BEING HUMAN “Adam’s Family” Series 3 Episode 2 - This week serves partially as an introduction to Adam, a nasally, sweaty teenager who is also a 46 year old vampire. He survives the episode and heads over to Becoming Human, the online BH spinoff that started airing last night on the BBC Three website.
After finding Adam drinking the blood of his ailing father at the hospital, Nina and George take him in temporarily. But then Adam’s father dies, Mitchell refuses to have anything to do with him, and George and Nina are forced to pass him onto Richard and Emma, a kinky vampire couple who drink from a gimp and host S&M sex parties. Regretting their decision instantly, they get him back and offer to look after him themselves, but Adam decides it’s time he struck out on his own and leaves for a new town and, judging by the spinoff, a college course.
It was pretty standard fare, full of laughs and smutty talk (thanks, Adam), maybe not quite as good as series 1 and possibly series 2, but entertaining nonetheless. When viewed as an introductory episode, it works well, however, and I’ll be keeping an eye on Becoming Human to see how that progresses. I wonder if Adam will lose his pervy come-ons around modern girls?
Annie has assigned herself as Mitchell’s guardian angel, a move which simultaneously hinders and helps his search for work. The job interview was hilarious (as was the later “That’s how you say it!”), but the highlight of the episode for me was Mitchell trying to convince Annie to live life for herself and Annie, quite rightly, explaining that she has no life without Mitchell, George and Nina. When we see the foursome each week as a family unit, especially now that they’re away from the CenSSA debacle, it’s easy to forget that they’re all each other have, that outside of Honolulu Heights they are alone.
It seems Annie’s reminder of this is what caused Mitchell to stay, turning down Richard’s offer of life in South America with the ‘old ones’, ancient vampires. Except that wasn’t really an offer so much as a thinly veiled order, so we can be sure that staying in Barry will bite Mitchell on the ass sooner or later. Let’s not forget, there’s that ‘wolf-shaped bullet’ just waiting to get him…
What does everyone think of the burgeoning Annie/Mitchell romance? I always liked the way Mitchell zeroed in on Annie, dropping all his issues to deal with hers without expecting anything in return, but even that didn’t prepare me for him facing down his own demons to get her out of purgatory. Does he love her? Does she really love him? Perhaps more importantly, how would their relationship work outside of the house? Until Annie’s ‘solid’ once more, Mitchell would, to everyone else, be a crazy guy talking to himself. (On the plus side: at least neither of them have to worry about looking good in photographs.)
Next week deals with a woman who doesn’t know she’s dead. Hopefully this will give us a more Annie-centric episode. ‘Lia’ was very much about Mitchell trying to get to Annie and ‘Adam’s Family’ was about him dealing with yet more aftermath from the Box Car 20 incident; it would be great to get some quality Annie-time in before McNair and son return to, presumably, meddle in George and Nina’s lives.
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