Consistently hailed by fans as an all-time classic installment of the series, Lafftrak opens this disc with a uniquely Lexxian look at reality TV. Not the most original concept ever committed to film, the crew goes looking for entertainment, only to find that they have become the main attraction for an unknown audience. The innuendo's off the scale with this one, though things get good and wacky when Kai enters the picture. Keep an eye out for writer/producer Lex Giggeroff in a number of bizarre guest roles here.

Stan's Trial revisits Stan's sordid past as a courier for the Austral-B Heretics fighting the forces of His Divine Shadow. It takes the form of a courtroom drama with some unique twists and turns, though the end result is a fairly interesting study of Stan's own morality - and Kai's sense of justice. Love Grows, one of my favorite episodes of the entire series, is a bizarre gender-bending comedy which is, by turns, amusing and disturbing. Check out Xenia Seeburg's husky "Texas" accent in this one, it's good for a laugh.

White Trash, actually one of my least-favorite episodes (hey, when you've lived in Arkansas most of your life, one hillbilly gag pretty much looks like another), has its own strange charm, but I'd rate it as the least-watchable episode on this volume.

As with the rest of the season 2 DVDs, we're treated to yet another slice of the "Rated Lexx" documentary produced by Salter Street Films for the Sci-Fi Channel to bring viewers up to speed with the events of the four TV movies which had aired on Showtime under the alternate title of Tales From A Parallel Universe; Sci-Fi couldn't get the rights to those movies (though it wasn't for a lack of trying), so Rated Lexx strings together a loose narrative to frame a quick rundown of each character's backstory. I can't imagine what it would've been like to get into the show with Rated Lexx as one's only glimpse of the background!

Reviewed by Earl Green
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