TV WORTH WATCHING: BEST BESTS MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
... LOST GIRL
Syfy, 10 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Just when you thought TV couldn’t possibly come up with any new angle, much less a new subject, for a genre show, here comes one. This Canadian import stars Anna Silk as Bo, a woman who, like Anna Paquin’s Sookie on HBO’s True Blood, discovers that her unusual powers stem from an unearthly, or at least inhuman, source. Sookie turned out to be a fairy, but Bo is a succubus – in folklore, a female demon who has sexual intercourse with sleeping men. (Well, hey -- it explained wet dreams.) In Lost Girl, she has the power to kill men with her kiss – or, showing a little vampire-like restraint, just to drain them a little. And once she teams up (platonically) with punk street urchin Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), the two of them try to survive, while caught between the good and evil supernatural bloodlines trying to claim Bo as their own. The first two episodes aren’t great – but they’re unusual enough to sample.
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