Being Human: Series 2 (2010)

It's only a few short months since I finished watching series 1 of Being Human after it was shown on BBC1, and I was eager to see series 2 as it went out on BBC3 (I've only had digital TV for 12 months!) and now the second series has just finished I want more!

It was great to be back with George, Mitchell and Annie in their cosy house in Bristol, although this series things turned a bit darker and less comedic than previously. There were still many moments of pleasingly British touches to the sci-fi canon - one minute Mitchell may be slaughtering people  in a scarily-directed train carriage scene, and the next he's rubbing his body with a men's magazine to utilise the free deodorant pages! Being Human is great at grounding the supernatural with the humdrum existence of a life in middle England. 

I've very much warmed to Annie and she's become my favourite of the main trio - she's become more powerful, been visible and then not, and escaped the afterlife several times, all while wearing the same grey-coloured outfit. When she was visible there was a great storyline involving her becoming a barmaid at the local (empty) pub, which involved an ex-Spooks actor who was talked to through his TV by none-other than Sir Terry Wogan! Very surreal.

After George turned Nina into a werewolf last series he went off the rails a bit, suffered a bout of Tourette's and had to deal with some serious anger-management issues. And then when Nina left he jumped right into a relationship with a lovely woman who was completely wrong for him. I wasn't that satisfied with this aspect of George's series 2 'arc', but George is always reliably funny.

George and Mitchell's love for The Real Hustle was a great running gag this series, although Mitchell had most of the dark stuff this time, as he did last time I suppose. This year we got to see more of Mitchell's past in flashback sequences that amused and repulsed in equal measure, and everything went a bit Angelus by the end of the 8 episodes when the good vampire fell off the wagon after his love interest turned out to be the series' Big Bad. Well, ok, she wasn't as bad as the creepy, God-bothering bloke who claimed to want to heal George and Nina. 

Thankfully, what with all the cuts the BBC is planning to make, a 3rd series has already been commissioned, but it's going to be a loooong wait until 2011. Boo!