With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10…
Being Human went through a lot of surface changes in the course of five years, but always managed to end up much the way it started; with a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost who all live together fighting to save humanity from every greater supernatural (and increasingly apocalyptic) threat. Now that the show has…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, August 16, and Saturday, August 17. All times are Eastern.
Being Human, the British show about a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost living together in a house in Wales, spent much of its fourth season getting its original cast members mustered out and replacing them with new actors playing a different vampire, werewolf, and ghost. Now that the grafts are all in place and the…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13. All times are Eastern.
The BBC has announced that the current fifth season of its supernatural dramedy Being Human will be its last. Created by Toby Whithouse, the series began in 2008 and originally revolved around the adventures of a vampire, John (Aidan Turner); a werewolf, George (Russell Tovey); and the ghost of a recently murdered…
“Why would she want to come back to this!?” howls poor Josh, the reluctant werewolf, in the season premiere of Being Human. It’s a better, more nagging question than Josh, or the writers who come up with his dialogue, may realize. Over the course of two seasons, Being Human quickly went from pleasantly undistinguished…
The rules regarding supernatural creatures change from movie to movie, TV show to TV show. It’s a crapshoot now whether a vampire can walk around in broad daylight or can’t risk exposure to the sun without bursting into flame, and George Hamilton’s Dracula in Love At First Bite may have been the last member of his…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14. All times are Eastern.
Being Human’s second season finale arrives maybe a couple of episodes past the point where it may have still been possible to say something interesting about the state of the series. Anyone who finds listless moping exciting when it’s done by pretty people with access to blood squibs and thinks that an atmosphere of…
If, for some reason that might seem unimaginable to us now but isn't really any more unlikely than H. G. Wells' brainstorm that our technologically advanced Martian conquerors wouldn't be able to figure out how to get themselves vaccinated, some future generation is in need of confirmation that the North American …
Tonight's episode begins with Aidan on the soundtrack, intoning, “Even in the most hopeless battle, there is a moment when the tide can turn.” If the current season of Being Human could have a moment like that, it would probably be the moment near the end of last week's episode when Aidan took out Connor the…
During the snappiest moments of its fourth season premiere, the original, British version of Being Human pulls off the mixture of thrills, humor, and kitchen-sink drama about as well as it ever has, maybe better. This is partial compensation for the intensification of the show's pointlessness. Being Human has only…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, February 24, and Saturday, February 25. All times are Eastern.
At the end of last week's episode, Big Mama Vampire was having some private time with Vampire Terry Kinney and, referring the Josh and Sally, uttered the vampire queen equivalent of, "I want you to deal with this 'Jim Rockford' in a way that will be very… permanent," except that whatever she said was much classier…
The U.S. version of Being Human had a bumpy ride during its first season, and never distinguished itself as anything stronger than light, time-killer entertainment, and I suspect that fans of the original U.K. series think that it's shit. It's as big a hit as SyFy has had in the post-Battlestar Galactica era, though,…
As a season finale, “The Wolf-Shaped Bullet” is and isn’t everything it should have been. I’m torn about it, as it does give closure to a lot of the issues that were set up in “Lia” and developed throughout the rest of season three. But it’s largely done in a rather dissatisfying way. I maintain that the season…
As satisfying as the denouement of “Though the Heavens Fall” may be as a series of shocking events, it leaves me wondering how the episode, which only really comes alive during its final 15 minutes, fulfills the ideas that were set up over the course of the last six episodes. Season three has largely been about…
The problem with evaluating a TV drama is that so much of any serialized narrative revolves around judging a single episode based on how well it is able to deliver on its promises. Even if it gets everything but the ending of a story arc right, that botched ending often looms larger than all of the capable…
