featuring the episodes Little Blue Planet, Texx Lexx, P4X and Stan Down

Reviewing the fourth season of Lexx on DVD is an interesting challenge, and perhaps a unique one in the history of this site’s DVD review section, and the challenge comes from the fact that, for the most part, I actively dislike the fourth season. As with the third season, there’s quite a bit of it that I hadn’t seen, so perhaps I’ve made a hasty judgement, but the fourth-year segments that I have seen have – with a handful of exceptions – always left a bad taste in my mouth. A very bad taste. So when I popped the first volume of season four into my DVD player, I issued it with a challenge: make me like it. I needed to reacquaint myself with the entire season anyway, for the Lexx LogBook, so I tried to go into with an open mind. (more…)