Being Human: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

by Alexander “Home Skillet” Ko 

Being. Human. Week. TWO!!

I’m excited to see where the Show takes us this season and good catch by Jenn Kim; we have Dichen Lachman (recently of Dollhouse; JK notices everything in and around Wedon-verse) casted as Mother’s Daughter (Suren).   This reminded me of an interesting Grantland article regarding the heavy usage of actors by HBO.

Let’s attack this week outline style.

Points of Interest (in my particular order):

1. Nora becomes the wolf and kills Hegemann AND miscarries.  I’m 100% I have never had as bad a day as her.  To all this she responds, “I’m a little shaky.”
2. Sally goes “raging”?
3. Aidan having some sort of dark twisted history with Suren.

POI#1:

I never, almost never, would proclaim to be a fantastic boyfriend, but C’MON JOSH.  Guilting Nora to attend the med school mixer after she 1. discovers she’s a werewolf; 2. kills a centuries-old vampire; and 3. loses her unborn child.  Granted, at the time, Josh was only aware Nora had knowledge of 1 out of the 3, but becoming a werewolf is most likely outweighs any fun to be had by binge-drinking with med school students in khakis (something I can attest to).   The biggest loss is now we’ll never know if there would have been some next-gen-hybrid were-child.   The Nora/Josh relationship dynamic is something of a guilty pleasure and I can’t wait for more! (Downton Abbey, another guilty pleasure)  It’s ok, Josh, us guys have all made those dumb mistakes.  Nora will take you back, even if Jenn Kim won’t!

POI#2

Perhaps it’s the lack of established ghost-dogma, but the Show is starting to push the boundaries of feasibility and believability with the extent of Sally’s powers.  Where is the accountability!?  The monster-power commissioner may need to make a ruling here.  Prior gripes focus on Sally being intangible yet being able to sit and walk.  This week we see Sally make some new ghost-friends which is always nice for lonely ghosts.  However, her crew ends up being less Casper and more three pubescent boy-ghosts who introduce Sally to a new power: body snatching!  The addiction theme comes to the front as Sally gets to “feel” again and against the advice of Charlie; Sally takes to body-snatching like a high school senior takes to Mike’s Hard Lemonade at a house party.  Unfortunately, there’s a sad ending to Sally’s party-rocking and all is not LMFAO as we see an attempted sexual assault and ghost-murder.  Let’s hope we learn more of this double dying going forward and I hope we get some more continuity with Sally’s storylines with Danny out of the picture now.  Where did Charlie go?

POI#3

Formulaic Aidan, very formulaic.  Last season we lose Bishop, Aidan’s cold, calculating foil only to be replaced by Suren, Mother’s daughter.  So far, we’re seeing glimpses of 1920-1930ish flashbacks.  Suren states she’s been buried for 80 years and hints are some dirty laundry with Aidan.  I can’t help myself, I WANT TO KNOW!  Also last year, we lose Rebecca, Aidan’s conflicted love interest only to be replaced by lovely Julia who just happens to be interviewing for residency.  Will we see more of Julia?  If the formula holds true, we will and sometimes that’s not such a bad thing.

Closing thoughts:

Apparently, Nora remembers things from being the Wolf.  Are there going to be different rules applied to female-were-wolves? were-bitches? fem-weres?!?!  Anyone have any knowledge of lady were-wolves?  I can only recall the male variety.

Suren covering up the death of Hegemann, helping Aidan and effectively dismissing mini-Dutch.  Josh and Aidan’s friendship will be strained and will be one of the big storylines in Season 2.  Mother isn’t going to be happy, and you know what happens when Mommy is mad…

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