Lost Girl "Faetal Attraction" Review

"I was serenely independent and content before we met, surely I can always be that way again--I've grown accustomed to her face."--Henry Higgins, Pygmalion

Love is in the air in "Faetal Attraction." Of course, with love comes rejection. Love and rejection are the most prominent themes in #104. Love drives people crazy, friends and well-wishers. For some, love makes people go the good crazy. For others, love makes people go the bad crazy. Love is rarely kind for any character on a genre show. Lost Girl used the same title, with different spelling, as the late 80s thriller about a psychotic woman in love, which meant we weren't getting an episode about the loveliness of love.

Bo's been a sad succubus since she walked in on Dyson passionately kissing a cocktail waitress. Kenzi watched her roommate sleep whilst licking a popsicle, and then woke her with high squeals and physicality. Kenzi wanted to communicate, to INTERFACE, with her new friend about how she really feels about Dyson's slimeball move. Bo swore she was fine and explained her sluggishness stems from a case of the flu however, she's a fae and fae's don't get the flu, or something, and Kenzi points out that for the first time in her life, she's been rejected and it feels crummy. Bo then realizes that, yes, she does feel rather crummy since Dyson rejected her through kissing that cocktail waitress. The girls engage in a conversation about the remedies for rejection. For Kenzi, the only way to remedy the burn is to smash an abandoned car's windows, down a few shots of hard liquor, find the best possible person in the bar and have sex with him or her.

Bo agrees to have a threesome with a married couple once she sees Dyson and his partner walk into the bar for a drink. Bo's attracted to the wife's 'awesome bone structure.' Samir, the husband, vows he wouldn't have strayed outside of marriage without his wife's permission. The trio have sex together. Kenzi sat one floor below, trying to eat cereal, but sawdust kept falling from the ceiling. The next morning, Bo beamed that rebound sex cured all that ailed her. Of course, the wife returned to hire Bo and Kenzi to kill someone. Their private investigation services don't include contract killings though. Bo wants to protect the woman who the wife wants dead, the woman who's been sleeping with Samir. The wife, Olivia, is a fury, which means she can control a person's mind with her fiery eyes.

Olivia seemed like the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction; in fact, I bought into the idea that she was until a prolonged mirror shot of the blonde-woman-in-peril who had been touched by Bo. The mystery of who beheaded the adulterous husband disappeared, and it became quite clear that the blonde woman is quite crazy. Somehow, Olivia's sudden insanity, caused by her own reflection, cleared her of the crime. Evidently, an insane woman cannot properly tranquilize someone. Anyway, the twist sort of snuck up on me, but the prolonged mirror shot gave away the ghost prematurely, so I yelled, "IT'S THE BLONDE WOMAN!" randomly because I felt like I needed to state aloud that I can predict where a story is going.

The most fascinating part of the story involved our heroine, Bo, and specifically the effects of her ability. Bo hasn't thought about her ability. Sure, she noticed a trend during a ten year span in which male suitors wound up dead after copulating with her. Sure, the Light and the Dark want her to learn more about her ability. Bo ignored them. Bo's automatic decision to use her touch on someone nearly killed Kenzi and herself. I wonder if Bo will think more about her ability now, if this is the beginning of a new personal arc, separate from the Dyson arc. Will Bo learn her actions have consequences? Presently, she's rather fond of pursuing more sex with Dyson. I do hope Bo's thoughtless use of touch isn't a one-episode-and-done plot point.

Other Thoughts:

-Amber Goldfarb DOES have awesome bone structure. Also, I noticed that Canada's more comfortable with shots of side boob than the United States of America. Anna Silk's side boob was on display in the first episode. Goldfarb's side boob was on display in "Faetal Attraction." I have no problem with this.

-Kenzi ranted about her own frustrations in love, but no one listened to her. I'm waiting patiently for a Kenzi-centric hour.

-Detective Hale is a Siren fae. I did not expect that, mostly because I associate Sirens with females, but that's just because of the Greek myth. This reveal reminded me of Joyce's Sirens chapter, the most musical piece of prose written by the literary giant. James Joyce was awesome.

-Jeremy Boxen wrote the episode. Steve DiMarco directed it.

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