History YMMV / Lexx

** The episode 'Lyekka', introduces two key characters with Lyekka and the second incarnation of Zev. The hallucination sequences where Lyekka eats the Eagle 5 crew are either brilliantly surreal or just a bore to get through until the key conclusion. The end scene with top less Xev covered with protein juice recieved some criticism for being grautious.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 was very, very poorly recieved by most fans, who see the overemphasis on crude comedy, lack of effort put into the writing, {{Flanderization}}, and treatment of Americans a massive letdown compared to the previous seasons. Season 3 is also disliked by some for its focus on a single planet, being mostly fantasy instead of SpaceOpera, and for [[{{Retcon}} retconning]] a lot of the worldbuilding regarding the Time Prophet and the fate of souls in the first two seasons. It's also hated for the fact that it brought Earth into the formula. Part of the lure of the series had been, before season 4, that it never addressed Earth as a thing that existed, setting it apart from a lot of other Sci-Fi.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Kai's living reincarnation in season four is an actor/performance artist whose own interpretation of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] Henry V has to be seen to be believed, falling somewhere between preciously pretentious and "holy shit, did he really just do that?"

* HoYay
** [[JustForPun Oh, Hoom Va Ray...]]
** Brother Trager falls in love with Stan in "Nook". It is completely one-sided on Trager's part, and Stan comes across as a tad homophobic in response. He does his best to let Trager down as gently as possible, however, and at one point [[IfItsYouItsOkay genuinely considers making an exception for him]].
** Another one-sided, but much more twisted, example occurs between Mantrid and [[TheIgor his deranged assistant]], Vigl.
--> '''Vigl:''' Mantrid, I cannot live without you.
--> '''Mantrid:''' You're being sentimental, my friend.
--> '''Vigl:''' Mantrid, ''please!''
--> '''Mantrid:''' Viggo - I like you. I've enjoyed some of the time I've spent with you. ''(coldly)'' But I don't love you. [[MisanthropeSupreme I don't love anyone]].
** Homoerotic subtext, sometimes bordering on text, seems to go with the territory for leaders on Fire: See Prince ([[spoiler: while posing as Kai]]) snuggling up to Fifi and whispering in his ear, Duke kissing Fifi's forehead, Prince's tendency to invade the personal space of both men and women, etc.

* LesYay: Bunny obviously enjoys it when Xev kisses her on a dare, and talks about Xev's kissing skills in a later scene. [[spoiler: In "Dutch Treat," while we don't see the acts involved, they do ''something'' that causes enough sexual ecstasy to release the Key from Bunny.]]

* HollywoodDateless: Several plots hinge on Stan's desperation for sex. The problem is, for an average-looking, broke, commitment-phobic older man who usually reacts with disinterest if not disgust to any woman not young enough to be his daughter, he's pretty successful: He hooks up with Sissy in "White Trash," a whole bevy of ladies in "Boomtown," and a beautiful college student in "Prime Ridge" (as well as her mother, the only age-appropriate woman he ever deigns to pursue).

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Several, even taking into account the show's general style. The usual reaction to a BLAM is the likely intention, too.

* CompleteMonster: [[DarkIsEvil His Divine Shadow]] is the one survivor of the Insect Civilization possessing human bodies, and starts the series by annihilating the Brunnen-G species and taking over the Light Universe. Running a nightmarish regime where executions and harvesting of people for their meat is commonplace, His Divine Shadow commissions the creation of the Lexx, a planet destroying superweapon with intent to annihilate everything outside of his domain. Upon his seeming death, His Shadow initiates the Cleansing where [[OmnicidalManiac every living being in his domain is killed]] and their meat sent to feed his true form, [[OneWingedAngel Giga Shadow]]. Returning to life, His Divine Shadow proclaims he will [[KillAllHumans annihilate humanity]] and create a new insect empire, obsessed with his own glory and magnificence.

* GrowingTheBeard: Xenia Seeberg's performance is pretty wooden at first, but she improves a lot by the time season 3 rolls around.

