So Bo and Dyson go undercover as a ritzy husband and wife while Kenzi goes undercover as an employee.īonus screenshot of Dyson teasing Kenzi and Kenzi flipping Dyson off. “This one’s name was Meow Meow,” he says of Kenzi. Bo cheekily asks if his cousin is a rabbit, to which the guy replies that it’s just a street name. I do appreciate the effort, though.Īnyway, an old friend of Kenzi’s from her street days asks for help since his cousin Thumper is one of the employees who went missing. Feels very much like a white person wrote this in 2010. They only get a parting gift at the end of the episode when Bo lets them rise up and kill the monster. The main focus of our concern is Kenzi, who isn’t a real immigrant, only one in disguise.

The whole thing feels pretty half-assed, and the immigrant employees themselves–the actual victims–are never front and center where they should be. I feel like it’s pretty obvious they were trying to create some kind of bloated metaphor here a la old school Buffy, where the rich white members of the country club are literally feeding off the sacrifices of the immigrant employees and becoming richer and richer while the sacrifices get swept under the table and forgotten.īut to be honest, I feel like it could have been executed better. In this case, the landwyght periodically feeds off illegal immigrant employees so that the country club members reap riches. The remaining inhabitants on the land then reap enormous rewards in the form of riches, promotions, abundant plant growth, and so on. Let me just explain the Fae of the Week up front: it’s called a “landwyght,” and it is bound to a piece of land on which it periodically feeds on the inhabitants to then fertilize said land with their remains. Lost Girl tries to keep it’s location ambiguous throughout its run, so we don’t quite know if we’re in the US or Canada. It also doesn’t make clear what country we are in. The show doesn’t directly acknowledge this even though it wants us to make the connection. It never refers to the illegal immigrants as anything other than “illegals” or “foreigners” when referencing discrimination, and so it doesn’t directly address the issue of racism even though it’s clearly at play–most if not all of the illegal immigrants we see are from Latin America, Kenzi goes undercover as a Venezuelan, and all the country club members are rich white people. To be honest, this episode doesn’t ever delve too deeply into the political and social issues it’s nodding to. So some tree monster is nabbing illegal immigrant employees at a rich white people country club.

Kenzi and Hale, like the rest of us, are fed up with all this boring heterosexual nonsense, and make a bet on when Bo and Dyson will break up again.įor the record, I do support heterosexuality on this show. I’m pretty sure Kenzi and Hale represent the entire Lost Girl fandom at this moment. The second to last episode of Season 1 has Bo and Dyson being all domestic and nauseatingly square and heterosexual, where they go undercover with Kenzi to a rich country club where illegal immigrant employees have been disappearing.Īnd you know what, in honor of an evil megalomaniacal racist guilty of countless crimes against humanity being elected out of the office of US president, I’m gonna post my first Lost Girl Rewatch blg post in months. It’s been a while, but I’m finally back on my Lost Girl bullshit. Almost exactly 10 years ago today, Lost Girl episode 1x08 - Vexed aired for the first time on Showtime.

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