Up in flames
Final season of Lost Girl will heat up this winter
Just when viewers were getting to know television’s favourite succubus, Bo becomes lost to us. “Lost Girl” will air its final season beginning Sunday, Dec. 7, on Showcase, and producers are set to wrap up her story in fiery fashion.
Judging by the end of season 4, Bo (Anna Silk, “Being Erica”) and her friends will actually raise Hell to do so. The seductress returns to the fire and brimstone from whence she came to try to save the people she loves. Not all is “lost,” though, as the series has been given ample breathing room to tie up loose ends with a run of 16 episodes instead of the original 13.
After its premiere in 2010, the Canadian supernatural drama was touted as a homegrown hero. The first season premiere episode became the highest-rated Canadian scripted series premiere of all time on Showcase at the time, and the fan base grew rapidly as a result, seeing an infectious online presence develop, which includes webisodes, a f an-run podcast, a one-issue comic book and even a mobile game for iOS and Android devices.
Even with 16 episodes, there are still huge storylines to clear up and a lot of resolutions to be made. If the series proves anything, it’s that this succubus has a heart, so there will be a lot of healing coming our way. All’s fair, as f ans have had their share of love and war watching their favourite triangles be ripped apart, if not killed off entirely.
In an exclusive video from Showcase, Silk personally announced the show’s demise, soothing fans and giving her heartfelt thanks. “While endings are always sad, this one comes with a tremendous gift,” Silk said of the super-sized final season. “So while we might be saying goodbye, we’ll be doing it with a bang.”
After a fourth season that definitely featured a lot of big bangs and bold moves, Vanessa Piazza, executive producer of “Lost Girl,” explained to “Huffington Post” back in April that there’ll be a “real freshness” to season 5. The new season, she continued, will be “action-packed” and feature a theme centred on family, even if that family is an impossible mishmash of humans and otherworld creatures clawing their way up from far-flung reaches of the underworld.
In a conversation with pop culture website After Ellen, Silk confirmed that the new season will be focused on the entire group’s unity. “Family is another theme for season 5, for sure,” she said. “That comes in many forms in our show. There is Bo’s Fae family that she has made; her friends have become her family. Then there’s Bo’s actual bloodlines within the Fae world. So we definitely see more of that in season 5.” “Bo’s love life is always an underlying element of the show as well. It’s hard to not have that as a big theme when you’re a succu- bus,” Silk continued. “That certainly gets played out in different ways. I’m curious to see what viewers think when they see it. But I think that people will be really, really happy.”
And happy they have been. Bo and Lauren came out on top in the E! Online 2013 Top TV Couples Poll after thousands of fans had their say. If you think of all the amazing couples on television currently, this couple was voted the most real, touching and beloved to fans.
The “Lost Girl” cast will also be hosting a special guest in the upcoming fifth season. “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” fans will get an exciting treat as Charisma Carpenter will be appearing for a guest spot as Freyja, who’s best known as a prominent goddess in Norse mythology. Carpenter has been in quite a few supernatural thrillers, to say the least, and after her starring role as Cordelia in “Buffy,” she has appeared in “Angel,” “Charmed,” “Supernatural” and “Haunted High,” meaning dark occult and hellish forces may just be her cup of tea.