{"id":20780,"date":"2012-02-13T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=20780"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:06:06","slug":"being-human-series-4-episode-2-being-human-1955-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/being-human-series-4-episode-2-being-human-1955-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Human Series 4 Episode 2 &#8216;Being Human 1955&#8217; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20782\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"being-human\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human-616x462.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Being Human<\/em> series 4 episode 2, Being Human 1955, aired on Feb 12th on BBC Three at 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5 stars<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only taken two episodes to usher the old cast to the \u2018other side\u2019 and establish a new order at Honolulu Heights. The second installment managed to cram in plenty of humour, mostly from Annie (Lenora Crichlow) and her commandments &#8211; \u201cI need to add another one: don\u2019t hide stakes in my shrubbery!\u201d \u2013 and her holier-than-thou act as guardian of the \u2018chosen one\u2019. The improvised ceremony was a highlight, if a little similar to last week\u2019s, with Annie faking Latin by quoting Star Wars, song lyrics and designer labels.<\/p>\n<p>Tom (Michael Socha), as ever, is a joy to watch and the stark juxtaposition between his streetwise werewolf and Hal\u2019s (Damien Molony) upper class vampire is going to be a great source of entertainment in the coming weeks. It\u2019s somewhat of a relief that this relationship can really get going now that Leo and Pearl have crossed over. Thankfully, there\u2019s only room for one spectral tea-making neurotic.<\/p>\n<p>The vampire threat was pushed to the side of the jokes and banter this week, but we discover that both Cutler (Andrew Gower) and Fergus (Anthony Flanagan) survived last week\u2019s massacre. They make an interesting pair, with Cutler holding a focus group of homeless people to gather their reactions to supernatural beings and becoming amusingly frustrated when Fergus slaughters them all. \u201cWe don\u2019t need a vampire Peter Mendelssohn,\u201d spits Fergus. \u201cDid you mean \u2018Mandelson\u2019, or are you calling me a 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century German composer,\u201d comes Cutler\u2019s sneering retort.<\/p>\n<p>No one\u2019s the best of friends yet, with Annie acting more like a motherly figure to her new house guests and, more understandably, to baby Eve. However, there are glimpses of what\u2019s to come with Hal saving Tom\u2019s hairy hide in the pawnshop and Tom returning the favour when he holds Hal back from killing a human. It&#8217;s a mix that works and will surely silence any worries the fans had before the series started.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think? Leave your comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Human establishes its new players in a four-star second episode *SPOILER ALERT*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":20782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,140,207],"tags":[248,2471],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/being-human.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}