Vampire stories have existed for over a century, with various mediums covering various icons of undead bloodsucking. Whether they’re funny, frightening, or somewhere attractively in between, vampire stories are too good to pass up. So if you’re looking to hang out with these creatures of the night, check out this list of the best vampire movies and TV shows! (Sorry Twilight fans, you didn’t make the cut.)

The Lost Boys (1987)

One of the best ‘80s movies ever, The Lost Boys introduced us to David (Kiefer Sutherland), the Peter Pan of vampires. Director Joel Schumacher’s horror-comedy kept vampires terrifying, while also adding the attractive allure that we’ve seen repeated throughout various incarnations. Not to mention, this has one of the best final punchlines a movie has ever landed.

True Blood (2008 - 2014)

Adapting Charlaine Harris’ novels revolving around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), True Blood is an HBO hit that fans still reflect upon. By the end of its seven-season run, the small town of Bon Temps encountered sultry romance, dark comedy, and terror at the hands of werewolves, fairies, and witches. But the bedrock of this series has always been the social commentary told in a world where vampires are widely acknowledged…and are naturally persecuted.

Interview With The Vampire (1994)

For a performer as versatile as Tom Cruise happens to be, it’s still a disappointment that he was never given the chance to return to the role of Lestat de Lioncourt. Interview with the Vampire’s 1994 film adaptation saw Brad Pitt play the forlorn Louis de Pointe du Lac to Cruise’s chaotic sadist, and the contrast is amazing to watch in action. Also, Kirsten Dunst lands one hell of a breakout performance as Claudia, making this disturbing vampire family complete.

Fright Night (1985)

Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) was your typical ‘80s movie teenager…until Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) moved into the neighborhood. Director Tom Holland’s vampire classic shows us what happens when a dopey teen squares off with a seductive yet sinister supernatural force; and it doesn’t skimp on the blood or the comedy in the process.

What We Do In The Shadows (2019 - 2024)

Six seasons still doesn’t feel enough for FX’s What We Do in the Shadows adaptation. Expanding Taika Waititi’s 2014 mockumentary into an extended universe of lunacy, following Long Island’s found family of fang bearers (and Harvey Guillén’s Guillermo) became one of those rare cases where the TV version outdid the source film it was based on. From its humble origins, straight through to What We Do in the Shadows’ perfect series finale, the series was a consistently funny delight.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Much as 2024’s Nosferatu strived to be a more modern adaptation of F.W. Murnau’s classic mockbuster, 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula gave fans fresh blood when telling this time-worn classic. Gary Oldman plays the Francis Ford Coppola-directed spin on this character as both a tragic romantic and a vicious adversary.

Dark Shadows (1991)

Reinventing the classic ABC soap opera as a darker, moodier affair, the short-lived NBC revival of Dark Shadows tried to make a name for itself in 1991. As Ben Cross stepped into the iconic role of Barnabas Collins, it’s miles away from the 2012 Tim Burton adaptation, which turned the more gothically inclined story into a silly comedy. It probably didn't help that this dramatic reimagining was staked after a short first season.

Shadow Of The Vampire (2000)

Decades before Willem Dafoe would play for the human team in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, the Academy Award nominee actually dipped his fangs into the legendary off-brand remake of Dracula through Shadow of the Vampire. A dark comedy that shows us the “real story” behind F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) and his horror milestone, the plot alleges that Dafoe’s Max Schreck was an actual vampire/movie-making diva.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003)

Joss Whedon’s horror/comedy cult classic found a second life as a seven-season TV series, with Sarah Michelle Gellar embodying a more grounded incarnation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The tone wasn’t the only improvement, as some of the best Buffy episodes experimented with form, and gave us impressive guest stars like John Ritter and a pre-fame Pedro Pascal. It was also one of the most effective heartbreakers, thanks to some deaths and romances that didn’t always involve the undead.

Nosferatu (2024)

Robert Eggers is a modern horror master that understands the classics. His 2024 adaptation of Nosferatu proved that fact yet again, thanks to a new spin on director F. W. Murneau’s bootleg classic. Despite Bill Skarsgard’s gross-out latex stories and Count Orlock looking quite imposing, his would-be romance with Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) is as haunting as it is intriguing.

The Strain (2014 - 2017)

Co-creators Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan created a horror literary hit with their trilogy of books telling the story of The Strain. So when it came time to adapt the series to TV, FX gave it a four-season epic that covered this apocalypse from its very beginning. Dishing out vampire lore, while giving us intriguing characters on both sides of the conflict, the tale even gave us one of Stephen King’s favorite TV monster hunters!

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

It sucks that the big twist of Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn kind of needs to be spoiled in instances like this. What begins as a crime thriller that sees the Gecko Brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) kidnapping a family as cover for their escape to Mexico turns into something much more deadly. I’m not going to say it’s vampires, but if you know this list, or even know this movie, you know what’s up.

Midnight Mass (2021)

Creator Mike Flanagan delivered an opus of horror and humanity in the Netflix limited series Midnight Mass. “Transformation” is the one word this story could be boiled down to, as the mysterious Father Paul Hill (Hamish Linklater) arrives on Crockett Island just as some interesting occurrences start to take shape. You can expect to be frightened, but don’t be surprised if you end up crying here and there.

Let The Right One In (2008)

A methodically haunting film, Let The Right One In is a vampire movie on its surface. As bullied loner Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) starts to strike up a friendship with Eli (Lina Leandersson), their deepening connection leads to an unintended web of death. But the more you look under the surface of author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s screenplay adapting his own book, the more you’ll see the subtle mix between the disturbing and the melancholic.

Angel (1999 - 2004)

It’s rare that a spinoff can pack as much of a punch as its predecessor, but Angel managed to do just that. The David Boreanaz-led offshoot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer was cut short at the end of Season 5, despite co-star James Marsters noting Angel’s huge audience spike. So if you’re ready for a noir-tinged L.A. adventure that ends rather abruptly, look no further.

Van Helsing (2004)

What do you do when you’ve landed two successful Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser? Well, if you’re director Stephen Sommers, you try your hand at the rest of the Universal Monsters universe in one fell swoop with a movie like Van Helsing. With Hugh Jackman playing a variant of the titular legendary vampire hunter, there are all sorts of creatures that he has to contend with; leading to an adventure that’s just as blood-pumping and hysterical as The Mummy.

Castlevania (2017 - 2021)

Netflix’s adaptation of the Konami video game Castlevania didn’t have to go that hard. And yet, the religious overtones and painted blood both flowed as Dracula himself tried to start a reign of terror in Romania. A terrific video game adaptation, and a hell of a cartoon, the legacy continues in a follow-up series, Castlevania: Nocturne.

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (2023)

It took decades for The Last Voyage of the Demeter to finally become a reality. Focusing on the chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in which the vampiric menace makes his crossing to England, this ensemble horror show is a beautiful slow burn. Audiences may not have dug this one upon initial release, but director André Øvredal’s richly drawn nightmare is ripe to be discovered by audiences in the mood for something underrated.

The Munsters (1964 - 1966)

Yes, The Munsters technically counts as a vampire show. With Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) and Grandpa (Al Lewis) making up the fanged contingent of the family, their misadventures with the lovably dopey creature Herman (Fred Gwynne) made for a memorable TV sitcom. And to think, between the debuts of The Addams Family and Batman, network execs somehow thought there wasn’t room for this monstrous slice of life.

Blade II (2002)

People might see the first two Blade movies as interchangeable on a list like this. They’d be wrong, because while Wesley Snipes’ origin story in the Marvel Comics universe is impressive, Blade II really makes him sing. Director Guillermo del Toro not only got to sort of test out his vampires for The Strain through the designs of the Reapers, he also gave us scenes between Snipes and Ron Perlman that only make the action even more...exciting.

Being Human (2008 - 2013)

Can a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf truly live together? That might sound like the setup to a joke, but the BBC series Being Human did ask, and answer, that very question through five seasons. With the vampire part of the equation being filled by John Mitchell (Aidan Turner) and later Hal Yorke (Damien Molony), creator Toby Whitehouse’s show would eventually be remade in the US, with none of the casting switch-ups of its source material.

Abigail (2024)

Radio Silence’s abilities with comedy and horror are cranked up and given fangs in Abigail. As a bunch of amateur kidnappers wander into a job where they have to grab and babysit a 12-year-old girl (Alisha Weir), the tables soon turn as this older-than-she-looks menace hunts her would-be captors. If you’re looking for more Kevin Durand vampire action, fans of The Strain should give this flick a spin.

Rosario + Vampire (2008)

Vampires can be rather cute if you write them the right way. The two-season anime adaptation of the manga Rosario + Vampire is one such project, as it follows young man Tsukune Aono who accidentally finds himself going to a monsters-only boarding school. Luckily for him, vampire girl Moka Akashiya helps him survive, as she’s not only friendly, but she also has a crush on our hero.

Vampires Vs. The Bronx (2020)

There are two huge reasons vampire fans should watch the ever-charming horror-comedy Vampires vs. The Bronx. The first one is obviously because of the fact that using gentrification as a metaphor for a vampiric conquest is pretty sharp. But another fantastic note to make is that this is a modern flick that establishes Blade as a sacred vampire text. So if you like Wesley Snipes’ Daywalker, this Netflix original is an easy option.

Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire (2022 - )

There is a lot of queer subtext that the movie adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire couldn’t fully dig into in the mid-’90s. So when AMC got its hands on the rights to reinterpret the entire book series, the new Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) were able to really sink their teeth into everything fans already knew about these undead foils.

Fright Night (2011)

It’s always amazing when a remake can stand on its own two feet, honoring its source while also doing its own thing. 2011’s revamped version of Fright Night is a beautiful case in point, especially when focusing on the villainous vampire Jerry Dandridge. Played by Colin Farrell, Jerry’s romantic melancholy is replaced with dude bro sociopath energy aimed at Anton Yelchin's Charlie Brewster. Also, David Tennant’s Peter Vincent, heavily influenced by mid-aughts illusionist Criss Angel, is another deliciously R-rated note in this picture’s arsenal.

The Vampire Diaries (2009 - 2017)

If you mix in a little bit of Twilight with a touch of Supernatural and a heaping dose of Dracula, you’ve got the formula for The CW hit The Vampire Diaries. With two spin-offs and plenty of smoldering good looks from cast members like Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev, this is a pure example of what the network was known for in its heyday.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

Kids need to be introduced to vampires at some point, and the Hotel Transylvania series is probably the best way to get youngsters acquainted with creatures of the night. But suppose you really want to go for the comedic gold. In that case, it's recommended you watch Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, as it pits lonely widower Drac (Adam Sandler) against his would-be hunter/potential love interest Ericka (Kathryn Hahn)...the great-granddaughter of the Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan.)

American Horror Story: Hotel (2015 - 2016)

The fifth season of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story mixed two things that people can’t get enough of: murder hotels, and the creatures that run them. Acting as a web of mayhem, intrigue, and bloodletting orchestrated by the alluring Countess (Lady Gaga), things get as twisted and steamy as you’d expect from FX’s long-running masterpiece of fright.

Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a movie you should absolutely not take seriously. Unless you take your low-budget musical horror comedies gravely serious; in which case continue as planned. Director Lee Demarbre and writer Ian Driscoll leave it all on the field in a picture that’s so absurd, that no synopsis would do it justice. You’ll just have to trust your heart, and The Lord, and this one.

NOS4A2 (2019 - 2020)

Author Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 is a twisted gem that father Stephen King is probably very proud of. Sharing similar sensibilities to his master of horror dad, vampire Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) hunts young children to stay immortal, and uses a sickly sweet Christmas village to do just that. Of course, with a seemingly psychic woman on his trail (Ashleigh Cummings), the playing field is a bit more evened out in this two-season scrap.

Vamp (1986)

If you’re heading out for a little bit of nightlife, you should always keep in mind where you’re headed. The young men at the heart of 1986’s Vamp didn’t get that warning, which is what leads them to the nightclub that introduces them to the enigmatic Katrina (Grace Jones). A night of fatal misadventure follows, as this After Hours style horror-comedy doesn’t let our protagonists off easy.

Around the time when Twilight was all the rage, fans of supernatural coming-of-age romance stories found a small screen answer to that worldwide phenomenon in The Vampire Diaries. Developed by Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson from a series of novels by L.J. Smith, the show follows teenage Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), who finds herself in a love triangle with brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder), who also happen to be immortal creatures of the night.

One of the best horror TV shows on Max, the series lasted eight seasons on The CW and spawned two spin-offs (The Originals and Legacies) but we imagine that, if you are a fan, you have probably seen those shows already. If you are looking to expand your purview with some fresh blood, perhaps these other TV shows like The Vampire Diaries might quench your thirst.

A Discovery Of Witches (2018-2022)

A woman (played by Teresa Palmer) who comes from a family with witchcraft in its history falls for a charismatic Englishman (played by Matthew Goode), who turns out to be a natural enemy of her kind.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Another TV adaptation of a book series (Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy) involving a complicated romance between a vampire and a woman (a witch, in this case) is the U.K.-based A Discovery of Witches, which is also available with a Shudder subscription.

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First Kill (2022)

Teenagers Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Calliope (Imani Lewis) are immediately drawn to each other, only to discover they are natural enemies.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: V.E. Schwab adapts her own short story, First Kill, into this short-lived Netflix original series which is another coming-of-age story about a complicated romance between a vampire and a young woman, who is a vampire hunter in this case.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Teenage Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) discovers that she is destined to defend the earth from all forms of otherworldly evil, with the help of friends and her school's librarian.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: The ultimate coming-of-age series about a young woman who has shared a romance with a bloodsucker (when she was not hunting one) is one of the best horror TV shows on Hulu, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which also one of The CW's biggest supernatural hits when it was still called The WB.

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Roswell (1999-2002)

In a New Mexico town famous for being the site of a fabled UFO crash, three teens struggle to hide the fact that they are not from around here.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Another romantic and bizarre coming-of-age WB hit is Roswell, in which Shiri Appleby stars as a young woman named Liz, who falls for a man who is not quite human (in this case an alien-human hybrid named Max, played by Jason Behr).

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Supernatural (2005-2020)

Following in the footsteps of their parents, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) search for things that go bump in the night so they can bump back.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Creator Eric Kripke's mega-popular supernatural WB/CW hit is not particularly romantic but the alliances that Sam and Dean form with otherworldly beings in the Supernatural cast (especially Misha Collins' Castiel) are quite endearing.

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Being Human (2011-2014)

A vampire (played by Sam Witwer), a werewolf (played by Sam Huntington), and a ghost (played by Meaghan Rath) try to blend in while sharing an apartment together. 

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: In addition to its absorbing romantic plot points, Syfy's North American version of the British supernatural dramedy Being Human is also a great match to The Vampire Diaries for how it explores the struggles that come with being a creature of the night in the modern world.

