One show I've started watching again is Lexx. I missed a fair amount of the series when it was actually airing, but I found a source online and started downloading it. I watched the pilot last night, and I must say that it as as good as I remember (for good or bad, read on...)
For those who have not seen it, Lexx is a quirky, silly, dark, funny, sexy, science fiction television show. The show was made in Canada and Germany, mostly, and involves a complex plot and unusual characters. Here it is in a nutshell:
League of 20,000 planets is controlled by "His Shadow", a sinister being with extraordinary powers, working with previous Dark Shadows (Their brains, actually. The shadow can move from one to another, and they keep the old brains for collective wisdom...) He had developed The Lexx, an enormous ship capable of destroying entire planets. Lexx is part mechanical, and part biological. They "grow" the Lexx.
Stanley Tweedle is a very minor member of the working class and gets in trouble for various minor things, but eventually, due to the number of demerits, is scheduled for "termination". Stanley lives only to save his own skin. He's weasley and, well you get the idea. He also helped cause the destruction of 100 planets and is sometimes referred to as "Arch-Traitor Stanley Tweedle".
Zev is a fat and ugly chick arrested for punching out her betrothed after he called her some horrible names. She was accused of failing to perform her wifely duties (See, Rowan?) Her sentence was to be made into a "love slave". During the transformation process, a large killer worm made it's way into the machine with her, and got it's head cut off. After the transformation, Zev is now beautiful (extrememly beautiful!!), but now also has part of this worm in her. She can now communicate with the creatures, and it has made her a bit more... Dangerous as well.
Kai, is a "Brunnen-G", the last "survivor" of his kind, who was prophesized would bring about the end of the Dark Shadow after the extinction of the Brunnen-G! (?) He was killed by the Dark Shadow, but his remains were kept, and he was re-animated to be used as an assassin. Eventually he escapes the Dark Shadows grasp and joins with Zev and Stanley as they hi-jack the Lexx and make a run for safety.
So you've got a wimp, a sex slave, and an undead assassin traveling in a dragonfly-shaped, planet killing spaceship the size of manhatten having crazy adventures all over the known universes. Later on in the series, Zev is changed into Xev (due to scheduling conflicts, the entirely hawt Eva Habermann cannot film the show after the initial run of episodes, so they replace her with Xenia Seeberg, who is also very sexy.) Thankfully the change is done right and written properly into the plot. Xev continues Zev's active sexuality and keeps the show funny and sexy at the same time.
Ok, it's low budget and kind of campy, but very interesting nonetheless, and the unusual characters make for some good times (or not so good times, as the case may be!) I recommend watching a few episodes, and see where this crazy trio wind up!
P.S. - There is also a robot head that was accidentally made to fall in absolute love with Zev, but of course he can do nothing physical about it,as he is only a robot head! You should see him get jealous! Later, of course, he somehow falls in love with Kai, which is kind of wierd, considering Kai is a guy... Crazy!
P.P.S - I think Rutger Hauer co-stars later in in the series, but not exactly sure when. He is an important part of the story arc.