Three brilliant episodes out of seven. Unfortunately, one was the pilot. (Being Human)

Member Name: DarkestGrey

Product:	Being Human
Date:	07/03/09 (112 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Different, dark humour is very funny in places

Disadvantages: Some of the episodes dragged a little for me

Being Human is a BBC3 series which is about a Vampire and a Werewolf who are trying to be as humane as possible, trying to live a normal life.

The third character is already present in a house they decide to rent. She happens to be a ghost who isn't sure why she is still here.

BBC aired a pilot episode in 2008 and this was simply brilliant. The actors were all good and in particular, the girl who played the ghost was fantastic. Totally the opposite of how you may imagine the role to be played. The episode was very clear in the plot and was full of dark humour.

Unfortunately by the time the BBC decided to make a 6 part series, only one of the original actors was available to return.

To make things worse, the series almost assumed you knew what was happening right from the start. If I hadn't caught the pilot, I would probably have given up on the programme.

Episodes 1 to 4, I didn't find all that interesting. Each episode did highlight a completely new plot and you could probably miss some of these out without missing too much of the story. They seemed to be padding out the series. The dark humour was almost gone, the characters didn't seem to gel together so well - in fact, much of the time there was two stories happening at the same time; the only link was that they lived in the same house.

I almost gave up after the four episodes but since my video was on weekly timer, it did record the last two, episodes 5 and 6.

Now these were different.

The story moved on through these two hours and they seemed to be written as one long part of the story. The cliffhangers at the end of both did make you want to watch more. Humour was back in all the right places.

This was a brilliant idea for a series, an almost anti-vampire/werewolf/ghost stance by the characters.

I would recommend that if you are into Dracula type programs that this is worth the watch. I would strongly recommend that you watch the pilot episode first, however, as this does help hold a lot of the story together.

Summary: Worth a watch, but definately watch the pilot too!