Being Human Review: Same Vamps, Different Decade

This week’s Being Human saw the continued separation of our favorite roommates, while their separate life issues kept them from noticing a downward spiral in the house. Sally was forced to confront the truth about her mother, Aidan came face to face with Henry, while Josh dodged the Boston PD’s questions about the death of Nora’s ex.

Josh (Sam Huntington) is looking for Nora (Kristen Hager), and with good reason. She’s been MIA since deciding to hang out with Connor and his sister, the purebred wolf twins who have taken up residence in Boston. It looks like they’ve also helped her, or at least in their wolf form, kill her abusive ex-boyfriend. But now, the police aren’t too keen about Nora having gone missing just after that crime was discovered. So, they question Josh…and start to follow him.

Josh reaches out to Aidan for help, but since he’s still kind of crazy drunk on live blood, he’s really of no use. Josh knows Aidan’s recently turned a female officer on the police force, and wants her to compel everyone to forget his and Nora’s connection to the incident. When Aidan refuses, Josh goes to meet the officer himself, offering the purebloods up as a trade, lying that they were the ones who killed Hegeman. She blows him off, not wanting to get involved in a business dealing with a werewolf. But later, when Josh is cornered by the police in his storage unit, she compels them. Josh makes peace with the twins, letting them know the police problem has been handled. He later gives the vampire officer the address of the purebred twins and returns Hegeman’s silver bullet rifle.

Aidan (Sam Witwer) spends much of this week without Suren (Dichen Lachman), going kind of blood crazy at a den for the orphans, then forcing them to shut it down. He encounters Heinrich (Kyle Schmid) again, going by Henry in this decade. From what we saw last night, live blood drinking in this universe will never be the sexy True Blood or romantic Vampire Diaries style so dominant in stories today. Aidan’s tweaking out like a real addict, pushing for more, but unable to stand at times he’s so lost.  He loses his grip so much that he starts to see his maker Bishop (Mark Pellegrino), who walks him down memory lane.

Throughout the episode, Aidan spends time trying to find Henry, who Bishop wants him to kill. Eventually Henry comes to Aidan and makes it known he’s been helping the orphans because he was orphaned by Aidan in a different way, and just wants to make sure they survive. The two come to blows, and then blood, and then a stake gets in the middle, but Aidan can’t bring himself to end Henry and actually says he wants to make it right with the princess and bring Henry back to the family again.

Sally (Meaghan Rath) learns that her mother’s on her last moments in the hospital when Josh comes across her in a room with her father. She urges Josh to comfort her father, but it’s too late, and her mother passes on and gets to ghost bond with her taken-too-soon daughter. The reunion is short lived when Sally learns her mother has been making out with the ghost of their next door neighbor, which ghosts do as kind of a conjoined, distorted fog-like version of themselves.

The two try and have a civil sit down with Sally and her roommates to explain their relationship, but Sally isn’t ready to grasp how her mother could spend her life with her father yet love someone else the entire time. Her mother finally admits that she failed her when she was alive, and doesn’t know that she can handle failing her again now.

What a downer this week was for everyone! I’ve said before that I missed the fun inter-roommate banter around the house, and it’s getting to a point where I yearn for it to break up the misery everyone seems to be going through simultaneously. I can’t imagine it’s a road that’s going to get any easier anytime soon.

Nora probably isn’t going to react to fondly to Josh selling out her new friends to the vampires. Sally is as lost as ever, now without her ghostly mother and still haunted by the creepy dark fog monster ghost from her dream door. Aidan, well, even if Suren welcomes Henry back without much of the massacre from their last meeting, he’s still got a Number Six-like Bishop in his head thanks to his recent fall off the blood sobriety wagon.

Season 2, Episode 6: “Mama Said There’d Be Decades Like This” (originally aired February 20, 2012)

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