Parenting, family values and teenage crushes ? the supernatural drama shows us its tender side as well as some bloodlust
SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who are watching Being Human on BBC3. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode two
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Adam's Family
The one where ? the gang meet an orphaned teenage vampire; Annie assigns herself as Mitchell's guardian angel but clearly wants more; we discover a novel way for vamps to quench their bloodlust.
"You're a 46-year-old vampire who dresses like a child ? don't call her freaky"
Remember back in series one when Mitchell reluctantly recruited that little boy rather than let him die? Well Adam's Family doesn't continue that story at all, but it does raise the question: "What about the poor vampire children?". It's another thing to love about Being Human. At its heart (and its heart is buried quite deep) this episode is a rather tender story about parenting and what to do about Adam.
With their 16-year-old recruited in the early 80s, Adam's parents fail their child in never allowing him to find his own way. Sure, their actions probably prevented plenty of civilian massacres, but they also left Adam ill-equipped to walk the world alone. At the other end of the scale we have Richard and Emma the vampire ancients; their happy, permissive foster home revealed as a pit of sexual degradation behind the picket fencing. (Emma insisting on putting newspaper down before having a werewolf sit on her nice sofa was a nice touch).
In the end, it takes our Scooby Doo -style gang a single day to work it out, letting him go with their true example of family and friendship to keep his bloodlust in check. In another exceptional week for guest stars, Craig Roberts as Adam is clearly a huge talent, expertly navigating the 40-year-old virgin in the body of a teenage boy and able to turn from bravado to real tearjerking as his father dies. You'll see more of him in online spinoff Becoming Human ? check back to the site on Monday for more info on that. And with George and Nina slotting rather cutely into loco parentis, might there be some truth in last week's speculation that we could meet a wolf cub before the series is out?
Elsewhere, praise be for the jittery, people-pleasing Annie ? she's back! And in our own unique way, she's hot for some Mitchell fang. "And I need to iron your free paper. I'm not sure why, but I saw it on House of Eliot." I'm not even going to ask.
Supernature
We learn even more about vampire society from Richard and Emma, the elder, elite vampires. "Is it true how they live, all that hardcore Hammer Horror shot, sleeping in coffins and avoiding sunlight?" No Mitchell, they pertain to morality by not killing, but recruiting "fang bang" fantasists to surrender themselves as gimps in cellars. Times evidently change.
Pop culture notes
Adam brings a whole new meaning to the phrase arrested development as his out-of-date references pile up. A girl he fancies looks like one of faux-hippy girl group The Bangles; he's deflated at his Dad because "If we move now I'll never get to see her norks." And in his mind, the Blue Peter dog is still Goldie.
Mysteries
No McNair and Son this week but Lia's prophesy is still hanging heavy over Mitchell as the BBC Wales Sports reporter speaks to him (in what we presume is just a vision) poo-pooing his dismissal of the werewolf-shaped bullet as mindgames. "He won't be saying that when he has his throat ripped out, Mitchell's gonna get got."
And whose is that bloodied hand clambering up in the bowels of the hospital?
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