Being Human

Being Human's back on TV.

This is the BBC Three series about three people: a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire: who live in a little pink house in Bristol.

It sounds like bloody Rentaghost, but it isn't. There's blood, and pain, and fear, and horror.

Annie, the ghost, learned that she'd been murdered by her wife-beater of a husband. George, the werewolf, got wounded by Tully, and becomes an abortion of Nature by the light of the fullmoon. And Mitchell got turned by Herrick in a woodland in WWI.

Season 1 showed the three of them settling in and slowly coming to terms with being themselves, hiding from scrutiny and trying to fit in amongst the humans. This is Season 2, and war is looming on the horizon.

In the last ep of Season 1, George deliberately changed and, in wolf form, shredded Herrick. Mitchell had accidentally created a childe at the beginning - she gives up her existence at the end of Season 1.

And Annie rejects The Door, the chance to Pass Over which may only happen once in a ghost's existence, and acquired powers and relative solidity - now people can see her, even if they don't believe her to be a ghost.

So there are new complications in Season 2. Mitchell finds a new woman, whom I suspect might turn out to belong to this faction of hunters that's arrived in town; Annie's finding a new job in a pub; and George's girlfriend has been scratched by George, and could turn into a werewolf herself at any time.

But otherwise, life goes on. So it does.

Lovely.

And Survivors is coming on soon, along with CSI: NY, NCIS, Numb3rs and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on five. TV is getting interesting, for once.