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TV: Being Human

Being Human 4.01: “Eve of the War”

February 6, 2012
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human. This is a very hard review for me to write, because I am of two minds about Being Human‘s fourth series premiere. As a piece of supernatural drama tinged with black comedy, it is expertly and quite beautifully written, directed, and acted. If [...]

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Monsters Redux: Becoming Human

March 22, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all episodes of Becoming Human. I’ve been watching Becoming Human, the excellent web series spin-off to Being Human, each week, though I decided not to review on a week-to-week basis, as the installments were each too short for me to have enough to discuss. Last Sunday, however, on [...]

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Being Human 3.08: “The Wolf-Shaped Bullet”

March 14, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human. And thus concludes the greatest series of one of the greatest shows to ever grace the small screen. “The Wolf-Shaped Bullet” is also very likely the greatest episode of Being Human to date–a thrilling, intense, tragic, darkly humorous, heartbreaking, uplifting hour that [...]

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Being Human 3.07: “Though the Heavens Fall”

March 7, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human. This is one of the most difficult reviews I’ve had to write in a long time. The difference between good and great storytelling for me is the difference between being interested in a story, genuinely curious to see where it will go, [...]

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Being Human 3.06: “Daddy Ghoul”

March 4, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human. Ever since watching Being Human‘s original pilot episode two years ago, I have been patiently but eagerly waiting for the show’s brilliant writers to handle one particular topic that George himself has been avoiding–namely, the family he left behind. In that episode (which [...]

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Being Human 3.05: “The Longest Day”

February 21, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human. Being Human really is starting to ruin me for all other television. I have just never seen any other show whose writing, acting, and production match the sheer genius and humanity that Toby Whithouse’s brainchild accomplishes on a weekly basis. And I [...]

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Being Human 3.04: “The Pack”

February 14, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human, including the most recent, “The Pack.” Although young werewolf Tom specifically references The Three Little Pigs in “The Pack,” the fourth episode of Being Human‘s third series actually calls to mind another fairy tale–namely, Rapunzel. Just as the Witch in that tale kidnapped a [...]

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Being Human 3.03: “Type 4″

February 7, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human, including the most recent, “Type 4.” Another episode of Being Human, another masterpiece. After two series of vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, Being Human finally tackles that other great horror staple, namely zombies, but does so in such a way that is as darkly [...]

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Being Human 3.02: “Adam’s Family”

January 31, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human and Becoming Human. Successful standalone characters on television shows can be difficult to write. A good standalone character has to be a well-rounded, three-dimensional person but, at the same time, also say or represent something meaningful about or to the regular protagonists. Since [...]

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Being Human 3.01: “Lia”

January 24, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Being Human, including the most recent, “Lia.” Toby Whithouse’s masterful supernatural drama, Being Human, returned to BBC Three last night with an absolutely superb series premiere that manages to accomplish a number of major storytelling goals with the writerly economy and elegance that has [...]

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