‘Being Human’: Series 5 Episode 2 review
In a week where we found out that Series 5 would be Being Human‘s funeral march, it’s fitting that we have an episode which harks back to the show’s beginning.
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In a week where we found out that Series 5 would be Being Human‘s funeral march, it’s fitting that we have an episode which harks back to the show’s beginning.
This is in stark contrast to David Oyelowo’s previous work – Complicit is the anti-Spooks.
Followers of Being Human love it for its deft switches from the morbid to the comic to the mundane.
After the tumultuous events of the last episode, the brakes are applied and the pace is taken down a notch.
What is fascinating is the light Poliakoff shines on the upper classes as we see their actions through the experiences of the band.
Being Human is a programme which delights in a lightness and cheekiness of tone, despite the inevitable body horror.
It’s this sort of rough, tough, lads-on-the-hunt-for-bombs swagger that makes the series so watchable.
However grim Utopia is in parts, there are moments of delightful humour peppered throughout.
Ultimately, Ripper Street works because we’re truly invested in the characters.
Bleak “sci-fi dystopia” anthology series Black Mirror is back and the themes are as harrowing, affecting and as bitingly relevant as before.