManuelDirector
- Stephan WagnerDirector
Cinematography
- Les KrizsanDirector of Photography
- David AlbistonDirector of Photography
- Ian BibbyDirector of Photography
Music
- Marty SimonOriginal Music Composer
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