being human US 1x10 review
This will be the last of the reviews because frankly, I can't drag myself through any more of this show. I tried to muster up any kind of emotion, any feelings of "this isn't that bad" but it was hard. Anyway, onto my notes of this episode and then we're done.
It starts out with Rebecca kicking off with Aidan. Pushing him up against a wall, screaming, crying... over the fact that he mercy-killed Bernie. She says he was the closest thing she had to a son, the closest she would ever get. At which point, I was looking around my room, searching for any kind of sense and logic, considering she said last episode that she turned the kid for Aidan and didn't exactly bond with him herself. She had him for, like, a day and was practically crawling up the walls of the motel, struggling to deal with him. Sure, she held him for a moment, but it wasn't genuine care. She was yelling in his face until Aidan came in and then she was like "oop, playing house, right". I would've preferred it if it was all bullshit and she was only pretending to care (albeit doing a poor job of acting) to guilt-trip him into sticking around, with her and the vampires.
Josh randomly shucking corn on the front steps of the house... you know, like a normal person. It's not like he has a kitchen. But then, oh, yeah, he gets kidnapped. Kidnapping? You know what that means... dog fights! Hal, get your bets out.
Wait... was Aidan wearing a hoodie in an old-timey flashback? No. But it is a bomber jacket looking thing with a zip on it. Not sure if that's time-accurate, but okay.
After a monotonous ten episodes, though, we've reached a thrilling, scary moment: the flashback where the dutch kill Bishop's "maker". "Maker" and "progeny"...
I think this is the third time Sally and Aidan have interacted and every single time has been insignificant. Also, don't know how Sally knew where Josh was, but okay.
I'm sounding like a broken record at this point, but for the sake of a complete review, at least for this episode, I'm gonna be true to myself and what I think by saying Mitchell and Lauren did it better than Aidan and Rebecca and with MUCH less material and time. For one, I actually understand why Lauren would cling to Mitchell. He's funny, he's good-looking, he's cool, he smiles so hard that it reaches his eyes, he's protective, and he knows how to sweet-talk. Even if we never saw all of that when he was with Lauren, we saw it when he was with George and Annie. "She kicked me in the shin. The shin, George!" or his love for The Real Hustle and old comedians. We know NOTHING about Aidan, aside from him being a father in his human life, and it's TEN episodes in. That's ridiculous to me. It's also why I don't understand why Rebecca clings to him and sees him as someone who can support her and be by her side (for better or worse), other than the fact that he's pretty and has a nice voice. All I'm saying is... little personality details and quirks go a long way. This show is too bothered about building Aidan up to be so sexy that it has neglected literally everything else. The moment in the earlier episodes, when he was supposed to invite the neighbours to the house and have the Mitchell arc of that episode, where he's chipper and talks about the appeal of humanity... was completely binned and given to Josh, only for it to go nowhere with him too.
Renouncing Maker ties... YEAH, they've watched True Blood for sure.
A random ass accordion player being in the centre of a pool of betting vampires who are just shouting over her playing... okay. There may as well have been, I don't know, tense silence. The music didn't add to the chaos, it just felt misplaced. Werewolf being tied to a chair as he turns? It's giving... Benicio del Toro as The Wolfman. Also, hate the look of the werewolves in this. So much. There's something off about the design. They look more like big cats, like a lion-wolf mutant, in a really awful way.
The house, trying to be human, it was all Aidan's idea and yet, he's doing SHITE ALL to honour it and participate. It's not even like he's fluctuating between the house and the vampires. He's consistently with the vampires all season, which is kinda worse because they have twice as many episodes as Being Human UK, so you'd think they'd take that opportunity to show his inner turmoil with where he belongs. But no... he's fed off people, he's played lovers with Rebecca, done nothing to protect his so-called best friend and overall, just hasn't bonded with Sally in any capacity. Like, at that point, fuck off? Go and be a vampire with Bishop and Rebecca?
I was really struggling. It's madness. The world-building isn't necessarily the problem, it's the relationships, some of the dialogue, the acting etc. It may be harsh of me to say but the actors may be having fun with the roles because it's a cool job, but they're not actually doing a good job at, you know, delving into their roles and characters. They clock in, do a bit of line-reading, and then they clock out. I hate to say it, but Sally's actress is the worst of them. It's hard to live up to Lenora's performance as Annie, but she just gives NOTHING. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt if it was just this season, but apparently it's just as bad for at least two more seasons.