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Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (2018-2020) 

Kiernan Shipka stars as an enchanted teen whose bid to share a normal life with her mortal friends is constantly interrupted by strange circumstances plaguing her town.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Netflix's Chiling Adventures of Sabrina — a far darker interpretation of the popular Archie Comics character than the Melissa Joan Hart-led sitcom — is another coming-of-age drama about struggling to balance one's commitment to their human side with their supernatural side.

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V-Wars (2019)

Melted ice caused by climate change suddenly unleashes an ancient virus that begins transforming the infected into blood-thirsty, nocturnal savages.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Just a few years after saying goodbye to the Vampire Diaries cast, Ian Somerhalder returned to that world but in a human role on a series that explored the ugly side of vampirism called V-Wars, which only lasted one season on Netflix.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-Present)

After turning 16, Belly (Lola Tung) suddenly attracts newfound attention from childhood friends, and brothers, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) while spending the summer together.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: Not every show has to be supernatural to appeal to The Vampire Diaries fans, such as the coming-of-age Amazon Prime original TV show, The Summer I Turned Pretty, which also involves a captivating love triangle plot.

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Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017)

Following the disappearance of their friend, four young women fall prey to a mysterious enemy who threatens to reveal their most damning innermost secrets.

Why it is a great show to watch if you are a fan of The Vampire Diaries: While also not a supernatural drama (despite spawning a short-lived supernatural spin-off called Ravenswood), Pretty Little Liars is chock-full of the same kind of high-stakes teen drama that makes The Vampire Diaries relatable and absorbing.

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The supernatural has always been something that has intrigued viewers for some time. From monster movies to big-time sagas like Harry Potter, there always seems to be some sort of amazing fantasy world out there for people like us to escape into. That’s why when Teen Wolf, starring Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Dylan O'Brien, and more, debuted a decade ago, it became a major hit for MTV.

While there were plenty of supernatural shows out before Teen Wolf, the popularity the show gained caused many networks to start making their own supernatural shows, as well. From long-time fan favorites to relativey new supernatural shows, here are the best shows like Teen Wolf.

Shadowhunters (Hulu)

Shadowhunters, based on The Mortal Instruments book series, follows the story of Clary Fray, a young woman who finds out on her eighteenth birthday that she is from a long line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids whose mission in life is to hunt down demons, all while she has to deal with the struggle of forbidden love.

For fans of Teen Wolf, the appeal is almost instantly obvious. Shows like this have some amazing monsters to watch, alongside some pretty amazing special effects and fight scenes. Plus, the love stories will remind you of other teen shows, including Teen Wolf. The series only lasted for three seasons, so if you wanted to binge Shadowhunters, you easily could.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Hulu)

If you want a classic supernatural series, look no further than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Here, we follow the story of Buffy Summers, a woman who descends from a long line of “Vampire Slayers,” chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons, and different kinds of evil. She wants to live a normal life, but slowly begins to embrace her destiny.

There’s always been this weird difference with people who think vampires are better than werewolves, but trust me when I say that even if you’re a fan of Teen Wolf, you’ll enjoy the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast and this show. It has all of the action you would expect from a show like this, and fan favorites who will capture your heart. I mean, the show even spawned a spinoff, Angel, because the character was so popular. Give it a shot.

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The Vampire Diaries (Netflix)

While Teen Wolf was on MTV, The Vampire Diaries was just as popular. In this teen drama, we begin the story with Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who just lost both her parents in a car accident – and just so happens to end up falling in love with Stefan Salvatore, a 162-year-old vampire, who has a brother, Damon Salvatore – whom she also ends up falling for.

This show came out during the peak of the vampire craziness after Twilight, and everyone was falling in love with the idea of being with a vampire. However, that didn’t mean the show wasn’t a lot of fun. The love triangles were almost ridiculous at times, but made the show even more enjoyable, and who doesn’t love a nice set of good-looking brothers? Teen Wolf has always been one of my go-tos, but The Vampire Diaries doesn’t fall far behind.

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Supernatural (Netflix)

While Stefan and Damon Salvatore are a pretty cool set of brothers, my absolute favorite pair are the Winchester brothers, Dean and Sam. In Supernatural, we follow the pair as they hunt down several different kinds of monsters, including demons, ghosts, and other supernatural beings, all while dealing with their own issues.

The show had 15 seasons because there was so much story to cover. If you love Teen Wolf, there’s no doubt in my mind that you will enjoy the heck out of Supernatural. From the brotherly love between Dean and Sam to the monsters they hunt down (which also include werewolves, by the way), it’s a whole lot of fun. By the end of the show, you’ll find yourself singing “Carry On Wayward Son” in your mind every day.

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Being Human (AMC+)

Ever wonder what it would be like to be a supernatural being and have roommates? Because that’s what Being Human covers. In this series based on the BBC show of the same name, we get to follow the tales of a werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost living together, all in the same house as roommates.

Let me just say that this show is hysterical. If you’re a fan of the humor in Teen Wolf, there is no way you won’t enjoy the heck out of Being Human, and its surprising dark yet pleasing comedy. Not only that, but you get some amazing monsters added in as well, alongside plotlines you would never expect. We’ve had plenty of shows about roommates, with hits like Friends and New Girl, but Being Human gave a refreshing twist to the genre that I think we could all use.

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Hemlock Grove (Netflix)

Now, if you’re looking for something a little bit darker after watching a show like Teen Wolf, be sure to check out Hemlock Grove. In this series, we get to see the strange happenings that are occurring in the fictional town of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. The community has experienced recent murders, and brutal ones at that, stirring up rumors. A townie and a newcomer end up working together to try and shed light on the mystery – while having their own secrets.

Is it as monster-filled as the rest? No, but honestly, sometimes you don’t need crazy monsters like Teen Wolf. Sometimes, all you need is a good mystery, some dark moments, and a great story to get you going. Even with only three seasons, it’s still one of Netflix’s best shows out there right now.

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Grimm (Amazon Prime)

In this popular police drama, we get to see what it would be like to basically be a monster cop. In Grimm, we follow Nicholas Burkhardt, a Portland homicide detective who is a Grimm, the latest in a line of guardians sworn to protect humanity against mythological creatures, and keep the balance needed for the universe to stay intact.

With six seasons, there’s plenty to love about Grimm that Teen Wolf fans would enjoy. You get a ton of monsters, but you also get an awesome cop show. I mean, a cop hunting down monsters in the city of Portland? It already sounds interesting enough. It’s, honestly, a great time no matter what part of the supernatural genre you enjoy, and you’ll find something or someone to root for in every episode.

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The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (Netflix)

I still think it’s a crime that this show only got four seasons. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was a dark twist on Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, where on her sixteenth birthday, she must sign her soul away to the devil to be able to practice her witchcraft and leave the mortal world behind. But, of course, the young girl doesn’t want to do that and tries to live both lives – putting herself and her loved ones at risk.

This show was so good. While the original Sabrina: The Teenage Witch was a great sitcom, there’s just something about this dark version that makes me smile, and that's why it would be a great pick for Teen Wolf fans. It has that perfect combination of magic, love, and dark comedy. I think that if Chilling Adventures of Sabrina wasn’t on Netflix, it could have ended up on MTV.

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The Order (Netflix)

Moving into another great magic show, The Order followed college student Jack Morton as he enrolled in the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose, a secret society that teaches magic. As he starts to learn more about who he is and his family’s lives, he begins to understand the dark secrets of the past, and an underground battle occurring between werewolves and the dark arts.

I mean, how does that not sound appealing to Teen Wolf fans? That has everything you could possibly ask for. Sorcery? Check. Werewolves? Check. Great story? Check. Fun practical and visual effects? Check. All of the boxes are crossed off here. My only complaint is that it was two seasons. Why does Netflix always want to cancel the good originals?

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Lucifer (Netflix)

As our last item, we take a look into what it would be like if Lucifer – ya know, the devil himself – decided to step into the human world. In Lucifer, we get to know the story of the titular character, who ends up abandoning his throne in Hell to own a nightclub named Lux and consult for the LAPD.

The premise alone probably already has you scratching your head. The devil owning a nightclub and working for the police? But, those are the questions that this show wants you to have, and they answer them very well. What also makes this show so intriguing, like Teen Wolf, is the development of certain characters, especially Lucifer. Who would have thought the king of the damned would have a heart? Because that’s exactly what Lucifer explores. The upcoming sixth season will be its last, but the show has had an amazing run.

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All these Netflix TV shows and other series – there’s just so much to watch now! But, hopefully, if you’re missing Teen Wolf after all this time, you might be able to find a nice replacement. Now, I’m going to go and re-watch Supernatural for the millionth time.

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As sci-fi comedy series streaming on Amazon Prime, Greg Daniels' Upload is another funny--sort of work related--comedy that relies heavily on characters and cast chemistry. Upload made a big impression on viewers during its first season, especially after a major twist ending. If you’re like me, then you probably binge watched all ten episodes in one sitting. If you’re also like me, you loved Upload, and are now wondering: What do I watch next?

Upload’s ability to float between genres adds to its appeal. It has it all: comedy, scifi, romance, mystery, and thrills. This don’t-force-me-in-a-box attitude makes it easy to find plenty of options of shows and movies with some element of Upload. There is only one Upload, but the following list contains entertaining series and films that matched the series’ tone or themes, and they're all available to stream through Amazon Prime.

Parks and Recreation (2009)

Parks and Recreation follows the Parks and Rec department of Pawnee, Indiana. Led by Pawnee enthusiast Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), the group tries to keep the town afloat while tackling various comedic obstacles.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Upload and Parks and Recreation are kind of like cousins. They aren’t related enough to be siblings, but share certain elements. Greg Daniels co-created this series as well, so they’re all part of Daniels’ quirky co-worker family. Parks and Recreation and Upload both excel at very realistically creating these unique worlds that draw you in and keep you wanting to watch forever.

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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012)

Kate Hudson and Gael Garcia Bernal star in A Little Bit Of Heaven. The film is a romantic dramedy about a woman who finds out she has terminal cancer. She then begins to reevaluate her life and try to repair broken connections.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: In many ways, Upload and A Little Bit of Heaven are about finding freedom and a new life through death. Kate Hudson’s character Marley learns to appreciate her life while she has it, and let go of some of her fears, especially about falling in love. With Upload, Nathan (Robbie Amell) kind of gets a second chance to live, love, and experience life in the afterlife. It’s becoming a new, freer version of himself that allows him to fall for Nora (Andy Allo).

Stream A Little Bit Of Heaven on Amazon Prime here.

Dead Like Me (2003)

Georgia (Ellen Muth) dies and joins a team of reapers. Their jobs are to collect souls right before they die. The reapers walk among the living, but with different faces. Dead Like Me’s cast includes Mandy Patinkin, Callum Blue, and Jasmine Guy.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Dead Like Me and Upload both deal with life after death. They also tackle it with a comedic touch, while not straying from the fact that dying isn’t really amazing, especially if you still have to watch it go on without you. The world of Upload and Dead Like Me feel distinct and different from each other, but also like in some parallel universe they could overlap.

Stream Dead Like Me on Amazon Prime here.

Forever (2018)

June (Maya Rudolph) dies and seemingly is about to experience the afterlife on her own--a break from her husband. However, her husband Oscar (Fred Armisen) dies soon after her. Forever is a series about the challenges a marriage faces when staring down the real possibility of spending forever together.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Forever only streamed for one season, so for those looking for more afterlife concept series, then it’s a quick binge. Forever and Upload are both shows that get a lot of its draw from the relationships. June and Oscar face the question about whether their relationship has run its course, and if it’s time to move away from it. This is the same battle that Nathan and Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) are facing.

Stream Forever on Amazon here.

Good Omens (2019)

Amazon’s mini-series Good Omens follows angel and demon Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant) as they are pulled into the middle of the ultimate end of days, battle of good vs evil. While everyone around them prepares and hopes for the apocalypse, they’re trying to decide if they really want one.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Good, evil, life, death are all one big thread forever linked, and Upload and Good Omens explores that concept. The series both use comedy to address it, but in slightly different ways. Upload shows how the digital world could play a part in death and the future, and Good Omens shows how forces beyond our control may or may not lead to everyone’s demise.

Stream Good Omens on Amazon here.

Eureka (2006)

Eureka is about the fictional town of Eureka, Oregon. The special town consists of some of the world’s greatest minds. Their intelligence leads to great discoveries and even greater chaos. Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) tries to keep the town from completely falling apart.

Why It’s A Good Option for fans of Upload: Lake View often seems like it’s one coding mistake away from complete destruction. The town of Eureka has that same vibe. Both series also deal with the ways innovation and inventors can help and hurt daily life.

Stream Eureka on Amazon here.

Downsizing (2017)

Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig star in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing.Paul (Matt Damon) and Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to undergo this experimental procedure to shrink themselves and live in this new community.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Upload and Downsizing deal with utopia-esque communities that turn out to be not as great as advertised. Both the film and Upload also show their protagonists finding purpose through their quest and relationships within these new communities.

Stream Downsizing on Amazon here.

The Returned (2012)

The Returned is a french drama about people who died and then inexplicably returning to their lives. These people have no memory of their deaths and what happened to them after it. They also return to their lives the same age they were when they died.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: The Returned has a major mystery component to it. These people have returned, but they’re not quite the same as they were prior to their deaths. The series asks can someone really return to normal after experiencing something traumatic as death? It’s a lot more French and dramatic than Upload, but both explore the journey of death, and the aftermath it has on those who lose someone.

Stream The Returned on Amazon here.

Psych (2006)

Psych follows Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) as they investigate crimes. Shawn pretends to be a psychic, but he’s really just exceptionally good at observing and using deductive reasoning. Psych ran for eight seasons, and had two movies, one set to premiere in 2020. The cast of the series also includes Maggie Lawson, Timothy Omundson, Kirsten Nelson, and Corbin Bernsen.

Why it’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Psych and Upload both have a playful nature to them. Shawn and Gus deal with crimes and their own struggles, but do so with cheer and humor. Both series also have a mystery (or mysteries) as the main driving force for the plot.

Stream Psych on Amazon here.

Electric Dreams (2017)

Electric Dreams is a science fiction anthology series. It’s based on the work OF Philip K. Dick. Each of the 10 episodes run for around 50 minutes. It features some big Hollywood actors like Bryan Cranston, Richard Madden, Steve Buscemi, and Anna Paquin.

Why It’s A Good Option for fans of Upload: Electric Dreams is an anthology series with similarities to The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, that puts a big microscope and magnifying glass to alternative universes and potential futures. It shows both exciting and terrifying possibilities. As comedic as Upload is, it’s also clearly making observations and criticizing technology and what the future can become because of it. These series share a love and appreciation for technology and a healthy fear of it.

Stream Electric Dreams on Amazon here.

Being Human (UK, 2008)

Being Human is the story of a ghost (Lenora Crichlow), a werewolf (Russell Tovey), and a vampire (Aidan Turner) living together. They attempt to live among the humans, but paranormal creatures, often from their past, make that very hard.

