she once was lost, but now she's found
She's the Dexter of the supernatural world. Meet Bo, a succubus and TV's newest supernatural anti-hero.
This Lost Girl, however, is not your ordinary succubus. While a succubus feeds off human energy for survival, Bo only preys on the bad guys - also using her powers to help solve crimes. This, coupled with the fact she was raised by humans, puts her at odds with the life she was born into: the Fae (fairy) world.
You could say a succubus is a natural-born killer or a sexual deviant; their survival depends on sucking the life out of humans, typically during a sexual encounter. Like Dexter, Bo kills out of necessity, but only harms those who have harmed others.
"Bo is very strong and stubborn and that comes from her vulnerability; she's extremely vulnerable," says Anna Silk of her character on the new show Lost Girl, premiering on Showcase Sept. 12.
"She is also naive, because she doesn't understand the Fae world," says the show's star on the phone from Toronto.
The Fae are mythical creatures, the stuff of legend and folklore, who live under the guise of humans while secretly feeding off of them. Raised by humans, Bo didn't realize she was "different" until her first sexual encounter, where she drained the life out of her boyfriend - literally. But rather than succumbing to her fate as one of the Fae, she chose to stay loyal to her human world.
When we first meet Bo, she's working as a hotel bartender. By all outward appearances, she seems normal. Her succubus senses start tingling after noticing one of her customers interacting with a young woman, Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), a street-smart pocket thief. She follows them into an elevator, where she discovers Kenzi drugged and about to be raped. This means feeding time for Bo; she provides the would-be rapist with a gruesome kiss of death, one which a drug-induced Kenzi manages to record on her cellphone.
"She's very loyal and often puts herself at risk," Silk says.
Case in point: Unable to leave Kenzi alone in the elevator, Bo reluctantly brings this kid she doesn't know back to her place for safekeeping.
In the meantime, Bo is once again about to hit the road and packs a few essential items: T-shirts, leather pants, a handful of IDs for her many aliases. She's almost out the door when Kenzi wakes up, checks out the video on her cellphone and tries to run herself. "You kids and your camera phones," quips Bo to herself. Fast-forward to where the two have bonded and formed a private investigation firm - a little Dexter meets X-Files, all the killing, only without the blood and aliens.
"Bo is like a big sister to Kenzi, but Kenzi is actually less trusting and a lot more street-smart than Bo," Silk says.
Hot on her trail is Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), also a Fae disguised as a police detective. Eventually, he joins forces with his succubus counterpart and her human friend to help fight crime.
"Bo does not fall into the politics of the Fae world. She's a rebel," says Silk. The Fae world consists of a Light and a Dark side.
"Light is dark, but Dark is very dark," says Silk, laughing. As a rule, all Fae must choose a side, which Bo refuses to do. It's that strong and rebellious nature of her character that drew Silk to the show, although that wasn't her first reaction upon learning about the show's premise.
"My first reaction (to the script) was, 'Oh my gosh, this is totally written by a guy.' But when I read it, I realized it's a really interesting character and a very strong female (character)," she says.
At first, says Silk, Bo sees her power as terrifying, but she soon realizes it's actually empowering and no longer a "cross on her back."
Supernatural stories are all the rage on the big and small screen, with The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Fringe, and of course, the whole Twilight phenomenon. But Silk says Lost Girl is different; there has yet to be a show about the Fae-succubus world.
"Supernatural shows come and go in terms of popularity and it's hugely popular now, but I like that we're doing something different."
Lost Girl debuts Sept. 12 at 9 ET/PT on Showcase.
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New Fantasy TV show from showcase, it reminds me of Buffy, Xena and of course True Blood. The real star of the show is Kenzi.