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I've been renting "Being Human" (http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/369/being-human-about-the-show.jsp) from Netflix and started watching it on BBC America. Much preferred to "TrueBlood" for me as TB seems to be wandering into S&M. It is interesting to contrast them since they contain some of the same rubrics: vampires, werewolves, public acceptance of the same.
"Being Human" is PG rated compared to "TrueBlood", but that isn't why I prefer it. The premise does sound like a joke, the equivalent of the old witticisms that start "a priest, a rabbi, and a minister..." In this case, we have a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing an apartment. It has more of the BBC's ease with race, even though I grant you--they have given us the standard creme brulee Black woman in Annie. Tara on TB is Black--no 'is she, is she not' question there. But I haven't had to watch Annie become a sex addict, be raped by vampies, or be beaten senseless by every one of her lovers. In fact, I haven't had to question her common sense in her choice of lovers--even when she is proved wrong. I could do a similar contrast with BH's Mitchell character and the Bill character on TB. Both are supposedly struggling with their natures. But I've never liked Bill. He and his now deceased maker deserved each other.
On BH, the characters are fighting to remain human. Meanwhile on TB, the characters are circling the drain as far as humanity is concerned.
"Being Human" is PG rated compared to "TrueBlood", but that isn't why I prefer it. The premise does sound like a joke, the equivalent of the old witticisms that start "a priest, a rabbi, and a minister..." In this case, we have a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing an apartment. It has more of the BBC's ease with race, even though I grant you--they have given us the standard creme brulee Black woman in Annie. Tara on TB is Black--no 'is she, is she not' question there. But I haven't had to watch Annie become a sex addict, be raped by vampies, or be beaten senseless by every one of her lovers. In fact, I haven't had to question her common sense in her choice of lovers--even when she is proved wrong. I could do a similar contrast with BH's Mitchell character and the Bill character on TB. Both are supposedly struggling with their natures. But I've never liked Bill. He and his now deceased maker deserved each other.
On BH, the characters are fighting to remain human. Meanwhile on TB, the characters are circling the drain as far as humanity is concerned.