Why It’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: The first season of Being Human starts with Annie only recently dying and haunting the house. As the season continues it’s revealed that there might be more to her death than she originally thought. Upload and Being Human both work really well because they normalize these extraordinary situations. It completely feels normal that Lake View and other places like it exist. It also feels normal that a vampire, ghost, and werewolf can be best friends.

Stream Being Human on Amazon here.

Humans (2015)

Humans is a series about androids and humans existing together. The robots are referred to as synths in this series. The synths are workers and servants to the humans. However, there exists a special group of them that have been granted consciousness. They feel and think with the same intensity as normal humans, but have to keep this a secret or they will be considered dangerous by the humans. Humans’ cast includes Gemma Chan, Colin Morgan, and Katherine Parkinson.

Why it’s a Good Option for fans of Upload: Humans has a major element about the class system and how people in power use it to abuse those without it. This is seen throughout Upload as well. Those below don’t receive the same perks and freedoms in both series. In Upload, the 2gig people are shown to represent this lower class and the synths in Humans.

Stream Humans on Amazon Prime here.

If none of these series make you want to give them a five star rating, then you can always just rewatch Upload a few dozen more times.

Syfy's Being Human came to a close last night, delivering a finale that managed to capture the heart of the series with an ending that was bittersweet but by no means unsatisfying. Spoilers if you haven't seen it "There Goes the Neighborhood Part 3," the series finale of Being Human.

Four seasons ago, Being Human was a supernatural drama trying to find its place at a network that was taking efforts to loosen the boundaries of the genre that once defined it. Not only was this series not technically science fiction, but it was also yet another attempt at a remake of a British series. Few of those seem to find much success. Being Human never blew up to be a massively popular "hit" series for Syfy, but it did settle into a fast and comfortable groove, focusing its first season on three housemates, each battling their own demons more literally than the average twenty something would. Their unlikely friendship -- a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf not only living together but getting along -- quickly became the heart of the series as their supernatural natures drew them in and out of conflict with others of their kind. To end the drama fittingly, Being Human only ever had to go back to the bond that brought and kept these characters together. And it did, using sacrifice and love to justify its otherwise bittersweet ending, as only two of the four lead characters remained when all was said and done.

There are series like Friends that end with characters leaving an empty apartment or their office or whatever place brought them together. For Being Human, ending the series with Aidan burning the house to the ground seems fitting enough, given the dark nature of the building. I would've liked it if Season 4 had spent more time focusing on the house, to be honest, as I think there would've been more story there, but I'm not sure how long show runner Anna Fricke and the other writers had to prepare this conclusion. Either way, a secret room and nasty little girl causing problems was a nice enough way to bring the story back to the house, which not only brought Aidan, Josh and Sally (and eventually Nora) together, but also served as the death spot for more than one character.

The finale didn't take long to resolve the prophesied event wherein Aidan snaps Josh's neck. Crazed and baited by the house, Aidan was ready to kill Josh at the start of the episode but Sally managed to put a stop to it, first by buying some time and then by putting whatever life was left in her into Aidan, essentially curing him of being a vampire and costing Sally her existence. She was gone and Aidan was alive. Aidan celebrated this first by eating a massive cheeseburger and fries, and then later by getting hammered and passing out in the snow. Cut to Aidan finding out he's aging rapidly and won't survive the week.

Some might try to argue that Sally's sacrifice was in vein. After all, she gave her "life" for Aidan and he died anyway. But she saved Josh in the process, and she saved Aidan from making what would have been his biggest mistake and regret. If Aidan had killed Josh, I'm not sure he would've ever come back from that. Let's also take into account that Aidan used his final moments to destroy the house, protecting anyone else from its harmful ways. And then he died and got his door, which I don't think would've been possible if he would have died as a vampire. So after two hundred years, I'd say Aidan had a good run and his death wasn't a total loss, as Sally was there waiting for him on the other side of that door.

The series ended with Josh and Nora the parents of two adorable kids. Fun bit of trivia: Little Sally and Aidan were apparently played by Sam Huntington's actual children.

Apart from having Aidan and Sally turn human and live happily ever after, we really couldn't have asked for a happier ending. And given the choice between an overly happy -- read: sappy -- ending that gives everyone exactly what they want, I'll take a bit of bittersweet if there's depth and meaning behind the loss, and I think Being Human nailed it there. Both Aidan and Sally were living second lives. This is a series that acknowledges that death isn't the end of the line. Knowing they earned their doors -- Sally lost her own door when Aidan was in trouble in Season 1, so I think it's fitting she was waiting for him behind hiss -- and that they've moved on together offers a comforting sense of closure to both of their existences.

Maybe Being Human wasn't technically sci-fi and maybe it was a remake of another series. People have often voiced complaints about one or the other when it comes to this series, but as a drama that worked suspense, occasional horror, occasional humor, plenty of drama and more charm than it probably had any right to have given the subject matter -- part of that is a real credit to the chemistry of its cast, the other part is great writing -- Being Human was a gem of a series, it had a great run and I'm really going to miss it.

Four seasons doesn't seem like a long enough stretch for Being Human. And yet, the Syfy drama is drawing to a close this Monday night. Given the nature of the drama, it's entirely possible that one or more characters will meet their demise by series' end. The trailer for "There Goes the Neighborhood (Part 3)" certainly seems to indicate that possibility.

For one thing, we have Josh possibly getting his neck broken by Aidan, courtesy of Ramona/the House. And then there's the sight of Aidan laying down and Sally saying something over him. And speaking of Sally, it looks like she was ascending or something, all glowy and what not.

Let's put talk of death aside though and celebrate the excellent title of this episode. Note the (Part 3) mention. But last week's episode was "House Hunting" and the one before that was "Ramona the Pest"... So where are Parts 1 & 2 of "There Goes The Neighborhood"? Let's go all the way back to the series premiere, when Being Human was launching as a North American remake of a popular UK supernatural drama about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf living together. Episodes 1 & 2 of Being Human (US) are "There Goes The Neighborhood (Part 1)" and "There Goes the Neighborhood (Part 2)." This appears to be a full circle situation, in title anyway. Whether or not the series wraps around to the premiere episode in some deeper way remains to be seen.

The photos for the episode tease problems, and I don't just mean Aidan having to pretend to eat that delicious looking burger and shake...

I mean like Ramona problems...

And... whatever's happening here that evidently doesn't involve Sally...

That looks like three people sitting around looking devastated. Not good!

Check out more photos from the episode in the gallery below, and be sure to tune in for Being Human's series finale Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy!

It's hard to believe there are just two episodes to go before Being Human is over for good. The preview for the penultimate episode of the fourth and final season offers a fairly heavy indication that the past is literally coming back to haunt these characters, and it looks like pretty much everyone is in some kind of trouble. Syfy has since offered a sizable clip that may give us an indication of how and why that's happening. And as you might have already guessed, it has to do with young Ramona, the ghosty girl living in the secret bedroom in the house that's about to be vacated...

So, by this hefty clip's big reveal, it turns out this Ramona girl not only died in this house, but she had devil worshipping parents who ritualistically murdered her during a party and then sealed off her room. Now she's pissed off enough to take it out on her sister, who may actually be dying at the end of that clip. One more ghost for the house, right?

This is kind of a major curveball for the series but one that comes in time to drive us right to the finale. The fact that it's so directly tied to the house seems especially fitting for what may be the characters' final major supernatural challenge, considering the house is a big part of what brought this group together to begin with.

So, are we guessing that the devil worshippers and/or the girl are tied to the return of the characters? And will this series be able to wrap up all of the loose ends within two episodes? I suppose it'll have to. But it's impressive to see how far the show has come this season, particularly as it relates to bringing back certain stories and allowing them to play out. Now we're left to wonder how this story will end, for better or worse.

Being Human airs Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

There are only four episodes left of Being Human, as the series is wrapping up its final season and the writers have thrown a couple of pretty incredible twists into the series as it heads toward its finale. Spoilers if you aren't caught up! The preview for Monday's "Oh Don't You Die For Me" shows some problems between Josh and Nora, possibly involving Josh's wolf issues, a new pack and him getting taken. Meanwhile, Aidan looks like he has a fight on his hands. We'll get to that in a minute.

Back to those incredible twists. First is that intense future-glimpse we saw during last week's episode. Why was Aidan at Josh's throat? Also, after seasons of being just-friends, the writers took us down an alternate-timeline rabbit hole that had Sally and Aidan becoming an item over the last couple of episodes. Aidan has no knowledge of that as far as we know, but Sally does. Are those romantic feelings lingering? And -- just speculating here -- is there any chance that Sally might possess Aidan at some point and leave traces of those memories in his head that makes him aware that there's a connection there that neither have explored in this timeline? Who knows? What we do know from the above preview and the clip below is that Sally will be helping Aidan out with an intense basement fight...

I love the way Sally smiles when she possesses two of those guys. Too funny. And a resourceful way for a ghost to get involved in a fight, though it's a bit reminiscent of Angel Season 5 when Spike helped Angel kill that creepy Hainsley guy. That was kind of a different situation though, but just as funny.

Let's get back to Sally because here's where things might get a bit more spoilery. Last Fall I got to visit the set of Being Human and all season, I've been waiting for the house in the series to look like it did when I was on set, all red and different...

And sure enough, during Sally's alternate timeline trip, the house was decorated with lots of red furnishings. So I'm thinking that's what was being shot when the press was on set.

Also on set, laid out among the props that were on display for us was a fake Sally who looked a lot like the sick looking Sally featured in the first preview above. Only the one we saw was much more decayed...

Now, my assumption was that this prop was being used for Sally at the end of Season 3, and that may actually be the case. Because she's wearing the same outfit then and now, it's hard to say. UPDATE: On closer inspection, thanks to a photo posted at TV.com, it looks like the decay situation matches the Season 3 finale Sally after all. So hopefully the prop on set was just something leftover from last season and we won't be seeing her go through all of that all over again. It wouldn't be the first time history has repeated itself in odd ways on this show though, right?

Being Human airs Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

I am genuinely disappointed to have to report that the current fourth season of Syfy's Being Human will be the series' last. We just received confirmation of this news, along with a video featuring the cast of the supernatural drama talking about what they'll miss most about the series and thanking fans for their viewership, love and support...

There are six episodes remaining in the series, and we're told they revisit the story's beginning, building up to a send-off for Josh, Sally, Aidan and Nora that's not to be missed.

More supernatural than actual sci-fi, the drama is based on a British series from Toby Whithouse. Being Human stars Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath and Kristen Hager as four friends with supernatural natures. Nora and Josh are werewolves, while Aidan is a vampire and Sally is a ghost. They live together in a house and are each trying to fight -- or at the very least, manage -- the darker sides of their nature. Their friendship, despite their differences, is part of what helps them maintain some semblance of normalcy and humanity amidst the struggle against their dark urges.

If you're disappointed or surprised by the cancellation, I'm right there with you. I've been a fan of this remake from the start, and have always looked forward to each season. One of the things I've especially loved about this series is how well the characters gel together on screen. Their stories may run a bit separately, as Sally deals with a lot of life-after-death drama (involving witches this season), Josh and Nora face each full moon (and some marital challenges this season) and Aidan attempts to avoid feeding off people while also dealing with the ever-evolving social hierarchy of the vampire community. The writing has always been sharp and clever, finding ways to keep these characters in each others' lives and giving them plenty of moments for great banter. The humor offset the drama nicely and that's as much a credit to the writing as it is the excellent cast.

I had the privilege of visiting the set last Fall, and one of things I've always noticed about the cast is that the dynamic between them is as great off-screen as it is on. This series will most definitely be missed. Now let's all hope that their ending is a happy one, whatever it is.

Being Human's final episode will air Monday, April 7.

Being Human returns to Syfy for Season 4 tonight! We already gave you five reasons to be excited for the new season, and now here’s one more. For those die-hard fans who want to hear from the cast about the new season, Syfy’s set to run a Google Hangout tonight at 8:30 p.m. EST, ahead of the 9:00 p.m. premiere of Season 4. Check out the promo for the Hangout below:

Featuring Meaghan Rath, Sam Witwer, Kristen Hager and Sam Huntington, the Being Human Hangout will be moderated by Aaron Sagers. It’ll run during the half hour leading up to the Season 4 premiere and then resume at 10:00 p.m. for a Q&A. Watch along by visitingGoogle.com/+Syfy.

Here's the stream:

When Season 3 left off, Sally (Rath) was being pulled by Donna into some unknown place through the hole in the stairs. Nora, meanwhile, woke up after the full moon to discover that Josh hadn’t transformed back into his human self. And it seemed like Aidan had detached himself from pretty much all of his vampire associates, moving on to a human relationship. But we also caught a glimpse of Suzanna, his wife from his pre-vampire life, lingering in the present day. So there are a lot of loose ends that need to be addressed at the start of Season 4.

Here’s the previously released trailer for the premiere:

Finally, we have this clip from Season 4, which Syfy has labeled as “Sneak Peek 401,” however I’m pretty sure — and by pretty sure, I mean unless they’re numbering the episodes out of order, I’m totally sure — it’s from the second episode of the season, which doesn’t air until next week, and is a little bit spoilery in that respect. So you may want to wait until after tonight’s episode to watch it:

Being Human airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on Syfy.

This Monday night, Syfy’s Being Human returns for its fourth season. We took a look at the first two episodes of the supernatural drama and had no trouble coming up with five great reasons why fans should be excited by the drama’s return.

Based on Toby Whithouse’s U.K. series, Being Human centers on a group of supernatural beings — Aidan (Sam Witwer): Vampire, Sally (Meaghan Rath): Ghost, Josh (Sam Huntington): Werewolf, and Nora (Kristen Hager): Also a werewolf (and Josh’s wife). They live together in a house in Boston and are continuously trying to maintain some semblance of human normalcy while dealing with their supernatural urges. The series started out good and only continues to get better, which is all the more reason why you should be excited for Season 4. But to break it down with a bit more detail (but no major spoilers), here are five solid reasons to cheer for Being Human’s return:

5. There Will Be Blood

Let’s face it, if you had an issue with blood, you wouldn’t be watching a series that involves vampires. Blood drinking isn’t the only thing on the menu for the start of Season 4, though there is some of that, including one seriously disturbing blood binge. Expect lots of blood. Swirling blood. Splattering blood. And blood that’s… well, way too gross (and kind of disturbingly funny) to specify, even if I was trying to be more liberal with spoilers. So much blood.

4. Everyone Gets Naked

Pretty much everyone. Relaxed naked. Post-wolf waking-up-on-the-ground naked. Sexy naked. Lingerie almost-naked. The variety of naked is truly impressive. Of course, we’re dealing with basic cable here, so don’t expect to see a whole lot, but pretty much everyone is showing some skin in these first couple of episodes for one reason or another. We could stop here and simply celebrate the prettiness of the cast, but if we dug a bit deeper, we might suggest that nudity emphasizes human vulnerability, and that's something all of these characters have to deal with on some level or another.

