I think I was hooked the moment it started - not just because there was Russell Tovey ripping his clothes off but it was the way that the audience was being brought into his life - the terror of his life - not being in control - having something so powerful take over your body and the fear in knowing it is about to happen. I loved Tovey in the History Boys and he did not disappoint. He had some classic scenes - and the innocence of him looking around and then cleaning his new flat was priceless - a real little housewife! Guy Flanagan was also incredible - so effortless in his acting - you immediately warmed to his character - not your usual vampire! Even when he bit his girlfriend you felt empathy for him because again you knew how hard he was trying to fight against it. Annie's character was so sweet - you felt so sorry for her - even though it was never mentioned how she actually died, I think deep down you knew she had had a tragic ending, possibly by her own hand. Love the show!

Being Human is an odd mixture of genres. There's some sit-com about three supernatural beings living together, straight-up horror with plenty of gore and some very serious and emotional human drama, where being a vampire is compared to an addiction. The best I can think to compare it with would be Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga) which would also be a mixture of high mythology and human drama and then suddenly be making jokes about Edward Elric's heights. Or lack of same. It should be a mess, but most of the time, it works and works perfectly, although I will admit that there were times when even I found it a little too jarring.Maybe 'mixture of genres' is the wrong expression, because that usually implies that the creators have be throwing random elements into their work, trying to draw in as many demographics as possible to appeal to more people, but the series clearly contradicts this notion, by doing the unexpected and not being afraid to hurt the characters and by extension, the audience. I won't spoil anything, but one of the season finals clearly took a page out of 'The George R. R. Martin Handbook of How to Make Your Audience Miserable'. They shake up the status quo again and again but most of the time it feels completely natural and organic. Although again, there was one point, where I thought that a characters exit was to jarring but these things are not always in the creator's control.What I maybe like best about this series is the many layers in it. It is about seeking to be human and how love and friendship can set you on the road. But it is also about how love and friendship is not always enough to overcome the monster in you, which is very bleak indeed. And those two themes battle throughout the series, until a third theme, a third thesis is brought in, in the series final and really moves me in all its bittersweetness.So yeah, come for the eye candy, stay for everything else.

This show became addictive. I fell in love with the characters, especially Mitchell (Aiden Turner). The show was much more than I originally thought it was going to be like. I compared it to Twilight and I instantly knew that it had to be better. Sorry Twilight fans but it's the truth. There is more to it, less sparkling and more of a stable romance between characters. I have to say that this is my favorite show featuring vampires, everything else that I have seen has either just been about getting the girl or fitting in. This show goes around in all sorts of directions, friends, family, relationships, new home, new faces and new places to go, the more the show goes on the more we understand the characters and theirs pasts. I have to say that Mitchell's past is the darkest but the most interesting because of how long it is, how many different lives he's lived as a vampire. It's amazing and I wish they put more episodes out there. It's an amazing show and I love it!

I forced myself to watch the first three seasons and episode one of the fourth. After that, no matter how much I craved entertainment, I couldn't force myself to watch another episode. To be fair, I watched the first three seasons hoping it would get better. Well, as is said, better hope in the soul than soap in your hole. This is yet another poor attempt to create a fantasy/horror/whatever series hoping to evoke a WOW in those watching it. For me it was more of a THUD. I saw one inconsistency listed on this board yet I saw many throughout the series, other than Annie's gravestone. Why for instance are we subjected to George's bare butt after he has transformed back to being human, but Nina is shown fully clothed? Are female werewolves more modest for some reason and is this natural to the werewolf persona? When for example, between transforming from werewolf to human, is she coherent enough to dress herself again? I believe this is called cheap theatrics and not worthy of those viewing the program. Are two races of beings, which have survived countless centuries, so ill prepared that a werewolf arrives in an attic to take down a vampire just before he transforms and is thus susceptible to being killed instead by the vampire? He's already killed dozens of other vampires, yet the one he has been searching for the longest, he mucks up so very badly. As a plot device it was the weakest link. I would highly recommend in future, BBC takes a leaf from HBO in the production of plausible fantasy/horror. This is after all the keystone to good fiction, making even the wildest of ideas somehow plausible. It would be equally grand if Hollywood and all television production would actually read some of the very great works of fantasy/science fiction which are available and have been for more than thirty years. Why are we being subjected to remakes of classics such as Total Recall, Conan and others? Especially when the remakes are so poorly executed.