After eight weeks, eight reviews, multiple new housemates and, yes, a surprising amount of positivity, it’s time for the Being Human finale review. What will happen? Will it be exactly what I’ve been predicting for the past three weeks, or merely a bit like it? And, more to the point, are there … [Read more...]
Being Human: Making History – Dork Review
It’s nearly all over for new Being Human, not to mention human civilisation, by the look of things. The Old Ones are coming, a future ghost version of Eve is kicking around, Hal has accidentally drunk some Evil Juice that turns him immediately Evil, it’s all going down this week. So what does … [Read more...]
Being Human: Puppy Love – Dork Review
This week on Being Human, love is in the air. And not just for werewolf Tom, as hinted brutally by the episode title, but even Hal is making a neurotic, confused attempt. Well, “making an attempt” might be misleading; it seems to be forced upon him. Nonetheless, romance is blooming. But is it … [Read more...]
Being Human: Hold The Front Page – Dork Review
It’s hormones and cross-age antics in this week’s Being Human, as Adam The 47-Year Old Teenage Vampire returns to blur the line between adolescence and middle age. Last week’s episode was a bit disappointing, to tell the truth, so will some dirty jokes from reliable old Adam get us back on … [Read more...]
Being Human: A Spectre Calls – Dork Review
After a few weeks of new Being Human cast bonding, with relatively little danger, it’s time for them to face their first actual threat. Can’t really dispute their logic– much as I enjoy the housemate banter, this isn’t a sitcom. So, here comes a manipulative ghost from the 1970s. But is the … [Read more...]
Being Human: The Graveyard Shift – Dork Review
After last week’s semi-pilot for new-look Being Human, this week it’s time to get on with life. And, for poor Vampire Hal, that means getting a job and joining the 9-5 grind so he can help keep baby Eve in nappies. Thank god Being Human’s vampires don’t burst into flames in sunlight, or these … [Read more...]
Being Human: Eve Of The War – Dork Review
They’re back! The vampire/ghost/werewolf flatshare drama Being Human is on BBC Three again, but a lot has changed. Well, not for Annie the ghost, she’s still dead, but everything else OH MY GOD. Like many British dramas before them, Being Human are throwing out the baby, the bathwater, the bath and … [Read more...]
Being Human: Russell Tovey’s “Wall of Tovey”
Russell Tovey content will follow this brief intro: While Toby's busy working on a review of Daddy Ghoul, the most recent episode of Being Human, we've been wandering around the Beeb's official Being Human website, and it seems there is much additional Tovey face-time to be had. In this video, … [Read more...]
Being Human: Series 3, Episode 1 – Dork Adore
The third series of Being Human, the BBC’s #1 supernatural houseshare comedy-drama, begins. And they’ve got a cliffhanger to follow up from last year, a new setting to launch and more werewolves than a whole shop full of cheap horror DVDs. Suddenly, the series has also started attracting a much … [Read more...]