3. Oh Suzanna

Remember at the end of Season 3 when Aidan’s wife Suzanna (Katharine Isabelle) mysteriously popped up in the present? As far as we knew up until that point, she was drowned in a river by a bunch of colonists when they believed she was a witch, due to her connection with Aidan. So, how’s she alive in the present? Well, I won’t tell you the answer to that question but I will tell you that you’ll find out the answer to that and more in the first two episodes. There are some surprising and disturbing reveals about Suzanna that we see through flashbacks in the first two episodes. It'll be interesting to see how her presence factors into the story going forward.

2. Changes

Does anything ever stay the same on Being Human? Of course not. People change. So do vampires, ghosts and werewolves. For Aidan, the change we see in the first couple of episodes is on a more emotional level. Transformation for Josh is obviously happening on a more literal level. Season 3 left off with him stuck as a werewolf. Season 4 picks up with Nora and Aidan desperately trying to contain wolf-Josh and figure out what’s going on. Rest assured though, as the above screenshot from one of the trailers indicates, we do see human Josh at some point. But it’s evident that things in his life, as a wolf and a human, are drastically altered. The second episode offers a really great cliffhanger in that respect.

And then there’s Sally, who was last seen being pulled through a hole in the landing of the stairs by Donna (Amy Aquino). Donna has some interesting things to say to Sally at the start of the fourth season, as the two of them are quarantined in some kind of spa-like limbo. Later, Sally’s situation moves to completely new territory. Territory that could really make a mess of things. That’s it. That’s all I’m saying about that.

1. Being Human is back!

That's really reason enough to be excited, isn't it? Being Human is now at the point of its existence where it can and does benefit from fans' familiarity with the characters and the relationships they’ve formed with one another. With each season, Aidan, Josh, Sally and Nora feel more like family, not only to each other but to the viewers. There’s one particular flashback scene that reminds us of just how far Josh, Aidan and Sally have come since they first moved in together. Their friendship seems so much more solidified than it once was and we almost don’t remember to notice the unconventional nature of it. Despite their differences, they’re family.

Season 4 seems intent on pushing these characters to the next stage of their existence as supernatural beings. Repercussions for ones choices have always played heavy in this series as we see the lead characters continuously fighting their natural urges, or in some cases, succumbing to them until things spiral out of control. The fourth season already seems poised to test new limits for each of these characters. The past is never all that far behind, even for someone like Aidan, whose past runs much deeper than the average human’s. And the choices these characters make could have terrible consequences if they’re not careful. But that takes us back to the last point, which is that these characters are family and they’re better together. The support they provide for one another is crucial. They’re also incredibly likable, together or individually, which makes it easy to care about their predicaments, even when they aren’t always making the best decisions.

Being Human’s fourth season doesn’t take long to dig into the story, setting the course for new and continued challenges while also settling into its natural groove, merging drama, horror and a little bit of humor in a way that should feel familiar to fans without feeling stale. Season 4 could prove to be the series' best yet, supporting the opinion that this is one of Syfy's best original series. At the very least, from what we've seen so far, the show seems fully prepared to embrace change, offering gallons of blood, a sprinkling of naked, some familiar faces, a few twists and turns and plenty of drama, which is where Being Human truly shines.

Want more spoilers about what’s ahead? Check out the set visit report we shared last fall! And tune in for Being Human’s Season 4 premiere on Monday, January 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

Happy Being Human Friday! Ok, that's not really a thing, but we did tell you the other day that Syfy would be airing a Being Human Season 3 marathon all day today, and that fans would get their first look at Season 4. Syfy delivered on their promise, as last season's episodes are airing now, and the above video shows us that first look of Season 4. And it's full of blood, nudity and growling!

Normally, we wouldn't be able to do much more than speculate over the snippets of footage featured in the above teaser, but I've actually seen the first eight minutes of the Season 4 premiere and am happy to shed a little bit of light on some of the things glimpsed in the above video.

Consider yourselves spoiler warned going forward!

Following a visit to the set of the series, I shared a brief report on what we saw in the first eight minutes of Season 4. In the above preview, we get a glimpse of Sally and Donna stuck in some spa-like limbo place. It's suggested that they're stuck there and that it's at least partially Sally's doing, though she doesn't seem entirely aware of that. It seems like there might be some sort of cycle happening, where she's enjoying her spa visit and then she realizes things aren't what they seem and reality comes crashing (or in this case dripping) down. That's what is implied during the conversation between Sally and Donna anyway. The video I saw cut out right as Sally's seated by the edge of the pool, just noticing the blood and seeing her zen-space turn into something dark and scary. I don't remember seeing the part where she gets thrown against the bloody wall though, so that may be what happens next.

As for Josh, Aidan and Nora, well, Josh is stuck as a werewolf and Aidan and Nora are desperately trying to trap werewolf Josh and figure out what's going on with him. The running in the woods and Aidan hugging Nora were shown in the video we watched, but not the "Please tell me I didn't just kill my best friend." No idea what that is, but considering we know Aidan and Nora are actively trying to save Josh -- and not Sally, from what I've seen -- I'm going to assume Aidain did something to Josh that might have hurt him or worse.

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So that's something to chew on while we wait until January for the series to return!

In the meantime, check out our set visit report here and watch the cast discussing Season 4 in this (very entertaining) panel video below:

Previously, we shared the first part of our visit to the set of Syfy's Being Human. While Part 1 focused on the visual effects and photos of the set of the supernatural drama series' upcoming fourth season, Part 2 includes the video of the panel which includes stars Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Kristen Hager and Sam Huntington, along with showrunner Anna Fricke.

Before we get to the video, I'll tell you a little bit about what's coming up in Season 4, as we were given a look at the first eight minutes of the season premiere. While I won't give you the minute-by-minute play-by-play, the next paragraph has some spoilers, so read on with caution!

Spoilers from the first eight minutes of Being Human Season 4 ahead! When Season 3 left off, Sally was being pulled into who-knows-where with the witch Donna (Amy Aquino), through the hole at the bottom of the stairs. When the Season 4 premiere episode begins, Sally is with Donna in a strange spa-like place. It's implied that Sally's whereabouts -- or the nature of them -- are at least partially her doing, that there's some kind of cycle in the works. Donna appears to be waiting patiently for something to happen on Sally's end, and things leave off in a very bizarre place when the footage cuts out. Meanwhile, at the end of Season 3, morning came and Josh didn't transform back into a human with Nora, suggesting that he's stuck as a werewolf. In Season 4's opener, Nora and Aidan are teamed up trying to track and capture Josh. They're struggling to figure out how to get him back. From the way Nora talks about it, it sounds like they've been dealing with Josh's permanent-werewolf condition for a while, and it seems like both of them are at the end of their rope with no answers as to why this happened or how they can fix it.

Here's the video of the panel. Though they're pretty tight-lipped on details about Season 4, the spoiler warning still applies!

Highlights from the above video:

"This season is 'Destiny,'" Anna Fricke says. "And we've talked about that a little bit. I think that's partially us sort of hearing fan feedback, and also us doing what we like to do the best which is really about these guys, and bringing the characters together. So it's really exploring the fact that everything happens for a reason. These people are together for a reason and that they are crucial to keeping each other human. And it's really about that, I'd say."

The cast all has their own definitions of hell.

Something happens this season that makes Sam Huntington cry.

The woman we saw at the end of Season 3 is, in fact, Aidan's wife. But they won't say how or why she's back.

There's a different relationship with Sally and Donna this year. We'll also see Bishop, and we'll see Henry "in a very interesting way." Rebecca and Ray will also appear.

No musical episode anytime soon.

Meaghan's brother (Jesse Rath) -- who played Sally's brother Robbie last season -- is coming back. If you're a Defiance fan, you'll recognize him as Alak Tarr from the Syfy series.

In Season 4, Sally's much stronger and more equipped to be alone.

There's something the characters do this season where they can "make it entirely explicit how much these characters have grown and changed," according to Witwer.

Anna does low snaps better than anyone. Hear the strange explanation involving a Portugese homeless man and watch her dance around the 23-minute mark. Sam Witwer can sing and clearly likes to.

Episodes 8 and 9 of Season 4 are very special. Kristen hints that "even though I…" but doesn't elaborate. Maybe something happens to or involving Nora in those episodes?

DogTheCatManDude is their favorite prop. We saw this decoration -- a porcelain cat that looks kind of like a dog, wearing a catcher's mask set near the fireplace -- on the set during our walk-through, which given the state of the first floor (see "red theme" comments in Part 1 of this feature), that's one more indication that the red theme in the living room might be some kind of alternate universe or dream sequence (as opposed to a flashback).

To see the red theme of the downstairs of Josh, Sally, Aidan and Nora's house, check out the photos posted in Part 1 of this feature here!

Being Human returns for Season 4 this January.

I doubt I'm alone in often hoping that the casts of my favorite shows are all friendly, funny, personable people behind the scenes. Of course, that's not necessarily true. People are always going to be a mixed bag, whether they work in television or some other industry, however in the case of Syfy's Being Human, "great chemistry" applies as much to the actors behind the scenes as it does to their characters on screen, which is why it's always so much fun to get to sit down with Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath and Kristen Hager to talk about the show. So when Syfy mentioned that Being Human was one of two series being showcased at their digital press tour this year, I jumped at the chance to attend. Not only did the cast sit with the press to discuss Season 4, but we also got to see the first eight minutes of the Season 4 premiere, speak with the cast about the upcoming season, and walk through the set of the series, which included a very red version of the characters' house. And by red, I don't mean blood red. I mean surreal-retro red.

This is Part 1 of a two-part set visit feature. Part 2 is here and includes a video of the panel and more details about Season 4! Also be warned that some of the images are kind of disturbing.

Our morning on set began with a breakfast buffet of food and props. While the food included bacon, eggs, sausage and the like, the props included severed vampire heads, silicone babies and Sally's rotting corpse.

Probably not the preferred decor or a bit of breakfast ambiance, but the food was good and I didn't hear any complaints!

After breakfast, we were treated to a presentation by Being Human's make-up effects guy Erik Gosselin, who spoke to us about some of the practical effects for the show. Interesting bits of trivia included learning that there were thirteen babies featured in the series, four of which were mechanical. The baby props we were shown were made of silicone, as opposed to latex. It sounds like it took some getting used to, working with silicone as opposed to latex, but Gosselin says the latter material is heavy with no bounce, translucent and soft. So they're using the silicone more and more on the show. As for what we can expect in Season 4, he wouldn't give anything away, other than to say that something they did for Season 4 is even cooler than the effects they did on skinless Henry.

Next up, we heard from Visual Effects Supervisor Jonathan Legris, who showed us some of the things they do to bring the supernatural element of this series to life through digital effects. That included a video showing how they transform Josh into a werewolf, and one that showed us Sally's burning scene. Part of making a special effect work is matching the lighting. That's probably something a typical TV viewer wouldn't automatically consider, but I'm thinking we'd notice if it didn't look right. According to Legris, that takes some planning both on and off set to make the practical effects line up with the digital ones...

Legris says they use a "chrome ball" to match the lighting in a scene to the lighting in the effects they're doing. As I understand it, the ball pulls an inverted reflection of the lighting scheme from the room and reproduces it somehow in their digital effects. From there, we did the set tour, and here are a few photos from that, the first of which shows the aforementioned red theme that spreads throughout the first floor. We've seen Sally, Josh and Aidan's house transformed before, and as you'll see in the photos, that's the case here. Showrunner Anna Fricke wouldn't say why the living room, dining room and kitchen were re-decorated, only that it's in a different phase or time, maybe both. The design goal was recycled and vintage…

We might assume we're looking at a "past" version of the house, but then there's this:

Mail tacked to the fridge to Aidan and Josh, both from the same Weston Falls, MA Customer Service address. No idea if the return address is relevant (and Aidan's mail is postmarked Los Angeles) but their mail being on the fridge on this set could be a hint that this is some alternate reality situation or maybe some kind of dream sequence, sort of like that time Sally envisioned herself alive and the house looked totally different. Maybe Josh is imagining having the perfect married life with Nora? People do occasionally tend to go back to 50s-TV when they envision happy home life, don't they? Just a guess, but if it means there's a chance we get to see greaser Aidan again, I'm in.

And then we went "upstairs," which isn't actually upstairs, but next-door on set. The decor for the upstairs didn't match the retro-red downstairs, so I'm assuming there are no upstairs scenes for whatever's happening with the red theme. We got to see Josh and Nora's bedroom, which includes a wedding photo over their bed.

And Aidan's old room, which Anna says Aidan doesn't like to go in because of what happened with Henry and the two girls.

And of course, the bathroom...

There was also a "secret room" that Anna wouldn't tell us about, but included weird black scribblings on the wall and a vanity with beauty products on it. Sorry for the blurry photo but it was the only one I managed to get of the scribbles (part of which looks like a drawing of a house):

Check out even more photos from the set in the pages ahead. And keep an eye out for Part 2 of this feature, which will include the video of the cast panel, and some details and spoilers about what's ahead for Season 4! Here's a tease of cast shenanigans to come! Sam Witwer does an impressive duck-face:

Click below for more photos! Or CLICK HERE for Part 2 of this feature, which includes the cast panel video!

Among the many TV series featured at Comic-Con this year was Syfy's Being Human, and I had the opportunity to sit down with the cast and showrunner to talk about what's ahead for Aidan, Josh, Sally and Nora when the series returns for its fourth season. It should go without saying that there will be spoilers for those who aren't caught up through Season 3, so please keep that in mind before reading on or watching the videos. Showrunner Anna Fricke and stars Kristen Hager, Sam Huntington and Sam Witwer had some interesting things to tell us about what's going on in the show, which is expected to return in 2014. And there are some great spoilery tidbits about the new season, so if you don't want to know anything about what's ahead, turn back now!

Meagan Rath was also among the cast present, but we didn't have a chance to talk to he, unfortunately, so our Sally updates are admittedly at a minimum. But we did learn some very interesting things about Josh, Nora and Aidan. Like the fact that Josh is stuck as a werewolf almost permanently. You may have remembered Season 3 leaving off with Nora finding Josh still as a werewolf the morning after the full moon. Well, that's the start of a new mystery. The only time he's not a werewolf is during the full moon, which is decidedly inconvenient, as that just so happens to be when his new bride is in werewolf form. But it does sound like there's a small window of time when the two are both human together. Meanwhile, it sounds like Aidan's approaching a big crossroads, and given everything he went through in Season 3, between Kenny and his new human girlfriend, there's certainly plenty of plot to be explored.

Below are the video interviews, which are well worth a look, not only because Fricke, Hager, Huntington and Witwer all offer some interesting commentary on the season ahead, but because Huntington and Witwer are both so funny. We also got Sam Huntington to offer up some vague clues about his participation in the Veronica Mars movie!

