The best guilty pleasure on TV

The eponymous outsider is Bo, a leather-panted succubus living on what appears to be Queen West. Played by Anna Silk (best known until now as Erica’s same-sex crush on Being Erica and the crazed flight attendant in those NicoDerm ads), the good-hearted bad girl is the oddest of the oddballs, raised by “normals” whose quixotic quest for the truth of her existence puts her in the middle of a brewing battle between Fae clans. And then there’s the sex, which is really what all this mythological body sucking is about. (See: True Blood and Team Edward.) Messing around usually ends badly for Bo, who inadvertently drains the life out of her bed­fellows with a mere French kiss. She’s working on that issue, while pinging between the corners of a lust triangle completed by a shape-shifting homicide cop (Kris Holden-Ried) and a human doctor (Zoie Palmer). There’s a parable in there about the power of a single girl who dares unleash her sexual appetites on the big city or something, but we don’t really care. Not when there’s Pan’s Labyrinth–style effects and delicious wink-wink writing to lend snap to well-trod, bloody terrain.

Lost Girl
Sept. 12. Series premiere on showcase.

(Photograph courtesy of Canwest Broadcasting; Photo-illustration by Wes Duvall)