Approx length: 5 seasons, 10 episodes each season.
Where to find it: It’s on a number of streaming services, but which depends on where you live. It’s also available on Blu-ray and DVD. Here’s a link to its Wikipedia page
What is it, in summary?: A science fiction series that follows two bounty hunters (nicknamed ‘killjoys’) as they try to keep out of trouble and fail utterly to do so. Dutch, our main character, tries to avoid a past that’s rapidly catching up with her, while the planet she’s chosen as her new home is brewing with rebellion and her best friend’s brother comes back into his life in the most dramatic of ways. Keeping to the fairly simple life of a killjoy will get harder and harder as the world changes around them.
What do you love about it?: It’s a show with a beginning, middle and end where you can tell the whole story was planned out from the very beginning. There is plenty of foreshadowing that actually pays off and the ending is an actual ending, leaving room for more stories but tying together all on-going story threads introduced since season 1. Also, if a character is said to be really good at a certain thing, they are, and the setting is a queernorm world!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: My favorite characters are side-characters (Fancy Lee and Alvis Akari) and I will be requesting any kind of story that includes them (pre-canon, mid-canon, post-canon, AU, etc etc).
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: If you watch season 1, I think you’ll get at least an outline of who Fancy Lee is and a good look at who Alvis Akari is. The prompts I’ll write in my request will likely spoil parts of the other seasons though.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): It’s been a while since I rewatched the whole show, but these are the general warnings I can think of, off the top of my head: Violence, indentured servitude, slavery, colonialism, war, mind control/possession/creatures taking over people’s bodies and minds, abuse, class discrimination, self-harm.
Killjoys (TV)
Title: Killjoys (TV)
Media: TV show
Approx length: 5 seasons, 10 episodes each season.
Where to find it: It’s on a number of streaming services, but which depends on where you live. It’s also available on Blu-ray and DVD. Here’s a link to its Wikipedia page
What is it, in summary?: A science fiction series that follows two bounty hunters (nicknamed ‘killjoys’) as they try to keep out of trouble and fail utterly to do so. Dutch, our main character, tries to avoid a past that’s rapidly catching up with her, while the planet she’s chosen as her new home is brewing with rebellion and her best friend’s brother comes back into his life in the most dramatic of ways. Keeping to the fairly simple life of a killjoy will get harder and harder as the world changes around them.
What do you love about it?: It’s a show with a beginning, middle and end where you can tell the whole story was planned out from the very beginning. There is plenty of foreshadowing that actually pays off and the ending is an actual ending, leaving room for more stories but tying together all on-going story threads introduced since season 1. Also, if a character is said to be really good at a certain thing, they are, and the setting is a queernorm world!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: My favorite characters are side-characters (Fancy Lee and Alvis Akari) and I will be requesting any kind of story that includes them (pre-canon, mid-canon, post-canon, AU, etc etc).
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: If you watch season 1, I think you’ll get at least an outline of who Fancy Lee is and a good look at who Alvis Akari is. The prompts I’ll write in my request will likely spoil parts of the other seasons though.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): It’s been a while since I rewatched the whole show, but these are the general warnings I can think of, off the top of my head: Violence, indentured servitude, slavery, colonialism, war, mind control/possession/creatures taking over people’s bodies and minds, abuse, class discrimination, self-harm.