Anna Fricke - Showrunner

Some highlights from the above video:

"I think you guys are in for a real treat. The working theme is destiny, and the idea that everything happens for a reason, so it's really focusing a lot on what made these characters who they are, what brought them to this place, and how no matter what they do or how they try to change the monsters that they are, they belong here for a reason, and they've been thrown in together for a reason. So it's a lot about their friendship and their curses."

The start of the season will deal with the cliffhangers from the end of Season 3 and how they're dealing with things.

Meaghan Rath is obsessed with mermaids. But it doesn't sound like we'll be seeing any of them in Being Human anytime soon.

New werewolves (recently made).

We'll see more of Kenny.

There's more romance on the horizon. "The first day of shooting was like all love scenes." Some are fantasies and some are not.

One of the big messages of the season is that they're stronger together and they need each other. "It's better to be monsters together than to fix your problems and be apart."

Expect more flashbacks. We'll see more of Aidan's origin story. They're "playing with time a lot."

Kristen Hager - Nora

Josh is stuck in werewolf form all the time except for one day a month, during the full moon. There's a half an hour of overlap (or underlap?) where they're both in human form at the same time and that's when they can spend time with one another.

"She's trying desperately to get her husband back and is willing to do whatever it takes for that the happen, but is really at a loss and has no idea how to do it."

Hager likes the dark challenging scenes. She says it's a really special role to play a human and an animal.

There will be a lot more magic and witches in the new season. Or something of that nature, anyway.

Sam Huntington - Josh

Josh and Nora cross paths "like boners in the night." They get half an hour to go after each other. It's very special and sexy.

Huntington has learned a lot about how to act from working on Being Human.

All of the characters are trying to get back to each other. And it's beautiful. If they do it…

Sam Huntington can bite down on a water bottle.

There isn't a lot of improv in the show.

And, unrelated to Being Human, Sam Huntington couldn't talk much about reprising his role as Luke Haldeman for the Veronica Mars movie, but it sounds like Luke's still "has a lot of trouble." Huntington shot multiple scenes for the film. He actually shot one Saturday morning.

Sam Witwer - Aidan

Aidan's in the aftermath of last season. He let Kenny go. He killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. And there's a woman out there who looks like his wife from his living years (Colonial America, 1700's.). Aidan doesn't have a lot of plot work to do at the beginning of the season. He just gets to have scenes.

Things are set up with rapid-fire pace.

"Don't ask a ghost what she thinks of the seriousness of death. She's not going to give you the right answer."

The vampire plague survivors need to organize. Aidan doesn't want to get involved, but he has lots of opinions on how they're organizing.

We'll see more of the crime family from Season 1. "And speaking of crime families and old stuff, we are definitely going to see certain characters that no audience member is going to be able to predict may surface." He says he'll be delighted to work with certain actors again.

Aidan has always teetered over to the dark side. Witwer says that's going to be settled in a big way this season. He talks about Aidan being asked why he doesn't just "end it" if he's so miserable being a vampire. "We get to answer that definitively this year in a big way," Witwer says. The idea will be introduced through Mark Pelligrino. Bishop's always embraced being a vampire, but there's a pretty big weakness. This season, we discover what's at the heart of it.

Syfy viewers attending Comic Con this year will have the opportunity to attend panels for four of the network's series, three of which you may have seen and one that's on the way, courtesy of Ronald D. Moore. Set to be featured in panels at Comic Con in San Diego next month are Defiance, Helix, Being Human and Moore's upcoming new series Helix. Unlike most of the announcements we've heard so far, Syfy actually has specific details on where their panels are taking place at SDDC, as well as what time.

It's either Room 6A or the Indigo Ballroom for the four series panels set up at the convention. Defiance and Helix will take place in 6A on Friday, while Being Human and Warehouse 13 will be set up at the Indigo Ballroom in the Hilton Bayfront, where they were last year. The downside to that is that it's a building away from the Convention Center, and depending on the weather, you stand the risk of getting sunburned waiting on line outside. On the bright side, the bay view is gorgeous and Indigo's a pretty massive venue, so you might stand a better chance at getting a seat in there than you would at one of the smaller Convention Center rooms.

Here's the full schedule:

Ron Moore's Helix is the only yet-to-air Syfy series set up for a panel, and the fact that it hasn't even aired yet but is still getting its own panel is a mark of just how enthusiastic Syfy is at promoting it. And given the series' executive producer, I wouldn't be surprised if many people turned out to check out that panel. Ronald Moore is probably best known for developing the beloved Battlestar Galactica reboot, which helped put Syfy (or then "Scifi") on the map in terms of original programming. Whether or not Helix proves to be a winner remains to be seen, but the premise, which involves a group of scientists who are investigating a potential disease outbreak in an Arctic research facility, certainly sounds promising enough. Here's the teaser Syfy debuted back in April:

Keep up to date with our SDCC coverage here.

Syfy had some exciting news to announce today at the Upfronts in New York. Along with word that they're developing two new miniseries based on books, comes the announcement that Being Human has been renewed for Season 4. The announcement was made today, and comes just days after the supernatural drama series wrapped up its exciting third season.

The timing seemed perfect for the announcement about Being Human, when factoring in this week's finale. The series follows a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire who are living together and attempting to find some semblance of normalcy and humanity while battling their darker natures. (Spoilers if you haven't seen it yet!) The series left off with some interesting developments, including another big cliffhanger for Sally, who was last seen being dragged out of this plane and off to parts unknown. Josh and Aidan had their own issues to deal with, including Josh's wolfishness returning. The more things change, the more they stay the same, am I right? Fortunately, things will be staying the same - likely in dramatic, unpredictable and exciting fashion - for Being Human in Season 4, which will presumably air next year.

In terms of new content on the horizon, Deadline reports that Syfy is developing miniseries adaptations of Larry Niven's Ringworld and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. These two projects join miniseries for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, Stephen King's Eyes of The Dragon and Darkfall among the miniseries also in development at the cable channel.

Ringworld was published in 1970 and focuses on the discovery of a world built to be three million times the area of Earth and holds remnants of ancient advanced civilizations. With gravity, high walls and good proximity to the sun, the place could be habitable for humans living on a doomed planet Earth. The project is being co-produced by MGM Television and Universal Cable Productions (UCP).

Childhood's End was published in 1953 and tells the story of an alien race that shows up on Earth and fixes mankind's biggest problems, eliminating poverty and ending war, effectively unifying the planet. What's the downside to this? Apparently, lack of conflict also yield's lack of man's attempts to strive for greatness. Is this a symptom of peace or something these Overlord's have instigated for their own agenda? I don't know, I haven't read the book, but with a premise like that, I want to! And it sounds like a great story to adapt for a miniseries.

The BBC Three hit that spawned a U.S. version - as well as gaining a following among American audiences on BBC America, Being Human - has an end game in sight. Today the BBC announced that the show will be wrapping up at the end of the current fifth season, and the BBC promises an “apocalyptic end”.

Being Human is an off-beat drama with comedic aspects that centers on three roommates, all of whom are supernatural beings in a different way. One is a vampire, one a werewolf, and the third a ghost, and all three attempt to blend into the world of ordinary humans while getting along with each other as well. The series premiered in 2008 in the U.K. and then came over to BBC America in 2009 where it was a success. Syfy then adapted the series to a new U.S. version which is currently airing Season 3.

The main characters on the show have fluctuated, with the only star of the pilot to go ahead into the series, Russell Tovey, leaving the show in Season 4. The current cast of the series is set to finish out the last season, in which Deadline reports the supernatural characters will come face to face with the Devil himself – hence the reference to the apocalyptic ending I would imagine.

The current season just premiered on February 3rd, so the news that it will be the last comes relatively early and allows plenty of time for all of the loose ends to be wrapped up. Netflix has the series for those who didn’t catch it on BBC America.

Being Human is back. The U.S. adaptation of the popular British drama is moving into its third season tonight, bringing us back to the supernatural shenanigans of Aidan, Sally and Josh, the vampire, the ghost and the werewolf, all of whom left off separated and in precarious positions at the end of Season 2, to put it mildly. The third season premiere resolves the cliffhangers and introduces some very interesting developments to the plot.

This review includes some vague spoilers about the third season premiere. In short, if you don't want to know if anyone dies (or re-dies, since two of the lead characters were technically sort of dead already), read no further. Beyond that, we'll keep the major spoilers to a minimum.

Season 2 left off with werewolves Josh (Sam Huntington) and Nora (Kristen Hager) involved in an altercation with Josh's maker Ray. While I won't get into the specifics as to how that's resolved, I will say that Josh and Nora did walk away from the altercation and have been spending the last year or so trying to find Sally (Meaghan Rath), who went to limbo to find fellow ghosts Stevie and Nick. Nora and Josh don't know where Aidan is, but because they have even less to go on with him, they're focusing their attention on visiting psychics to try to communicate with Sally. Josh seems to be at the end of his rope with the psychics, and his frustration and sarcasm on the matter adds a bit of comic relief to the premiere, which is otherwise full of drama and suspense.Their search does finally lead to something when they find Donna (Amy Aquino), a woman with the power to help them.

As for Aidan (Sam Witwer - the guy behind the beard in the above photo), he's also alive (relatively speaking) but not in good shape, having been buried in the ground. More than a year later, he's parched and borderline insane, which is kind of reminiscent of that time in Angel when he was buried alive at sea. As you might surmise, his time underground is coming to an end, but his return to the land of the living isn't exactly a picnic.

The first two episodes of Season 3 introduce a couple of major game-changers for this show, including the arrival of Liam (Xander Berkeley), the father of the werewolf twins that Josh and Nora got involved with last season. There's also an interesting development among the vampire community, which should present some major challenges for Aidan, to put it mildly. And those are just a few vague hints about what's ahead.

Season 2 saw the lead characters divided and too caught up with their own urges and natures to really look to each other for the support they needed, and we all saw where that led them. I doubt I'm alone in hoping Season 3 will bring this trio closer together, because it's their friendship that really sets Sally, Aidan and Josh apart from each of their own kind, and it's the dynamic of the characters that sets Being Human apart from some other dramas. They're at their best when they're on screen together. Signs point to things headed in a more united direction, but it's really too soon to say for sure and that may just be my optimism speculating. What is certain is that Season 3 gets off to an exciting start, with a few surprises worked into the premiere episode, and even more developments in the one that follows. Big developments.

From the first couple of episodes, Being Human is off to a good start for its third season. What's more, the show remains true to form in working humor, a little bit of warmth among the characters and the supernatural element into the drama about a group of young (mostly) people trying to find their place in the world. In that respect, Being Human remains one of the best supernatural shows on television, and the way things are already heading this year, Season 3 could end up being this show's best yet.

Being Human Season 3 premieres Monday, January 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

Twenty years ago, the Sci-Fi Channel debuted on U.S. cable television, and since then, the channel has offered us some of the more imaginative programming on television, whether it fall under actual science fiction, fantasy, reality or paranormal. Or wrestling. Don't forget wrestling! Syfy's celebrating its 20th Anniversary on television with a special that's set to air tonight and will feature the stars of some of its beloved shows.

People might complain that Syfy doesn't air enough sci-fi (or that not enough people tune in to appreciate what sci-fi the channel airs), but I'm hopeful the upcoming Defiance will follow in the path of shows like Battlestar Galactica in not only being a must-watch science fiction series on Syfy, but also finding an audience. Whether or not either is the case remains to be seen. In the meantime, as a fan of shows like Being Human and Face Off, and of other programming that's aired on the cable channel over the course of its existence, I think it's fair to say there's nothing quite like Syfy on cable.

Tonight (December 10) at 9:00 p.m., Syfy will air the 20th Anniversary Special, which features a number of stars from the channel's past and present series as they look back at the history of the channel.

Amanda Tapping (Stargate, Sanctuary), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) and Sam Witwer (Being Human, BSG) are among the stars featured in the trailer above, and there are even more featured in the video below.

It looks like this'll be a great special for anyone with a fondness of Sci-Fi/Syfy over the course of the channel's two decades of existence. Technically, Sci-Fi launched in September 24, 1992, but I'm thinking the special will get a bit more attention airing now when things are slowing down for TV in anticipation of the winter hiatus.

Syfy is going hard and heavy with its winter programming slate. The network will introduce several new programs—mostly lower budget reality fodder—and will also be bringing back a slew of old favorites in January and February, as well as Haunted Collector, which will hit the schedule in March.

Syfy’s winter programming will begin just after New Year’s, with Season 5 of the popular fantasy program, Merlin, returning to the schedule. January 14 will be a big day for the cable network, with Season 3 of Lost Girl and Being Human premiering alongside the new series, Continuum, which is a police drama with a time traveling component. Reality series Face Off and Total Blackout will air on Tuesday, January 15, and the following evening will see Ghost Hunters return for Season 9. If the latter program is getting a little stale, Syfy is also introducing Ghost Mine on Wednesday nights, which will follow a haunted abandoned mine that is reopening for business. If one of your favorites hasn’t been listed yet, bear with me, because we are just now getting into February.

February doesn’t have a lot of original fodder, but it will be notable for two new original series. Robot Combat League--which I’ve been told is reminiscent of Battle Bots--will premiere on February 26. Rounding out February will be the new series, Stranded, which will follow paranormal and psychological experiments. That show will hit the schedule on February 27. You can check out the full list of dates and premiere times, below.

Syfy’s Being Human is about to wrap up its second season, and based on this clip, one of the characters is about to take some fairly drastic measures in an effort to rid them of their predicament. But will they go through with it? Check out the clip ahead to see the situation being discussed, and consider this the end of the spoiler-free-zone!?

Recently, Josh learned that to “cure” himself of his werewolfishness, he must kill the werewolf that made him. The clip below has Josh and Sally discussing Josh’s apparent plot to kill Ray, which may involve a very big gun.

I know we’ve seen this show take some seriously dark turns, but I have a hard time believing Josh will really go through with this. It’s not even the matter of Josh being cured that I can’t see happening (at least, not this early in the series). It’s him becoming a murderer to save himself. It would be one thing if he killed Ray while both of them were in werewolf-form, but shooting him while he’s still human is something he’d have to live with for the rest of his life. Maybe he’ll try to justify it by saying that killing Ray could spare other lives, what with the risk of him hurting other people if he stays a werewolf. Julia’s recent demise would certainly factor in there. Still, I’m betting/hoping he walks away from this idea. ?

Being Human’s Season 2 finale airs Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

Last night’s episode of Syfy’s Being Human seemed especially intense, with some interesting developments for each of the main characters. The video clip we have to show you from next Monday night’s episode is actually a bit more spoilery than usual and has to do with what’s ahead for Sally. So consider yourselves spoiler warned!

Last night, we found out what’s been stalking Sally. Actually, two things were stalking her, though one was only a recent development. The fact that Danny was dead, having been killed in prison, seemed to come out of nowhere and I’m actually kind of surprised they didn’t take that story through a couple of episodes. Instead, he appeared, did some poltergeist pranks, attempted to kill Sally (again) and was promptly offed by the Reaper, which is the black shadow man that’s been dropping in on Sally all season. She’s apparently on his list and as of last night, it was looking like he was set to add her to his zap-list. The video below reveals his other plans...

