This was a slow but groovy episode of Being Human and everyone needs love. We flash back and forth between the 60s and now, between Mitchel’s first try at abstinence and now, between the love that he needed then and the one he needs now.  You have to love Mitch hairstyle!

Mitchell is getting closer to Lucy and she, in turn, is struggling to contain her feelings for Mitchell, as the drama following the lives of three housemates who happen to be a werewolf, a ghost and a vampire continues.

Mitchell has only really fallen in love once before and, in a flashback to the Sixties, viewers learn how his relationship with Josie saved him from the excesses of vampiredom. Back in the present with Lucy, it’s clear he’s struggling to reconcile the difference between human love and vampire lust.

Meanwhile, George’s relationship with Sam and her daughter, Molly, is going well and George wonders if there might be a chance to make the most of this normal human relationship – could he become Molly’s step-father?

Annie experiences parental feelings of her own when she’s asked to babysit an unusual child…

This episode was a bit slow, lots of dialog that develops the characters, but also a bit dull compared to the earlier action packed episodes of season two.

It started out strong with Mitch waking up covered in blood and with a magnificent hair, looking lost. But then is slowed down. There was some actions spots with the Police but otherwise intrigue, love and intrigue.

Annie got to show her awesome babysitting skills as a ghost mother drops off her baby for two hours. George really takes to the kid, he goes off in dreams of normality a family with Sam and her daughter Molly, that seems slightly unbelievable since last episode he barely could keep the wolf inside him. George where is your contact with reality? (Ha). Anyway Annie trying to babysit was very entertaining.

The sinister professor and Lucy will start to make more sense here. Mitch have a date with Lucy a quiet dinner at her place planed, but she have plans he don’t know about.

They all want love…

All in all a decent info dump of an episode but far from the best they have done.

There are eight episodes in the second season which leave us with three to go.

Good episode this week. George is a bit stressed out with life now with Nina gone and all. So he makes a list, get a cage – check, get tranquilizers to fell a horse – check, get a real job – check, and suppress the wolf – check. So he gets lycantropic Torrels and meets a new girlfriend both not on the list.

Mitchel is the new king and he has some success in double standards as he starts the vampire AA.

They don’t know the threat they are under. Nina is in the clutches of the mysterious professor Kent and Mitch latest female interest Professor Lucy Janet. We learn more about their backstory.

Annie is ambushed by another dead spirit trying to drag her into the light. But she is saved at the last minute by a world war 2 sergeant. His name is Sikes. Anne tries to make him teach her how to defend against the powers that tries to take her away.

One funny moment is when the black smith thinks George wants a sex cage and throws in a pair of handcuffs for  free.

Mitchel is trying to patch things up with Dr Lucy, as he knows her, and I think she starts to soften to him even in her secret identity.

In many ways this is the calm before the storm, pressure is  building to its ultimately climax in two more episodes. God I love this series, watch it now.

What’s chilly about WE is the future it paints. The Story:

We are the only Humans left…

In the furthest, coldest, darkest reaches of our solar system, Paul Munro is on a mission from which he can never return. A desolate ice-covered moon will be his home for the rest of his life. And only from here can he see what humanity has become.

A thriller to freeze your blood. To absolute zero.

I bought this after reading Mark Chitty’s excellent review (link below) and it lived up to my expectations. This is one of the best science fiction books i have read in a  long time.

Earth is a world where everyone is online, all the time, with brain implants that assist them in everything they do. Every decision they make is habitually done by asking the net for advise. And no one living in the wired society reflects over the situation. They never knew anything else.

It takes an eight year trip to an icy moon around Jupiter and four humans alone, cut off from Earth to rediscover what it  means to be human. This is a recurring theme of our times (not for the first time in history),  what it  means to be human, there is even a British TV show called “Being human” from a  fantasy perspective. There are many issues with technologies and life sciences today and in the near future that can hold a Damocles’ Sword of Change over our heads, but I never suspected Social Media of being one of them. I understand now that I was wrong, it do have the potential.

