Lost Girl-Bo Rules!!!

For those of you who have never heard of the television show Lost Girl, you are about to get a crash-course in one of the most no-nonsense, butt-kicking, heart-stealing female heroines of all time. There are five seasons of Lost Girl so I will only be covering season one. Bo, (short for Isabeau), is a 28 year old dark-haired beauty who makes her home in the ordinary human world. However, she must frequently skip town on murder charges because somehow all her lovers wind up dead after a night together. Bo’s call to adventure occurs when she rescues a human girl, Kenzi, from a would-be date rapist, killing him in the process. The cops called to the scene are not human cops, they are Fae, and work in the human police force to sweep Fae kills under the rug. They catch up to Bo and the result is the revealing of her true self, she belongs to a different species, the Fae. With the help of the Light Fae doctor, Lauren, Bo discovers that she is a succubus who feeds off of people’s sexual energy (explaining all the accidental dead lovers). The Fae are split into two societies, Light and Dark. When Bo is asked to pick a side she refuses, choosing instead to remain free of the ties that would bind her.
Bo’s call to adventure comes in the form of whispers of a threat to the Fae. An old enemy has been rumored to be around again and mysterious happenings begin in the Fae world. Only someone who is neither Light nor Dark is able to unite the Fae. Bo initially refuses the call, believing that since she has no alliance it is not her responsibility. This changes after she is confided in by Trick, (Fitzpatrick McCorrigan), the bartender and way-station keeper for the Fae. He confides in her that he knows the threat to the Fae, it is the Blood King’s daughter, Aife. Trick knows her motivations and her goals and he gives the knowledge to Bo to convince her that Aife is a threat to everyone’s way of life. Bo crosses the threshold when she is kidnapped by Aife, who turns out to be a fellow succubus that had befriended Bo previously in order to gain her trust. More is revealed when Bo discovers that Aife is, in fact, her biological mother who abandoned her as a baby. Bo escapes and tries to come up with a plan to stop Aife, while also bringing her back to the path of goodness.
The test begins when Aife’s plans come to fruition. A terrorist attack on the Light Fae elders that leaves the leader of the Light Fae fighting for his life. Bo teams up with Kenzi (her now best friend), Dyson (part wolf, part love interest), Hale (Dyson’s partner), Lauren (Light Fae doctor), and Trick (mentor). The ordeal is set in motion when Bo takes off on her own to stop Aife. Unbeknownst to Bo, Dyson also sets off on a mission. He goes to see a Norn, a powerful Fae to help Bo defeat Aife. She tricks him, agreeing to give his strength to Bo for the fight, but costing him his love of her to do it. Since she received Dyson’s strength Bo is able to eventually defeat Aife and save the Fae. On the road back it is revealed that Aife’s body has disappeared, (which is explained in a later season), and Bo and Dyson’s relationship is effectively ended by the Norn. The return with elixir is bittersweet; heartbroken over Dyson, Bo turns to Lauren, beginning an entirely new set of complications. The positive note is that Bo received the first answer to the mystery of who she is. After being abandoned as a baby and raised by humans, Bo’s main focus has been finding her family. Although the reunion with her mother was not a warm and fuzzy event, it does give her an essential piece to the puzzle, and allows her to continue her search with new information about her father.

Below is a clip capturing some of the best scenes from Lost Girl, most of which include Bo fighting some insane monster.