Oh boy... this is where it all goes wrong...this is where Being Human begins to fail.
Between series Nina has been killed, as has the old one who showed up at the end of the previous series who looked like he was going to be an interesting villain. The series starts with Tom begging to move in with George and Annie. George now has a baby and has gone mad with paranoia over vampire attacks, and has protected his and Nina's baby with a bunch of crosses... despite being Jewish... so him using crosses makes no sense... Anyway he's captured by the vampires and forces a change into a werewolf to save his baby and dies as a result, there is now only one of the original cast left. A new vampire moves in; Hal, an old one, whose previous werewolf and ghost housemates died and moved on to the other side. Hal is a total pussy and I hate him... a bunch of stuff happens, none of it interesting, they meet a sucubus and the young vampire from the previous series shows up. Then at the end the plot finally remembers to happen and Mark Gatiss shows up as an old one, who wants to take George and Nina's baby as his own, because if she dies then it fulfils a prophecy or some shit. Annie blows up Mark Gatiss and the baby and passes over; oh also Hal is responsible for the death of a girl named Alex, and she is the new ghost... but no-one cares.
Now while the loss of Nina and George was a choice of the actors and not the writers it still feels shit to lose them without any decent build up or emotional pay off, like when Mitchell died and the replacements, in the shape of Hal and Tom are both awful. Hal's emotional turmoil just comes off as whiny with occasional lip quivering... Tom is much to naive and goody-two shoesish to be of any interest. So the cast dynamic just doesn't fit.
Before this in Being Human death was always a big deal, characters rarely killed, and when they did it was enough to drive them mad with guilt. Now they treat it like an action film, where killing vampires left right and centre is cool, so all the emotional impact is gone.
The plot is also completely not Being Human style, with all this end of the world prophecies bullshit and whatnot, before it was always small emotional stories, that was about characters personal responses to little tragedies and not about trying to save the world from the boring apocalypse. Then Mark Gatiss shows up and chews the scenery and you think maybe there's something salvageable from this whole mess, but then they kill him and all hope dies.
In short, just awful, they ruined it and it will never be fixed.
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