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Farscape is a science fiction television show. Four regular seasons were produced, from 1999 to 2003. Each season consists of 22 episodes. Each episode is intended to air in a one-hour television timeslot (with commercials), and runs for 44 to 50 minutes.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleDirected By11Andrew Prowse22Pino Amenta33"Exodus from Genesis"44"Throne for a Loss"Pino AmentaS3.E1 ∙ Season of Death. Fri, Mar 16, 2001. D'Argo and Stark try to heal John, left with his head open on an operating table, while Scorpius attempts to avoid discovery. Zhaan makes a great personal sacrifice, while Jothee and Chiana commit an indiscretion. 8.2/10 (709)
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By Maureen Ryan
Updated: Mar 18, 2019 7:36 pm
Posted: Mar 18, 2019 4:04 pm
Farscape, one of the most memorable science fiction sagas to ever blaze a trail through the television universe, turns 20 years old this week. It premiered March 19, 1999 in the US and a few months later in the U.K.
There’s good news if you never saw Farscape and have always been meaning to dive in: All four seasons and the wrap-up Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, which had been unavailable on streaming for a while, arrive in HD on Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday, the show’s US anniversary date. (Stream Farscape on Amazon right here beginning March 19.) The Amazon deal makes it available to Prime customers in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Nordic nations and several other countries (Farscape is also available on iTunes and DVD).
There’s a viewing guide for newbies below, but even hardcore Scapers may want to take the whole ride again, as I recently did. I can report that Farscape’s frelling* magic is intact. If anything, on a TV scene that still doesn’t have enough energetic, character-driven, risk-taking sci-fi series (aside from my beloved Killjoys, which ends this year), the wild and woolly Farscape continues to stand out. Farscape's Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and John Crichton (Ben Browder)(*One of the first things you’ll notice about Farscape is that it has its own swear words. If you decide to check out the show — and part of the point of this piece is to make sampling it as easy as possible — you will become well acquainted with Farscape’s many exotic curses.)
Farscape was a radical show that took a lot of chances, so I feel comfortable offering this perhaps unusual recommendation to newcomers: Don’t watch every episode.
This advice is not just given to save you time or money. I firmly believe that the quickest way to create more Farscape fans is to get newbies get to the strongest episodes of Season 1 as quickly as possible.
I’ve been a bit more expansive in the season-by-season recommendation lists below (there are a few episodes between the pilot and “Nerve” that provide helpful information and context, if you care to take a slightly longer route through Season 1). Below, I’ve sorted each season’s episodes into three categories: Essential, Optional and For Completists Only. The Essential and Optional rosters are made up of a mixture of standalone and serialized episodes, though the more mythology-heavy episodes tend to land in the former category; they’re just that good.
If you enjoy your science-fiction tales with healthy doses of subversiveness, heart, imagination and ambition, Farscape may be for you.
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Farscape takes a lot of big swings and not all of them connect, and if you watch the whole series, you are pretty likely to develop your own list of irritants that you could do without. But in its 90-installment run, there are also many thrilling moments, and I’ve done my best to indicate which episodes are must-watches.
Despite the ups and downs, there’s a reason that I wrote about this show a lot back in the day and eagerly revisited it this year. If you enjoy your science-fiction tales with healthy doses of subversiveness, heart, imagination and ambition, Farscape may be for you. So watch the whole thing or cruise through the high points. The choice is yours — but if you love science fiction, you’re missing out if you don’t at least give it a whirl.
Head to the next page for our Farscape Essential Episodes Guide.
S1.E5 ∙ PK Tech Girl. Fri, Apr 16, 1999. After finding the legendary Peacekeeper battleship, Zelbinion, dead in space and emptied of most of its useful technologies Crichton, Aeryn, and D'Argo find a Peacekeeper tech under Crais's command, Gilina, who survived a raid on the ship. Under threat of another scavenger attack, they work to get the ...
