Being Human
Jul. 5th, 2009 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrA six part British series about a vampire, a werewolf and ghost living in a house together, and is basically a cross between Spaced and Ultraviolet, flipping from charming everyday-life humour to tense, whack you in the chest fantasy/horror/thriller/drama in turns.
Overall I really liked it, it was actually a thoughtful exploration of what it would really be like to be kind of dead and not human, but still..kind of human too (rather than "ooh, aren't vampires scary/sexy?" Which is not to say they weren't that too, sometimes :)). Gender roles were a bit skeevy in parts but didn't piss me off in the end as much as I thought they would. It was very intense and succinct, I think I would have enjoyed it more slightly more stretched out, as it was I had to take a break in the middle of every episode to climb down from the edge of my seat.
There is apparently a pilot with a slightly different cast.
Overall I really liked it, it was actually a thoughtful exploration of what it would really be like to be kind of dead and not human, but still..kind of human too (rather than "ooh, aren't vampires scary/sexy?" Which is not to say they weren't that too, sometimes :)). Gender roles were a bit skeevy in parts but didn't piss me off in the end as much as I thought they would. It was very intense and succinct, I think I would have enjoyed it more slightly more stretched out, as it was I had to take a break in the middle of every episode to climb down from the edge of my seat.
There is apparently a pilot with a slightly different cast.
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Date: 2009-07-06 08:01 am (UTC)