It’s good to see Aidan giving Sally some attention, given everything she’s going through. Granted, he’s had his hands full, what with killing werewolves and all. As for Sally, will she take over the Reaper’s job and start zapping mischievous ghosts into oblivion? We’ll find out when “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” airs next Monday (March 5) at 9:00 p.m. on Syfy.

One of the things Syfy’s Being Human continues to do well is to combine the supernatural element with realistic and relatable life issues. Take Sally’s interactions with her mother last night. Not only did “Mama Said There’d Be Decades Like This” address the fact that Sally actually has parents, but it had her dealing with the notion that she may not know them as well as she thought she did. That’s part of growing up, for some, and it’s something people come to deal with at different times in their life... or in Sally’s case, her death.

While last night’s episode dealt, in part, with Sally’s family, next Monday’s episode may focus somewhat on a bit of her past. The clip below has her dealing with what seems like a typically unruly poltergeist, however at one point, she seems to suspect that she may have a closer connection with it...

Is Danny dead and haunting Sally as a poltergeist? That would certainly make for an interesting twist, though it seems kind of soon after her encounter with her mother for her to be meeting yet another person from her life in the afterlife. We’ll have to wait to find out what’s going on here.

Being Human airs at Mondays at 9:00 p.m. Et on Syfy.

While Syfy’s Being Human is really just getting going on its second season, Syfy has good news to those of us who tune in every week to see what kind of trouble Aidan, Josh and Sally are getting up to. The series will return for a third season!

Based on a U.K. series by the same name, Being Human follows three young adults, each of whom are dealing with supernatural natures. Aidan is a vampire, who struggles with his appetite for human blood and tries to live off bagged blood from the hospital where he works. Josh is a werewolf who was once on track to become a doctor but now wants to find a way to cure himself. And Sally is a ghost, who is still coming to grips with life beyond death.

Just yesterday, we shared a very interesting clip from next Monday’s episode. While we have “Addicted to Love” to look forward to for Season 2, Syfy has already decided to move forward with a third season for the series, giving the drama a 13-episode order for Season 3. Viewership is up by 27%, with the last new episode bringing in 1.4 million adults 25-54 in the Live +7 data.

Slightly more than half of the show’s viewers, which according to Syfy, makes Being Human the most female-skewing scripted series ever for the network. As I’m part of the 52%, I’ll say that it’s great to hear the series will definitely be back for another season. It doesn’t fill the void left by Battlestar Galactica, and I wouldn’t mind another high-quality space-drama on the network, but Being Human is smart, sharp and fun, with a great cast, which includes BSG’s Sam Witwer, as well as Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington.

Being Human isn't the only Syfy series coming back for a third season. Special effects make-up competition series Face Off was also recently renewed for Season 3.

Just last night I was commenting on how Season 2 of Being Human was shaping up to be a great one. One particular twist threw me for a loop and over all, the episode came together really nicely. The clip I have to share with you from next Monday’s episode has a line from Josh that, as a 24 fan, had me laughing out loud.

On the subject of last night’s twist (stop reading if you’re not caught up on Season 2 of Being Human through episode 3 - “All out of Blood”!), how awkward was that morning after between Josh, his former fiancé Julia, Nora and Aidan? Poor everyone, including Nora! Josh dumped Julia because he didn’t want to hurt her, then started seeing Nora, whom he did end up hurting and turning into a werewolf, and now he’s faced with the woman he loved too much to hurt alongside the woman he now loves but didn’t leave and did hurt. Meanwhile, Aidan had no idea that the woman he’d been going at it with was, in fact, his closest friend’s former fiancé. Talk about a drama. Then, throw in Aidan’s choice to cut Julia loose and make light of their brief but hot relationship in an effort to protect her. Julia was dumped twice for her own safety. Little does she know, it’s probably for the best.

Moving on to next Monday’s episode, the clip below is from “(I Loathe You) For Sentimental Reasons” and has Josh, Aidan and Sally talking about Josh’s wolf-issues and some incident he got himself involved in after being spotted by a fellow werewolf.

“It’s like Jack Bauer dating Chloe. You kind of want to see it but... not really.”

I love the dialogue in this show.

Being Human airs Mondays at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

If Aidan, Josh and Sally were to send a Christmas card out, what would it look like? This photo paints a pretty good picture of the happy family on Syfy’s Being Human. No fangs. No fur. No Grudge-like ghost-rage. It’s smiles all around for the vampire, the ghost and the werewolf.

This is one for the refrigerator! Being Human star Sam Huntington tweeted this photo, along with the message “Merry Christmas, from our home to yours...”

It actually looks like a photo of a photo, judging by the reflection of the hand with the camera. Could this adorable family portrait have made it into a frame? Possibly. Aidan (Sam Witwer) looks happy, seated on the stool, while Josh (Sam Huntington) does the fist-to-the-chin grin, and Sally (Maeghan Rath) seems to be going for a sort of Marilyn pose, with her sweater shrugged off.

Being Human Season 2 premieres January 16th on Syfy. In the meantime, it’s good to see the cast smiling and as cozy as ever. And if you're looking to get caught up on the series, there's a marathon airing on Syfy starting at noon EST today (Monday, Dec. 26).

We’re getting closer and closer to the return of Syfy’s Being Human for its second season. Just yesterday we shared the new trailer with you, which revealed, among other things, how Sally’s been experimenting. And today the new poster for Season 2 has surfaced online.

In a little over a month, Being Human returns for Season 2, and we’ll see how Sally (the ghost), Aidan (the vampire) and Josh (the werewolf) are managing as they attempt to live together and lead normal lives. Watch the most recent trailer here to see how well that’s not working out for them. Meanwhile, Meaghan Rath, who plays Sally in the Syfy series, tweeted the poster for Season 2 today:

As you might have noticed, they're all staring straight at the camera, Aidan has some blood by his mouth, Josh’s claws are out (and he seems to have ripped his shirt), and Sally’s looking a bit less house-bound as we can barely see her trademark sweater. What’s more, it looks like there are other people laying near them and they appear to be naked and in some cases, bitten or scratched up. If temptation is, in fact, a beast, these guys may not be strong enough to battle it.

Being Human Season 2 premieres Monday, January 16th at 9/8c.

Following the trend of remaking British series for a North American audience, Syfy premiered Being Human last January. Based on Toby Whithouse’s U.K. series by the same name, Syfy’s Being Human follows a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf who form an unlikely friendship while also trying to deal with their supernatural natures.

Created by Toby Whithouse and developed by Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke, Syfy’s Being Human follows Aidan (Sam Witwer), Josh (Sam Huntington) and Sally (Meaghan Rath), three young-adult friends who live together in a house in Boston. They also happen to be a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, respectively and none of them is embracing their true nature. The drama follows their attempts to find some semblance of normalcy in their lives, which is what makes their unlikely friendship work so well.

As a vampire, Aidan doesn’t age and is thus, the oldest of the group by far. As Season 1 progresses, we come to understand that, while Aidan now works as a nurse and is attempting to live mostly off hospital blood, that wasn’t always a case. We’re seeing him at a time in his life when he’s trying to ignore his natural vampire urges and avoid hurting people. Of course, things don’t always go as planned, and part of that has to do with Bishop (Mark Pellegrino), his (very) old friend, who is also a vampire.

Josh lived a normal life and was prepared to become a doctor when he was bitten by a werewolf. He’s now attempting to understand and get a grip on his wolfishness. Having left his family and fiance behind, he’s not only faced with the dangers he presents to others and the dangers that are presented to him because of what he is, he’s also trying to start his life over and find a balance between being a werewolf and being a person. This is really the heart of the story, and it applies to both Aidan and Sally as well.

Sally is recently dead and now “living” as a ghost, with minimal interactions with people in the outside world. Josh and Aidan are excluded from this. As supernatural beings, they can see and hear her. For Sally, Season 1 is about understanding her death, uncovering the truth about how she died and dealing with moving on beyond being a living human being. The objective for Sally seems as much about keeping her grip on her humanity as it is figuring out how to let go of the life she had so that she can move on.

The chemistry between Huntington, Witwer, and Rath comes through nicely as we begin to see the friendship between their characters develop over the course of the season. As they’re all dealing with their own personal issues, each individualized by their supernatural nature, there’s enough story to go around and somehow, it all flows together nicely, despite the characters’ differences. The metaphor of growing up and becoming responsible adults is worked into the story, which grounds the series nicely, setting it among some of the other great shows that focus on the topic of budding adulthood. There’s also a fair amount of gore, violence and some sexy stuff thrown in to keep things interesting. On a scale of Twilight to True Blood, I’d put Being Human somewhere in the middle as far as sex and blood go.

The blu-ray set consists of four discs, packed nicely into a relatively thin cardboard case. I don’t love that they’ve stacked one disc on top of another, but it beats an overly bulky case. The series looks great on blu-ray. The use of color and particularly the saturation, stands out nicely, especially in the daylight scenes. As for the bonus features, while there aren’t any commentaries, there’s more than enough behind-the-scenes content for fans of the show.

The “Making of Being Human” feature offers a lengthy look at the series, the characters and what goes into making the show. This includes seeing Josh get his transformation-make-up done, and hearing what the cast has to say about the roles they play on the series. The “What Would You Choose” featurette and “additional interviews” are more or less an extension of the cast’s thoughts on the show as they talk about being a ghost, a vampire or a werewolf. Those fans who weren’t able to make it to Comic Con in San Diego last July will get to see the recording of the Being Human panel, which has the cast joking around and Witwer doing his hilarious Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation.

If you’re a fan of Being Human, the first season is certainly worth owning and revisiting, especially for those of us who are eagerly awaiting the series’ second season. It’s fair to argue that Being Human is one small part of Syfy’s continued veering away from actual science fiction, but that aside, Being Human is a fun show. The characters are interesting and relatable and the story is actually executed well. It plays on the current trend of vampires and werewolves while also offering a fresh take on the subject (for those who haven’t seen the original series, anyway).

Length: 572 min.

Distributor: Entertainment One

Release Date: 11/15/11

Starring: Sam Huntington, Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Mark Pellegrino

Created by: Toby Whithouse

Developed by: Jeremy Carver, Anna Fricke

Following the recent news that Syfy set the official date for Being Human’s second season premiere, comes a new preview video, which looks back at the first season and then looks ahead at what Aidan, Josh and Sally will be dealing with when the series resumes this January.

Being Human is based on a British series and follows a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who are all living together despite their supernatural differences, and trying to attempt to hang on to their humanity as they deal with the urges, perks and drawbacks of being what they are.

Most of what’s shown in the video below is a recap of Season 1. In fact, less than a minute of the 3 minutes and 11 seconds of video is from Season 2, however you will get to see some quick glimpses of the trouble they’re getting into when the series resumes next year.

Was that Aidan dressed in hospital scrubs with blood all over his face? Not good!

Being Human returns for Season 2 on Monday, January 16th at 9:00 p.m. on Syfy.

We knew Being Human was coming back for Season 2, and that when the Syfy drama returned, it would premiere in January. Now we have an exact date. The vampire, the werewolf, and the ghost will be back in the house come January. Get the date ahead, and watch the Season 2 teaser if you haven’t seen it already!

Being Human is based on a British TV series and follows three young adults who are living together and friends, despite being a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire. When we spoke with series developers/executive producers Anna Fricke and Jeremy Carver at Comic Con last July, they spoke a bit about where Aidan, Josh and Sally will be next season, stating “The more human you try to be, the more monstrous you become,” which I think means we shouldn’t expect these guys to overcome their inner demons anytime soon.

The series’ start date for Season 2 is Monday, January 16th at 9:00 p.m.. The second season will consist of 13 episodes. Here's NBC's official description: ?

The fact that I’m wearing my green Being Human t-shirt as I type this makes me feel like a major geek right now, but only slightly more geeky than I usually feel, regardless of what t-shirt I happen to be wearing. Here's the teaser, in case you haven't seen it already.

Without a moment's hesitation I can declare that the third season of the original Being Human is the best one yet. In just eight episodes, we get so much character growth and story advancement, it's almost overwhelming. To think that American shows usually take 22 episodes to cover this kind of ground makes the accomplishment even more monumental. If you're new to Being Human, this is also a great stepping-on point. The gang has moved to a new house and is trying to start their lives over, but the past has a way of finding you no matter where you might hide. Our favorite vampire, ghost, and werewolves are back, and the drama, excitement, and danger of their world is better than ever.

The third series of the original Being Human was very much about growing up. In a lot of ways, it paralleled most people's experiences as they move away from their childhood home, find love, and settle into their new lives to start a family. It's also about making more adult decisions and being mature and responsible enough to face the consequences for our actions...or, more specifically, the mistakes that we've made.

It's the latter that consumes much of Mitchell's (Aidan Turner) journey throughout the series. The resident vampire starts by performing an act of heroism in saving Annie from Purgatory. This leads to an infatuation with him on her part, and the two set up the illusion of a real relationship. On the surface, it would appear to be ideal, as neither will ever age or die (again). But there's one little problem.

Mitchell is still dealing with the aftermath of the "Box Tunnel Twenty" massacre. He's kept his role in this murderous rampage a secret from his friends, and that wedge continues to grow throughout the series. It doesn't help that Annie is independently trying to investigate the real culprit of this crime, nor that Nina is so new to the world of the supernatural that she's not fully aware of the consequences of abiding by man's laws. In other words, while Nina (Sinead Keenan) thinks the right thing to do would be for Mitchell to turn himself in, doing so would wreak havoc in the vampire community and endanger all of the supernaturals. He was born in 1893, after all. His modern-day records are fabricated. Keeping this fact away from the humans is in all of their best interests.

George (Russell Tovey), perhaps more than any of the other characters, is experiencing that character maturation I was talking about. What started as a scared kid, afraid and in near-denial about his werewolf affliction, has grown into a loving partner and soon-to-be father. It's because of Nina's pregnancy, and that they are both werewolves, that George decides to seek out other lycanthropes and learn more about their kind. Of particular concern is if Nina and/or the baby can survive a werewolf birth.

They find a father-and-son pair of werewolves who consider themselves vampire hunters. But when they're told that the son was born a werewolf, they find a newfound sense of hope. But is everything as it seems, or is there perhaps a darker secret lurking beneath the surface of this story?

In a surprise move, the vampire Herrick (Jason Watkins) returns to the series. Thought dead through what definitely was a decapitation, the mystery surrounding his apparent resurrection becomes a near-obsession for Mitchell. While in Purgatory to save Annie, Mitchell encountered another ghost, Lia, who prophesied that he would die soon via a "wolf-shaped bullet." Hoping to avoid death, Mitchell becomes singularly driven and haunted by this prophecy. He wants to know how Herrick cheated death, though Herrick doesn't appear to be himself and has no recollection of how he might have come back to life.

