‘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.
If there’s one thing horror movies have taught us, it’s that you really shouldn’t take people at face value.
This is in stark contrast to David Oyelowo’s previous work – Complicit is the anti-Spooks.
There’s a point in many circus acts when the ringmaster, introducing the next death-defying act, calls for absolute silence, warning that even the slightest slip or miscalculation could result in injury, dismemberment, or even death. There’s no chance of that in Circus of Horrors, and not just because it’s a couple of hours of lots of sound and fury.
Three years on from Funny People, Judd Apatow has returned to the director’s chair with this take on the mid-life crisis.
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.