In Review: Being Human (Season 2 – Episode 7)
Written by Ian Cullen on February 23, 2010 – 11:50 am -
Synopsis: Mitchell learns the truth about Lucy and the massacre. Nina returns with potentially good news for George. While Kemp offers to help Annie pass over.
The Review: This episode pretty much picks up where the last left off, and we get a nice little insight into how Ivan met Daisy at the start to set up the vampire vengeance storyline.
After Ivan dies to save Mitchell from the gas explosion that kills 30 vampires. Daisy who is consumed with feelings of vengeance recruits Mitchell into helping her on her mission to find out who killed Ivan and all the other Vampires.
Of course Mitchell who was going all out to humanize the other Vampires so that Vampires could live normal lives has reconsidered his position, and after having been put in a position where he had to feed is more vulnerable and open to suggestion. So when he discovers that it was his girlfriend Lucy that gave the order to have them all killed. It’s enough to drive him over the edge and teamed with Daisy a whole train of London underground passengers pay the ultimate price.
Meanwhile Nina has come back into George’s life with news of a cure for their condition. Of course when George learns that the cure is a promise made by our Catholic priest with a questionable take on the scriptures. He calls a meeting to hear Father Kemp out, and dismisses it as bunk.
However, when Annie asks Kemp to help her crossover things take on a new twist.
George who has effectively moved out is now living with his new girlfriend and her daughter, and when attending a PTA meeting we learn that George’s transformation into a werewolf doesn’t account for the change from GMT to British Summer Time, and begins to transform while at the meeting and rushes out. However enough of the transformation has took place to cause some concern from his girlfriend and her young daughter. Which leads George to the sad realisation that he’ll never be able to have a normal life!
As a result of this realisation George along with Annie head off to Father Kemp and Professor Jaggart to pursue the cure for the werewolf curse.
Meanwhile, Mitchell who is still consumed by rage and blood lust heads to the church in search of Lucy, and inadvertently finds out that Lucy is the scientist who is working with Kemp on the cure for his friend George.
Its fair to say that this being the penultimate episode Being Human is building up to the end game of season two, and when compared to last weeks cliffhanger this episode relies far more on tense drama than it does big explosions. However seeing how dangerous Mitchell can be in a state of blood lust was disconcerting, and his warning to Annie and George to stay out of the cities was eerily scary in the sense that you know he means it.
Some really strong acting performances here, and it all looks to bold well for the season two finale, which airs next week.
Score 7/10
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By jackie on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
This was such a good episode – scenery chewing by Mitchell, a terrible transition for George (I still feel he screams in a really high pitched voice when he’s changing and it sounds more Jack Russell terrier than werewolf…) and the sadness in his eyes when he realised he could never live the normal life he wants was heartbreaking. Loved the exorcism that wasn’t. Poor Annie! She was nearly ready to run away through boredom. Mitchell’s warning about staying out of the cities was sinister, but I do wonder how they’re going to wind this one up next week. We’ve got all our protagonists either at the lab or heading there, and we’ll see that horrid decompression chamber there again (why didn’t werewolves smell the blood from previous occupants?) so a grand finale awaits. I hope.
By Ian Cullen on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
I loved it too. I was half tempted to give it a slightly higher mark. But felt that it’d be jumping the gun a bit given that I sense the next episode is really going to be big.
I love that Mitchell has lost control and hope that he struggles to regain it in the next episode, because I don’t want it to be too easy for him to come to the decision to save George and Annie. Knowing what he has found out about Lucy.