As George looks forward to some semblance of normalcy with Nina, Mitchell seems to be withdrawing more and more into his own despair and sense of self-loathing. He's torn up by his role in the "Box Tunnel Twenty" massacre, and yet obsessed with avoiding death. More significantly, he is keeping the details of both of these things from George, Nina, and even Annie (Leona Crichlow), who's so drawn to him.

Annie's story this series is a continuation of her emotional growth and discovery of her internal strength and worth as a human being. It's a bit of a step backward for her when she develops what can only be described as a school-girl crush on Mitchell, but he reciprocates as well, though neither of them are falling into one another's arms for the right reasons.

In a lighter, and yet still sad, episode, we see how the Being Human universe handles the undead, and it's got to be the most tragic take I've ever seen. Imagine continuing to be as aware as you've ever been, while watching your body continue to rot and die around you. Eventually, it will take you with it when it can no longer function. Having the resident zombie be a shallow party girl only makes her involvement with Annie and the main cast even funnier. Of course, we can lay her very existence at Mitchell's doorstep again, though this time it's indirectly his fault.

The final moments of the series do a beautiful job of both setting up even higher stakes for a fourth series and bringing closure to the journeys that have made up this season. It's a bloody and dark final episode with a healthy body count, but every beat is emotionally powerful and speaks to the larger story. Where we go from here is an absolute mystery, but one I couldn't be more excited about. As much as I appreciate what the Syfy version of Being Human is doing, it simply can't yet compare to the genius that is being created in the original iteration of the concept. Thank goodness it was renewed and we can continue to laugh and cry with our favorite supernatural beings.

For a three-disc Blu-ray set, would it have hurt to throw us a little more by way of extra material? The set provides about 11 minutes of deleted scenes that are the usual extraneous and redundant character moments, supplemented 20 minutes of "Extended Cast Interviews." These, at least, give us an idea what the four principal actors think about the stories, the other characters, and the major beats of the series. In fact, if you haven't watched the episodes yet, avoid this as it will spoil all the surprises.

Probably the most fun is found in a short set tour led by Sinead Keenan. As the characters relocated to a new city and a new house, it was fun seeing how this new set looks behind the cameras. It reveals a little of the movie-making magic, but nothing that anyone who's ever watched a movie or television show doesn't already know. Still, on a release with such slim pickings, you have to appreciate what little is there, and Keenan is just charming enough to pull this one off.

Length: 499 min.

Rated: Not rated

Distributor: BBC Warner

Release Date: 5/03/11

Starring: Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner, Sinead Keenan

Directed by: Colin Teague, Philip John, Daniel O'Hara

Produced by: Philip Trethowan, Rob Pursey, Toby Whithouse

Written by: Toby Whithouse, Brian Dooley, Jamie Mathieson, John Jackson, Sarah Phelps, Lisa McGee

Syfy’s Being Human wrapped up its first season tonight with an episode that boiled slowly, delivering some great moments. Some issues were resolved, while others were opened up and left to breath between now and Season 2.

In terms of the production quality for tonight’s episode, the jumps from past to present worked well as we were shown the beginning of Josh and Aidan’s relationship. There was one nearly seamless transition from a past conversation to the present that worked particularly well as both scenes took place in the courtyard at the hospital. Loved it.

What I didn’t love were the awkward freeze-frames during the fight between Aidan and Bishop. Perhaps they were going for that sort of graphic-novel/comic-booky effect, but it just made me feel like my DVR was freezing up. That’s my biggest criticism in terms of production but the few extra seconds we got of Josh’s transformation and the look on his wolfy face when he peered at Nora under the door made up for that.

“Take your life back, for both of us.”

The sexy vampire thing has been done quite a bit on TV these days and Being Human’s no exception to that. There have been a few steamy vampire scenes during the course of this series’ first season. Tonight, we saw the other side of the coin. Celene is no longer the gorgeous, healthy twenty-something girl with a pulsing artery just itching to be drained by a dreamy vampire. Sure, she’s still beautiful but she’s aged and dying of cancer. Seeing Aidan’s love for her, still just as strong as it was when she was younger showed the human side to their story. I only wish we had one or two more episodes to get to know past and present Celine as I think that might have made her sacrifice more meaningful in the end.

While Celine gave Aidan all of her blood (and essentially what was left of her life) in order to heal him, Bishop cured his burns by feeding off one of his fellow police officers. Using Josh as a messenger, Bishop staged a throw-down with Aidan. The two fought it out while occasionally-semi-corporeal Sally watched on, proving useful at distracting Bishop with a stake that she eventually dropped when he hissed at her. It was enough to give Aidan the advantage he needed to get some wire (or whatever that metal thing was) around Bishop’s neck.

Bishop’s beheading was almost sad as Aidan seemed to know what he was letting go of. On one hand, he’s free from the ties that bound him to his maker. On the other hand, Bishop was a friend to him for a long time and they have a lot of history together. This brings closure to Aidan and Bishop’s story, but on the downside, there’s no more Bishop. Perhaps he’ll resurface in a flashback or a resurrection.

“I felt like I was finally seeing you.”

Josh was going to kill Bishop. He had it all planned out with Sally. She was going to help him get Bishop into the basement room at the hospital and once Josh transformed, Bishop’s death was inevitable. Sally saved Josh from becoming a murderer by locking him in by himself and it was just as well. Aidan needed to be the one to do that job.

Believing there was a good chance he was going to die when he tried to kill Bishop, Josh gave Nora a goodbye/I’m sorry/I have family obligations letter. From his perspective, the note was the best way he could say goodbye. From her perspective, it probably looked like he was ducking out because he couldn’t deal with the whole pregnancy situation.

Nora found Josh in the basement mid-transformation and tried to help him. He was able to push her out of the room before he went full werewolf but not without scratching her. She was also having serious cramps just as Josh started to transform, which seem to indicate that the baby is also transforming in the womb during the full moon.

“I’m practically a person, except not at all.”

Sally missed her door. After Aidan was attacked she stayed by his side and when he finally convinced her to go back to her door, it was gone. Interestingly enough, as I mentioned earlier, she’s sort of corporeal now. At the very least, she can touch things, so that’s useful. The bulk of Sally’s participation in tonight’s episode had to do with what Josh and Aidan were going through and in that respect, our ghost-girl shined. She deserves to go through her door but while she’s here, she’s bringing some much needed perspective to Josh and Aidan. Saving Josh from being the one to kill Bishop was huge, as was standing up to Bishop despite her (unnecessary) fear.

Sally may not be able to do everything that a normal person can but she is most definitely a person. She has a perspective and an effect on Josh and Aidan that proved vital tonight. What's more, she loves them. What's more human than that?

“Don’t look back in anger.”

In terms of looking forward to Season 2, there are a number of things left open for us. Nora knows Josh is a werewolf and is sticking by him. Josh doesn’t know Nora got scratched, so there’s that revelation to deal with. Sally has closure with Danny but she brought up the fact that there were family members and other people in her life, so perhaps we’ll be seeing her deal with other unfinished business as she waits for a second chance at heaven.

Aidan killing Bishop puts him into position to be the leader. He got a visit from Haggemen at the end of the episode and references to a “she” who wants to meet Aidan were made.

I loved the fitting Oasis song at the end of the episode, but Royal Wood’s “Juliet” (playing when Nora read the letter from Josh) wins for favorite song of the night.

The season finale ended with both hints at future problems and notes of optimism. Sure, Nora’s scratched, Sally’s door is gone and Aidan may be the new Vampire leader of Boston, but it’s not all doom and gloom for Josh, Sally and Aidan. The talk of joining one of those local farm delivery programs, no matter how impractical it would be, as only one of them eats, shows that they have hope for normalcy and contentment… and kale. Lots of kale.

If you thought this week’s installment of Syfy’s Being Human was dramatic, wait until you see this clip we have to show you from next Monday night’s episode. This clip contains a pretty big spoiler, but if you watched the preview that aired immediately following Monday’s episode, you already have an idea of what’s coming. Still, consider yourselves warned!

This week’s episode of Being Human focused heavily on Aidan and the tricky vampire politics he and Bishop are dealing with. I’m sure we’ll see more from Aidan and Bishop next week (especially given the episode title: “Going Dutch”) but this clip focuses on Josh and Nora and a major issue they have to deal with.

So, it would seem Josh and Nora’s quickie at the hospital had some major consequences. Of course, Josh handled the news terribly but in all fairness, he’s probably very concerned about the wolfish traits he may have passed on to the child, as opposed to this just being a typical panicked reaction to an unplanned pregnancy. Will he tell Nora his big secret?

Being Human airs Mondays at 9/8c on Syfy.

Tonight’s episode of Being Human made me think of one of my other favorite TV series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand. One of the things I love about the Starz series is that the line between the good guys and the bad guys isn’t drawn straight across the board. There’s a pecking order and everyone has someone to answer to. The enslaved gladiators submit to their masters and the masters answer to people ranked higher than they are.

I won't dig too deeply into my thoughts on Spartcus' villains Batiatus and Lucretia here. The point I'm trying to make is, it's easy to support the underdog but it can be just as fun to support the villain when it turns out they have their own, higher ranked dog to submit to. Sometimes the bad guys have their own bad guys. This appears to be the case among the vampires in Being Human, and I love that because it gives us a way to take Bishop’s side, if only for a little while.

“That’s the thing about forever; the choices you make, the people you lose, your mistakes are indelible, with no sweet death to erase your own memory.”

Bishop may be the top dog in Boston but he’s not without his own people to answer to. The Dutch have awoken. Lead by Haggeman, The Dutch are a group of elderly vampires that hibernate on an Amish farm in Pennsylvania and wake up every half a century. We were introduced to them through flashbacks as well as the present day and it’s evident that they live a very puritan Vampire lifestyle. They’re unevolved and resistant to change.

The flashbacks took us back to 1955, where Aidan was apparently a greaser-type, complete with a pompadour and a ridiculously tight (but not unpleasant to look at) white t-shirt. Bishop was more the older square-ish type. Interestingly enough, his and Aidan’s roles were somewhat reversed at that time. While Bishop was courting a human (this show apparently has a thing for good-looking blonde nurses), Aidan scoffed at his maker’s choice in alternate lifestyles.

Things didn’t work out for Bishop and Jane-the-nurse, despite how in love they seemed to be. The Dutch found out about it, killed Bishop’s maker as a punishment and offered Bishop the run of Boston in exchange for walking away from the nurse. Bishop inevitably took the deal and killed Jane for good measure.

Back in the present, Aidan was put in a tricky situation. The Dutch have awoken again and while Aidan tries to make Rebecca understand why he had to put down her “son,” he also has to deal with the fact that Bishop has kidnapped Josh and is planning to force him to fight with an older werewolf. This kind of “Dog-fighting” is apparently part of vampire culture. The dog fight is Bishop’s attempt to impress/pacify the Dutch.

While Josh befriends the older werewolf-man known as The Professor, who’s been stuck down in a dirty old basement for fifteen years doing research on the other werewolves he’s been forced to kill, Aidan tries to get his friend out. In the end, he strikes a deal with Bishop. He’ll return to the fold in exchange for Josh being freed. Bishop takes the deal, sort of. Josh ended up fighting (and killing) the old werewolf but after he won, he was freed rather than being held captive to replace the man.

That covers the meat of the story. Now for some really interesting tidbits…

Bishop’s maker was killed by The Dutch as a punishment for Bishop deviating from the traditional vampire lifestyle. At the end of tonight’s episode, Bishop welcomed Aidan back and then announced to him that in all likelihood, the Dutch were planning to kill him tomorrow (presumably as a punishment for Aidan's bad behavior, similarly to how Bishop's maker was killed). He did say things get back to The Dutch easily. Can we assume Marcus filled them in on what Aidan’s been up to? It probably doesn’t matter how they know. What does matter is how Bishop and Aidan are going to deal with this. As bad as it is to think of Aidan forced to be Bishop’s right-hand man again, we saw a different side of Bishop tonight. I can't imagine he'd really be killed off (this early on). I certainly hope that's not the case, but we'll have to see how they manage to work this out.

What I found most interesting about the Bishop/Jane story was his decision to kill her. Was that part of the unspecified arrangement made with Haggeman or did he do that because he couldn’t bring himself to leave her and he didn’t want to disregard her wishes and turn her? He said he respected her humanity. Maybe in some weird, twisted (and yeah, evil) way, killing her as opposed to turning her was his way of honoring her wishes. Or maybe he just wanted to make a clean job of the break-up.

If tonight’s episode was a test of each cast member’s ability to carry a dramatic scene, everyone passed with flying colors. From Sally pleading to Aidan to help Josh, to Rebecca dealing with her grief over Bernie’s death, and her brief confrontation with Sally (interesting to see their paths cross), to Josh connecting with The Professor and all of the back-story with Aidan and Bishop, there were plenty of heavy moments and none of the cast faltered in the slightest. The special effects people also deserve major credit for their “performance” in delivering the brief but excellent werewolf scene.

I'm excited to see how Bishop and Aidan deal with The Dutch and eager for more opportunity to support Bishop. Tonight's bit of back-story on him was intriguing to say the least. While he may still pose a threat to Aidan's attempt to live a clean life, I love that he's not just another one-dimentional villain and I can't wait to learn more about him.

One thing that makes Josh and Aidan so interesting as characters is that on one hand, they know they’re monsters and a danger to people, but on the other hand, they still can’t seem to keep from reaching out and forming connections. I suppose that’s part of what makes Being Human so interesting. If they were to keep to themselves completely, we wouldn’t have stories like the ones we saw play out tonight.

“Dracula had it easy. He drank. He killed. End of story. He wasn’t interested in being friends.”

For a few second, I really thought Rebecca was getting it together. In a way, she sort of was. After Aidan’s new sort-of friend Bernie was hit by a car and lay dying in the hospital, Aidan went to whatever that vampire-headquarters place is and had his fill of some of the random hot girls that were hanging around waiting to be bitten. Aidan’s emotional distress caused him to go overboard and he probably would’ve killed the girl he was feeding from if not for Rebecca stopping him. The tables temporarily turned as it was Rebecca who got him to come to his senses. Then she went and did something stupid.

Rebecca turned Bernie and thought that she, Aidan and the kid could be their own little vampire family. Apparently, kid vampires are a bit unstable and when the two kids that were picking on Bernie just before he was hit by the car turned up dead (bitten in the neck), Aidan naturally assumed it was newly-vamped Bernie who did it. It wasn’t until after Aidan quietly staked Bernie, believing there was no safe way to keep him around, that we learned that Bishop had Marcus attack the kids to trick Aidan.

Bishop’s doing a fine job of boxing Aidan in. He seems to know exactly when to let him go and when to make him feel helpless and hopeless. Tonight’s episode was a prime example of that.

On a side note, Josh is beginning to see the extent of Aidan’s involvement in all of the bad things that have happened, including the other nurse (Kara?) that died, Rebecca being turned and the fact that Aidan’s been keeping major things from him. I’d say this is pretty important. We know that Aidan’s sort of stumbling into a lot of these problems, but keeping secrets from Josh and Sally doesn’t help.