* {{Narm}}: Sometimes when the German actors and actresses get emotional, their thick accents make them sound less like they're impassioned and more like they're recovering from a stroke. This leads to plenty of slurred line deliveries and AccentUponTheWrongSyllable during ostensibly dramatic scenes. Xenia Seeberg had the lion's share of these moments (since she was a regular, obviously). However, she was surprisingly outdone by Creator/DieterLaser, who made every single Mantrid line sound like Creator/DolphLundgren on ketamine chewing rocks and finding a strange fascination in puckering his lips repeatedly.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Xenia Seeberg in "The Key". Your first time through the episode, she seems oddly stiff and lifeless, without any of Xev's natural spark or warmth. [[spoiler: Your second time though, when you know it's really Prince masquerading as Xev, marvel at how Seeberg subtly nails Nigel Bennett's cold, haughty aloofness and his catlike sense of amusement as he toys with his prey, without making the big reveal obvious at all.]]

* ContestedSequel
** Season 3 is often cited by fans as the best series, by focusing on an epic 13 episode arc, which introduced an intriguing, war setting and spiritual mythologies with the planets of Fire and Water, also debuts one of the most popular, reoccuring antagonists, with the mysterious and charismatic Prince.
*** Other fans were disappointed with the decision to abandon the planet of the week formula and there are less off-shoot, humorous episodes like series 2 or 4.

** Stanley Tweedle, a underdog, every day man who makes heroic decisions when push comes to shove, or a lecreous, gullable, whiny coward. Stan either deserves to be damned on Planet Fire or he's a hero for his role against fighting Mantrid who plans to destroy both universes .
** 790 an hilarious love-strucken useful robot head assistant, or an gimmick characters whose schtick gets old fast, and ends up being an annoying love sicken psychopath who should be thrown off the Lexx bridge, before his worse attributes are fully unleashed.

** The episode'BadCarrot' It's hilarous to see Kai perform an carrot-probe scan by pronging Prince's buttocks, or it's an example of VillainDecay.

* BrokenBase: A Midsummer's Nightmare
** Either an hilarous romp, parody of Shakespeare, or an episode so absurd it encapsulates everything that is wrong with season 4's focus on parodic storylines. Includes such memorable scenes such as Kai transformed into a dancing, singing tree, and where the cast disguises themselves in a circle as Stanely Tweedle, dressed as a fairy queen. Also of note it's written by Jon Spira & Andrew Selzer who never wrote another episode.

** 790 an hilarious love-strucken useful robot head assistant, or an annoying love sicken psychopath who should be thrown overboard.

** In the episidode Magic Baby[[spoiler: Stan of all people killing Vlad with a druid's staff they pick up. After Vlad's arc of several episodes it was anticlimactic introducing this plot device in the final one. "The Staff has the power" the druid says, for some unelaborated reason.]]

** Stanley Tweedle, a underdog, every day man who makes heroic decisions where push comes to shove, or a lecreous, gullable, whiny coward. Stan either deserves to be damned on Planet Fire or he's a hero for his role against fighting Mantrid who plans to destroy both universes .

** Stanley Tweedle, a underdog, every day man who makes heroic decisions where push comes to shove, or a lecreous, gullable,whiny coward. Stan either deserves to be damned on Planet Fire or he's a hero for motivating the crew to defeat Mandrud.

** Either an hilarous romp, parody of Shakespere, or an episode so absurd it escpaulates everything that is wrong with season 4's focus on parodic storylines. Includes such memorable scenes such as Kai transformed into a dancing, singing tree, and where the cast disguises themselves in a circle as Stanely Tweedle, dressed as a fairy queen.

** Either an hilarous romp, parody of Shakespere, or an episode so abusurb it escpaulates everything that is wrong with season 4's focus on parodic storylines. Includes such memorable scenes such as Kai transformed into a dancing, singing tree, and where the cast disguises themselves in a circle as Stanely Tweedle, dressed as a fairy queen.

* SeasonalRot: Season 4 has its episode count extended to the longest episode count of 24, but it was criticised by a subset of fans for being a drag, all set on Earth and a lot of the extential, otherworldy concepts took a backseat in favour of satire, and pop culture parody of earth society.
** To a lesser extent Season 3 made a divisive choice to go for a series long arc of 13 episodes set on the warring planets of Fire and Water.

** To a lesser extent Season 3 made a divisive choice to go for a series long arc of 13 episodes set of the warring planets of Fire and Water.