‘Being Human’: Series 5 Episode 1 review
Being Human is a programme which delights in a lightness and cheekiness of tone, despite the inevitable body horror.
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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.
It’s still not perfect, but the dialogue is becoming less clunky on the whole; the exposition less obvious.
It might be a bit of sensational, pulpy fun but Ripper Street is very slickly done.
We should be thankful that this special and crazy adventure ends on its own terms and in such a satisfying way.
It may look different, but the crucial DNA of Series 1 persists.
How Fringe will really end remains something that we can only speculate about.