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Being Human - BBC 3 ...I'm rather enjoying it.
Posted by Tony Donaghey on 26 February 2009 - 10:28am.
...the trailer hints at a light comedy and something to miss - but the actual series is really very good and at times very dark. The latest episode on bbc iplayer actually has a cliff hanger which I'm looking forward to seeing how it continues.
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I Would
like to have been able to express an opinion, but SOMEBODY deleted them all from the V+ before I had a chance to watch them!
As am I
Started watching it by accident and I agree, like all good comedies (if that what you would define it) it has a very dark side. This could be a winner
Me too
It's one of the few things on television that I've actually been making an effort to see at the time of broadcast. BBC3 in decent drama shock?
Gave up after episode 1.
Garbage in my opinion.
The good news is ...
... it has been recommissioned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/26/being-human-return-for-secon...
Me? I confess I gave up on the shallow grounds that I didn't fancy any of the women I think I was supposed to, and the werewolf seemed to base his performance on a Lee Evans routine.
Very good it is....
One of the better British programmes over the past 5 years.
Someone has taken a relatively original idea and then had it painstakingly well scripted, casted and acted.
Well crafted and somebody has clearly "made an effort" rather than the "will this do" malaise to tv programming in the UK over the past 10-15 years.
Thoroughly enjoyable
I've just been next door to the iPlayer website,
and they have the whole series ready for me! Yay.
Gonna watch the first one, then if I like it I will download the rest with iPlayer grabber! Gotta love technology!
Right, I'm going back over, see you later.
Vampires & Werewolfs & Ghosts, Oh My!
Cracking telly. Am I right in thinking it's by BBC Wales who also do Dr. Who and Torchwood?
Demons over on ITV seems to be trying to tread similar ground but this is just so much better. For a comedy, the plot is actually very eventful with plenty of suspense, while steering away from being TOO obvious.
I have also dug out the old fingerless gloves.
Mitchell......
Surely the next winner of the Rob Newman lookalike contest and the poster boy for the UK emo scene!
It's the chin...
isn't it? I've not seen him riding a bike to work or presenting a slideshow on the economic foundations of South America, more's the shame.
BBC Wales
From what I can tell it's a lot of the same people from Doctor Who and Torchwood involved in the making of it, but it's in collaboration with a production company which did things such as NY-LON and City of Vice.
http://www.touchpapertv.com/programmes.html
Yes, I Google production companies of TV shows that I like to see who made them and what else they've done.
I like it, but
The pilot they showed last year was darker and much better, I thought, than what I've seen so far of this. The vampire and ghost were played by different actors, rather more convincingly, and it worked extremely well as a one-off setting up the flat-share between werewolf and vampire and gradually revealing that the flat's haunted. The appearance of the legion of vampires at the end, lead by Adrian Lester, gave it a nice cliff-hanger.
From what I've seen so far I don't care enough about what happens to the vampire and ghost, and even the werewolf (excellent Russell Tovey who was also in the pilot) is just a tad too much irritatingly geeky. Ah well.
Gilbert the ghost
Did you see the the episode a fornight ago when our ghost was introduced to Gilbert, the 1980s obsessed ghost?
I think the scriptwriter may have had Stuart Maconie's biographies on his bedsise table.
That was very good....
Referencing Marc and the Mamba's - Torments and Toreadors and he had the killer line when the girl ghost asked him about feeling happy...
"what, like when you find all the Echo and the Bunnymen singles on Japanese import?"
Too good for BBC 3
where it has to put up with being sandwiched between the appalling 'Two Pints' alike 'GrownUps' (who thought it could be any worse than the original?) and 'How Clean Is My Crotch?'
I thought the pilot was okay but not quite there and the series and great improvement.
When you say 'oh its about a ghost, werewolf and vampire living together' people look at you funny but its a cracking series with some nice dark twists and not afraid to kill off characters you thought were there for the long haul.
The head cop vampire does speak like Malcolm Maclaren thou
Not seen 'How clean is my crotch'
Any good?
Its ok
not as good as 'Knife Swap' - where hoodie gangs from London and Liverpool swap gang members and see what happens when they have to learn new gang rules, use different blades and stab people in new and unusual surroundings.*
*all stolen from Adam & Joe
slightly off topic
does anyone know whether i can watch Channel 4 programmes on a MacBook Pro? I'm keen to see Red Riding .
Probably can't.
If you aren't willing to sully your MacBook Pro with a Windows partition (using Boot Camp or somesuch) then you're probably going to have to stick waiting until the DVD comes out. Or non-legal means. Or find someone who has a Windows PC and make friends.
It annoys me too, and I'm on a non-Intel Mac so running Windows isn't going to happen.
cheers Matt
Two thumbs up
for the first episode.
It gets better...
...I didn't know there was a pilot episode - its on You tube so when the series is finished I'll have a look.
I really like it.
It is a fun, entertaining and completely silly programme. I love it.