Blood Suckers, Wild Dogs and Vengeful Spirits, Oh My!
Spoiler Alert! Don't say I didn't warn you:P
Monday nights have consistently been good for television, and this season gave me one more reason to relax, kick up my feet and flip on the tube. So here's my Monday nights: dinner with the hubby and TV. First its "How I Met Your Mother at 7:30, always reruns but always good (I catch the new episodes on the Tuesdays on the CBS website, because the new episode time interferes with "House"). At 8 is an hour long episode of "House" and finally at 9 I tune in to Sy Fi to watch "Being Human."
While House has been a favorite of mine since '07, I not only have learned its basic formula but also know the exact moment when House discovers what is truly wrong with his patient. I will give the creators some credit for bringing in something new with the whole Cuddy/House "relationship" that has been looming there for the totality of the show. Hugh Laurie will always grab my attention with the new insults and interesting dynamics of Dr. Greggory House's relationships.
But, alas, I have to admit that my favorite part of Monday nights is "Being Human." Maybe its the newness, but somehow I think that its more than that. Here's where the spoilers begin, so if you are interested in this show at all and don't want to know anything till you see it yourself, STOP READING! If you are not going to read anymore of this post, than I highly suggest you go to http://www.syfy.com/rewind/beinghuman and start watching:) Ok, seriously, next few paragraphs, spoilers. So no reading them if you have any desire to see it first, and no blaming me if you do read it and then regret it:)
Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!
Read at your own risk!
I will admit, I missed the first episode, but fully intend to go back and watch it. But let me begin by giving the basics. We have three main characters: Aiden, Josh and Sally. Three roommates trying to make it in this crazy world. Josh and Aiden are gainfully employed at the hospital while Sally hangs around the house. Oh, did I forget to mention, they are all supernatural creatures? Sally is a ghost who hasn't yet passed, Aiden is a vampire who seems to be second in command with his group of vamps and Josh is a kid (20s, all of them) who had his life highjacked when a werewolf infected him and now he has some unusual changes once a month. Along with these main characters are some pretty important supporting characters. Danny is Sally's finance, or he was until she died. Bridget is Danny's new girlfriend. Nora is Josh's girlfriend who has no idea he's a werewolf. And Bishop is the leader of Aiden's vampire group, sect, whatever they are. While they are supernatural beings, and the show's main theme is that they are trying to live as normal of lives as possible while being monsters by their nature, it is a social commentary. We are all trying to fit in, to find our place in this world. And each episode really has a way of touching the small things that we all struggle with.
When the series begins we have no idea how Sally died, and neither does she! But she isn't moving on. As time progresses and we see Danny and his new girlfriend, Bridget, we realize he plays more of a role than just being Aiden and Josh's landlord. Eventually we learn that Danny killed Sally. Danny's always had an awful temper and when Sally (accidentally) loses her engagement ring down the sink drain, she and Danny get into an explosive argument. He questions Sally's love for him while grabbing her. He eventually shoves her down the stairs where she lands on a landing and cracks her skull. For a couple of episodes after this Sally tries to contact Bridget to warn her of Danny's abusive nature and each time she gets stronger and stronger. She struggles throughout the series with her pain and with trying to exact revenge on Danny. Sally's other struggle in the series is that she has always been this kind girl who gave up her dreams for others, especially Danny. There is an episode where she meets another ghost and tries to have a relationship with him. She acknowledges toward the end of the episode that she is settling and she ends the relationship because she doesn't want to make the same mistake in death that she did in life. She doesn't want to "live" someone else's life, she wants to "live" her own.
As of last night's episode Josh has become my favorite. He's adorable, the voice of reason and has jokes. Josh's history is as follows: he was in med school, he was a family man and he was engaged, but that all changed when he was on a trail with his buddy. They were attacked by a wolf and his friend was killed. He later discovered the wolf was not an ordinary wolf. So once a month, every month for the rest of his life he changes into a monster that he has absolutely no control over. Josh has faced his "creator," who begged for him to bond with him and treat him almost as if he were Josh's father. Josh didn't seem to have a problem telling the other wolf that Aiden and Sally were his family and understood him and he would not abandon them. In a later episode Josh's sister is attacked and he goes home to protect his family. He must explain to them why he cannot be near them, and his family has a bit of a hard time believing he is a werewolf (indicating that instead he is just insane). His most recent struggle is that he has impregnated Nora, his girlfriend, and is extremely concerned that the baby will be a werewolf.
Aiden is the mastermind behind Josh and he living in the apartment with Sally. He encourages Sally to try to find peace and move on and for him and Josh to try to live as much like humans as possible. Aiden has been around the longest. From flashbacks of his past the audience slowly learns that he was married and had a young son before he was turned. It is unclear what happened to them, but there is some hint that either Bishop or Aiden himself killed them. Bishop is Aiden's sire (the vampire that turned him) and runs the sect in Boston. Bishop considers Aiden his son, and therefore things become hard when Aiden has created this new "family" with Josh and Sally. In one of the most recent episodes Aiden betrays Bishop twice. First he rescues Josh from dogfighting and being enslaved to the vampires. Secondly he saves one of the members of The Dutch from Bishop (he was not fast enough to save them all). Apparently Aiden has always butted heads with Bishop but this time its gone too far for Bishop to let it slide.
4/4/11: Your The One I Haunt
Sally is sick from the exorcism which nearly wiped her completely out of existence until she possessed the medium and the medium saw Danny kill her (Sally). She is veiny and green and Josh is slightly freaked. This was the moment I knew he was my favorite.
Josh: "She looks like the grudge."
Aiden: "She looks a little sick."
Josh: " A little sick? If we filmed her right now and showed a friend, they'd be dead in three days!"
Sally ends of getting better only after she has cut Danny pretty deep with his razor. He is in the hospital where Josh sees him and Sally shows up to explain what happened. She is practically giddy with the fact that she hurt Danny.
In the meantime, Aiden and Josh are carrying stakes in their bags because Aiden is sure Bishop is coming after him for his betrayal. This last until they find a vampire Bishop turned who attacks Aiden. Josh stakes her and we are made to believe that part of the story is done.
There is some story with a woman Aiden "loved" back in the day and we later learn that she wasn't at the apartment when Aiden came back for her because something went down between her and Bishop, I assumed they had sex, but it wasn't really clear. Whatever it was, Bishop threatened to kill her family if she ever told Aiden.
Back to Danny, he is extremely at the end of his rope with Sally haunting him and decides to burn down the apartment. Josh and Aiden come home in the middle of the act. Josh grabs the extinguisher and Aiden grabs Danny. Danny learns that they (Josh and Aiden) can see Sally and Aiden bares his fangs, ready to kill Danny. Josh talks him down, but Sally finds the strength to appear to Danny. She tells him "he'll wish he had died." After she gets him to tell the police that he killed Sally, but the officer thinks he is suffering some delusions because he then tells her he is being haunted by his dead fiancée.
We are now watching the three toast (Sally does not have a drink because she's a ghost) to things coming together. And suddenly Sally's door appears. They discuss how its not what she expected and how she wishes she could take her boys with her. We are at a happy ending with only a minute or two left of the episode when a crazed Bishop jumps through the window and stakes Aiden.
(I can assume he didn't stake him in the heart because A) he doesn't turn to dust like the do when they die and B) they have been signed on for a season 2).
Thank you "Being Human" for having the moxie to pull something that daring. This is just a good show!
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