I've recently enountered a little known British Science Fiction comedy called Starhyke. It was made back in 2008/9 and stars Babylon 5's own superb Claudia Christian in the lead role. I'd heard various comments about this show and when i saw it on sale I decided to buy a DVD copy.
I was pleasently surprised, its a funny, witty clever little show with great special effects, stories, acting. It shamelessly sends up science fiction like a mad thing! For a sci-fi comedy it works. True it wont beat Red Dwarf which always will be king of the sci fi laughs however Starhyke knocks the frankly terrible Hyperdrive rightly into third place. It reminds me a little of the old Captain Kremmen cartoon in the 70's made by the late great Kenny Everett with a contempoary slant. Very madcap, slapstick styled humour.
The show also has a solid ensemble cast with experience in science fiction and comedy. Jeremy Bulloch who played Boba Fett in Star Wars, Suanne Braun, Hathor in Stargate SG1 and featuring special guests in the form of Red Dwarf's own Danny John Jules and the ever awesome Sir Patrick Moore.
I'm surprised the show hasn't been picked up by one of the many digital channels here in the UK. Starhyke is better than a lot of the comedy crap thats out there today. If you are looking for the very PC styled humour thats about today, truck on. If you like wild, mad, send up sitcom styled humour, this is for you.
The show is made with love and care and it shows. The DVD has all six episodes and a bonus disk packed with bloopers, auditions, makings of etc.
A great first season attempt and deserves a lot more attention and a second season!
Goto: www.starhyke.com
I bought the DVD from here: www.play.com
1 comments:
That is a very good review,i am a huge star wars fan and only really purchased it as Jeremy Bulloch was in it,but after seeing it i just wanted to watch more.Great series,great cast ,great directing...so please check it out so that we can get more star hyke..
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