But there is more than one terrifying secret lurking for our protagonist.

Masterful world building and characters that are lifelike, with motivations you understand and can relate to. There is a scene, when Paul the main character cry for the first time and he can’t  understand what  it is, that is really moving.

WE is a masterful story of discovery and revelation on so many levels that you have to read it, it relates to everything we are today.

Other relevant blog reviews:
- by Mark Chitty on Walker of Worlds: Review | WE by John Dickinson (David Fickling Books) his review inspired me to buy WE
- by Rob Grant on The Disgruntled
Writer W.E.

George is miserable since Nina disappeared (taken by the mysterious professor that tries to ‘cure’ werewolves in that pressure chamber) and Annie is fed up with the boys not doing their share in the household. She calls for a house meeting that interesting enough result in an show of male problem solving. “We should go out and get hammered”. Amusing, not to Annie though. That male problem solving comes again  as George tries to relate to Hugh’s misery when he finds out Annie is ‘gone’.

There is two main story lines in this episode One: Mitchel trying to keep the vampires hidden and Two: Annie and George trying to help Hugh get back together with his ex girlfriend. He still has feelings for her.

The vampire killings continue as a young couple is found mangled in a park, unfortunately one victim survives and are taken to the hospital where Mitch and George work. Mitchel have to compromise with his integrity to avoid exposing vampire existence to the public. He has to bring some order and deal with the unruly vampire population now that the old king is dead. But will he be able to stick to his morals? Will the end justify the means?

Annie is back to being a ‘normal’ ghost. Normal humans can’t see her any more, that unfortunately means Hugh can’t see her any more either. George and Annie tries to help Hugh get back with his old girlfriend since he can’t see Annie any more. It’s very entertaining the way they go about it.

I like this episode, it builds up for things that will come the rest of the season. There is also a major revelation at the very end of the episode.

Opening Scene, Vienna 1999, Mitchel is bound to a chair, in agony. “Hold out”, says his  friend.

Annie is entertaining her new serendipitous boyfriend Soul and her new boss Hugh. Mitch is being inappropriate awkward with his new girl interest at the hospital. One of the men from Vienna lies on the slate in the morgue exsanguinated.

Soul is having interesting visions. He almost died in a car accident and now he talks to people on the telly. Hugh also has a crush on Annie, there is some ugly tension between him and  Soul.

It’s quite cute when George gets jealous on the people Mitch have been living with before.

The mystical professor that bugged their house last episode is up to no good, now he might snatch George for the next full moon experiments. Or someone else.

Season two is quite intense. Big bad vampire boyfriend have a small talk with George, who tells him of his great love for Nina, smart. Especially since he is screwing the vampire’s girlfriend.

Annie, Mitch and George has a wonderful problem solving session about half way into the episode. The True Bloodish discussion about reveling vampires to the world was another high point.

There is so much happening  in each episode this season. I guess it’s catering to the Americans that where complaining season one was too slow. Just hope they don’t go all Spooks on us and kill off people you started to like.

Episode One

Last season George’s girl friend Nina got scratched by him and she haven’t told him yet.

George get ambushed by two vampires and Mitchel saves him. This is the third time. Vampire society is out to get him for being a King slayer. An old friend of Mitchel is in town to amuse himself with the power struggle left by the Kings demise.

Mitch is struggling with being human, taking a janitor job at the hospital where he meets this cute doctor. Hope it doesn’t goes bad like last time, when he killed his date.

There is also the morbid professor that experiments on lycans, the one from the end of season one.

Nina is a werewolf and she hates is, Annie knows and and try to get her to tell George. But she refuses. George doesn’t take it well when she finally tell him.

The female vampire that lured him into the ambush in the beginning is messing with Georges mind. George is weak, or is he? He messes her mind right back.

A good episode I am looking forward to the rest of the season.

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