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.
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