“Is it totally crazy-town to pursue a relationship with someone when you’re both dead?”

I sort of love that Sally’s a hopeless romantic. Well, no. I love that she’s a romantic. It’s the hopeless part she could stand to do without.

Sally found a message on the wall at the hospital from a guy named Nick. She knew him from college and she had a huge crush on him back when he was a teacher’s assistant but she was too shy to do anything about it at the time. As it turns out, Nick had a thing for her too but things just never happened for the two of them. Maybe if they had gotten together, Nick wouldn’t have ended up drowning and Sally never would’ve ended up with Danny. Who knows?

The interesting thing about Sally getting swept up in a new romance with ghost-Nick wasn’t just the “sex cloud” that erupted whenever they kissed, but coming to understand one of Sally’s biggest issues. We learned tonight that not only did she let go of a lot of her dreams when she decided to be with Danny, but that she has a tendency to lose herself in a relationship. So, while Nick relives his death daily as a way to remember what it felt like to be alive, Sally may be creating her own “echo” by trying to use a relationship to avoid other issues.

Nick seems to be a life (or death) learning experience for Sally but it’s nice to see her actually sort of happy for a while and the fact that she knew Nick when she was alive gives the relationship a bit of history. We’ll have to see where it goes.

“I just want to dial it back a little bit, just so we don’t ramp up and get too intense. I hope you understand.”

Well, Josh found plenty of idioms to throw at Nora in lieu of slamming his paw down on the panic button. His fear that things were going to fast stemmed from a nightmare he had about turning into a wolf while with Nora. So, in all fairness, he wasn’t just trying to run from commitment. We know he left his family and fiancé behind because he was afraid he would hurt them, so it seems only logical that he might develop the same fears for Nora, the more he cares about her.

Josh put some distance between himself and Nora until he saw her flirting with a cute doctor. Finally, he admitted that he has a deep-dark secret, which prompted Nora to show Josh the scars all over her stomach. Apparently, she was abused by someone.

Nora’s scars are a reminder that there are other kinds of monsters out there. I’m curious to see how their relationship develops going forward and how her history of abuse will factor in as they grow closer.

And finally, the song of the night: Mad World. The song was all over this episode and fittingly so as we saw each of the character’s situations and perspectives turned upside down over the course of the episode. What worked so well about tonight’s episode was that, while it didn’t really resolve any of their issues, it felt like Josh, Aidan and Sally each took a step forward. Aidan cleaned up a mess he was indirectly responsible for, Josh has begun to face his fears, and Sally is starting to see that she held herself back as much as she allowed Danny to hold her back. Where they go from here, we’ll have to see…

From what we were shown in the preview promo following Monday night’s episode of Syfy’s Being Human, next week’s episode is going to have a big focus on Josh. This episode clip should give you some indication of what he’s in for.

Minor spoilers ahead!

Josh has been estranged from his family since he became a werewolf. It appears that he’ll be reuniting with them to address his “condition” in “I See Your True Colors… And That’s Why I Hate You.”

And, if you’d like an amusing refresher on what happened during last Monday’s episode, here’s this week’s episode recap video:

Being Human airs Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

I’m coming to realize that my favorite bits in almost any given episode of Being Human aren’t the extra vampy, ghosty or wolfy scenes, but rather, the normal moments shared between the characters. Take Josh and Aidan’s chat in the cafeteria about what constitutes a date. It was almost filler but, like the dinner from the previous episode, it reminds us that these people are actually friends.

“Being a ghost is boring. But a poltergeist… Mmmm… delicious!

Some say revenge is a dish best served cold and Sally certainly falls into that chilly category. Sally’s not handling the Danny situation very well. Naturally, she’s distraught and angry over having been murdered, which results in the house rumbling when she’s feeling particularly emotional.

A night out at a club results in Sally meeting Lindsay, a ghost who died of an aneurism in 1991 and has been stalking Bill, “the douche who went on living without” her. Lindsay proves to be the prime example of not letting go. While Sally has some genuine issues to sort out, this girl has spent twenty years haunting her ex simply because she died and he didn’t. Interestingly enough, Lindsay demonstrated an ability to mess with her ex’s head with some kind of Jedi-mind-trick, so we can add that to the list of things Sally might be able to learn.

Sally has already begun to mess with Danny. She brought the engagement ring to Danny’s apartment and dropped it on the counter, causing Danny to lash out at Bridget. Sally later saw the bruises on Bridget’s arm. Perhaps she’s realized that haunting an already unstable person may bring danger to her friend.

As I see it, ghost-Lindsay is to Sally what Ray is to Josh; an example of the worst (or bad, anyway) case scenario if she drifts too far from her humanity. If the whole point of the show is for these characters to hang on to what makes them human, influences like Ray and Lindsay are a step backward.

“I spend half my time trying to forget about you too. I give up”

Aidan and Rebecca’s drama is back on as Bishop had a naughty-vamp video starring Rebecca sent to Aidan in an effort to lure him back. As Rebecca later stated, Bishop is trying to use her to get Aidan back. It didn’t work but Bishop’s efforts weren’t entirely without reward. It’s clear Aidan does have feelings for Rebecca. When Sally asked him if he was in love with her, he said he felt responsible for her, but I think there’s more to it than that.

I’m having trouble getting on board with Rebecca’s story. She doesn’t like to be manipulated by Bishop but she does seem to like that it puts her back into Aidan’s life. And she seems to want to be with Aidan but she doesn’t want to give up feeding. It’s all very dramatic… sometimes too dramatic, and it’s hard to know when Rebecca’s act is the real deal and when she’s just putting on a show on behalf of Bishop. Maybe not being able to tell the difference is the point but it’s making it difficult for me to fully understand where Aidan’s coming from when he feels torn about giving in or walking away.

“Do you think if you mention food to someone and they like to eat, technically it’s a date?”

Josh scored himself a date with Nora. There was dinner, wine and a bit of “heavy petting” (points to Sally for that phrase usage) in the kitchen.

Josh and Nora have real chemistry and now that he’s not trying so hard, their conversations are amusing to watch. She seems to bring out the best in him. Here’s the thing I don’t get. With Emily’s visit tonight, we’re reminded that Josh had friends, a family and a fiancé that he walked away from because he’s a werewolf. So why, exactly, is he trying to start something up with someone new if he’s barely willing to spend any time with the people he loved? I understand that he’s trying to find a way to live a “normal” life but shouldn’t that involve attempts to reconnect with the people he abandoned?

Speaking of Emily, she ended up getting pulled into the drama. In an effort to give Josh and Nora some alone time in the house, Aidan took Emily to a club. While he was off having dramatic conversations with Rebecca, Emily went outside for a smoke and accepted a light from Marcus. The next time we saw her, she looked badly beaten. We’re left to assume it was Marcus who did it.

Marcus’ attack on Emily may have been a message to Aidan, but I’m thinking Josh will want a say (and maybe some involvement) in retaliation for what was done to his sister. It’s entirely possible that Marcus intentionally stalked Emily. We did see him watching Josh out on the porch earlier in the episode. Maybe he’s trying to lure Josh into a fight with the vampires. Knowing what we already do about Bishop, it would make sense that he’d try to use Aidan’s relationship with a werewolf as another way to bring him back.

The episode ended with Josh and Nora taking Emily to the hospital and Aidan following after when he returned home and found the blood. It’ll be interesting to see how this is addressed next week.

Sam Witwer of Syfy’s Being Human spoke to the press last week about his role in the series. He had so much to say on the subject that we’ve broken it up into two parts. Here’s the second part of the interview, for those of you who want to know a bit more about the vampire Aidan and Witwer’s thoughts on the show.

Part 1 of the interview can be found here.

The series so far has remained very loyal to the original BBC show, it’s just been given kind of an American spin. Are there any stories coming up that you think, or that you know of, are directly inspired by the BBC show? Are being like directly inspired by episodes of the BBC one?

Oh, that’s hard for me to say because I’ve only seen the first episode of the BBC series. However, I do know that there are - the - our general blueprint is their first season. Their season was six episodes for the first season. Ours is 13. So, we inevitably go in different places and have different spins on stuff, but we do use the scaffolding of their season and some of their plot lines show up in ours.

However, sometimes our take a very different turn. There were certain, for example, storylines where I’d ask the producers, “Hey, did they do this on the British series and how did they handle this?” And I found they would tell me and it turns out that ours went in a very, very different direction or the conclusion was very different. And you’ll see a lot of that in the mid-season. You’ll see some stuff that you think is familiar, and then you’re going to see that we take it in a different place.

But, we’re very lucky to have such a wonderful series to draw from for our ideas. And the great thing is that the British series isn’t going anywhere, so no matter what we do it’s a big win-win for them. As a matter of fact, I had this discussion with Rob Pursey, one of the creators of the British series, he came and visited our set. And, he says, “This is kind of great for you guys, because hey if we go out there and we fail your series is going to get a little boost, in terms of people knowing about it, and you’ll go on your way and we’ll get canceled and that’s great.” “But, if we succeed you guys are going to get a lot bigger audience than you ever had - would have had alone, so is that sort of your perception?” And he kind of smiled and laughed, “Well, yes, that is sort of what’s kind of great about this situation is that this helps us no matter what.”

And the great thing is they deserve it. They deserve us passing viewers over to them and having more people know about this wonderfully original show that they created. I thought their - again, even though I’ve only seen one episode I was really taken in with it and I’m looking at the Blu-ray of their first season right now, which I intend to burn through.

So you’re about to film the show is there anything that you personally do as an actor, physically, emotionally, intellectually to prepare when you’re about to go on camera?

Oh, yes. There’s all kinds of little tricks, I suppose, you learn as an actor. I mean, it really - I don’t know that I use any kind of specific techniques that has been - that have been specifically taught. I think a lot of actors kind of learn their own way through things and come up with an acting technique that is theirs and theirs alone. I mean, I couldn’t even really describe it. But, definitely for some of the more difficult scenes, you have to bring yourself to an emotionally and, often times, physically very difficult unpleasant place, so those aren’t the most fun scenes to shoot.

However, Being Human has such a wonderful comedic element that it kind of keeps you going. And in fact, it’s one of the things that I love so much about this series is I was known - when I was going to Juilliard, way back when, my classmates - I was like the comedian of the class, and that’s like all I did. It’s all it was interested in doing was making people laugh, and then suddenly everyone was just like, “Oh, you’re just going to do a bunch of comedy. It’s going to be great.” And then years later, all I ever did is drama and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past ten years is drama, drama, drama.

So it’s so wonderful to be on a series now where there are opportunities for humor and there’s opportunities to lighten up and smile and do all kinds of fun stuff. And the greatest thing is that Sam Huntington is the guy who really handles most of that, so really any humor I bring to it is just bonus humor, because that guy is a master, and so is Meaghan Rath for that matter. But, it’s just great to be on a series that has some levity to it, especially with as dark as we get. I mean, really as the series goes on the sad stuff gets sadder, the funny stuff gets funnier, and the dark stuff gets darker. It’s just more and more - it’s just the dynamic range of the series astounds me.

I like the way that Aidan seems to, even though he’s got his own issues, he’s kind of mentoring his younger roommates, if you will with getting assimilated with their new lives. I was wondering if you could talk to us a bit about his relationship with both Josh and Sally?

Sam Witwer: Yes, we’ll you’re dead on. He’s kind of the anchor in a weird way, which is funny because he’s also in many ways the most out of control. He tries to keep that away from them. With Josh, yes, he is kind of an older brother. He’s constantly trying to calm that guy down and it’s not like that their personalities are inherently compatible. In fact, as much as I love Sam Huntington, I think I played Aidan most of the time just that he’s starting to learn to find humor and pleasure in the way Josh is. Whereas, I think for probably the years beforehand it was severely annoying to him and irritating and really hard to deal with. And actually, we do have, I believe coming up, provided it doesn’t get cut from the episode, some flashbacks where we see them early on in their relationship, and it’s not necessarily exactly the same thing.

But yes, it is definitely an older brother, younger brother thing and Aidan is trying to impart pieces of wisdom and knowledge. But, we have to remember that everything that Aidan knows about werewolves is colored from the fact that he’s probably killed a few in his time, and he hasn’t necessarily had a warm relationship with them.

Sally is interesting because I kind of - the way I conceive it is not just younger sister, but kind of a daughter in a weird way, because after all Aidan is an old, old man. I mean, he comes off as a young man by design. We - that me and Mark Pellegrino discussed a lot that these characters should blend into whatever time period that they’re in. And if he appears to be 25 in 2011, then he’s a twenty-first century 20-something, but in the 50’s, he should come off as a 50’s 20-something.

In any case, there is somewhere between an older brother and a father thing with Sally. And for that reason, I found it interesting that Aidan reveals a little bit more to her than he does to Josh. He’ll actually give her pieces. He’ll never give her a full picture, but he’ll give her pieces of what’s actually happening with him, and actually every now and then discuss certain things and share certain things that he - we just don’t see him share with Josh. And I find that really very, very interesting. He’d like to help both of them, but at the same time he realizes he himself needs maybe more help than either one of them.

How difficult is it when you’re working with Meaghan to remember that, because she’s a ghost, not to touch her?

Very difficult. It’s very tough. I think for the most part we stayed with that, but sometimes you completely forget and they had very strict - they had all kinds of things. They had people - they had like the DP, for example, watching over me to make sure that I don’t stand in direct sunlight because that would be uncomfortable for me. They had people watching the whole Sally, touching thing. They were very, very serious about this. And then you got us goofballs on the set sitting next to each other maybe sitting just too close and, you know, brushing up against each other and ruining brilliant takes; that type of thing.

One of the best parts of the show Being Human is the dynamic between Aidan and Bishop. We’re seeing the plot lines keeping pretty parallel in spirit to the original series, will this relationship break course and go somewhere different?

I don’t know, because I haven’t seen the original series. So, I have no idea. What I do know is that that relationship is one of my favorite things in our series. And we get to see them in different time periods and learn that they’re perspective and their opinions have been very, very different at times in history. Even though there’s so much animosity between these two and things get really ugly, I think you get a sense that these two guys love each other and have been through a lot together. There’s 200 years of a relationship there and a very intense friendship, and Mark and I talked about that a lot. Mark talked about a lot of interesting things. He kind of looked at Aidan as a wayward son. I looked at Mark as my ex-drug buddy who I can’t hang out with anymore.

There was a lot of stuff. He said something very interesting also that Aidan - because Aidan is really disrespectful to Bishop and what we will learn as the series goes on is that that’s even more serious than we’re thinking. You - there’s a code of honor with these vampires and Bishop being Aidan’s maker, Aidan is really pushing it, really, really pushing it. And we may not realize that at first, but he’s really just asking for it and Bishop kind of gives him a wide berth; kind of just lets him do it.

And there are other vampires that question Bishop’s wisdom on that. And one of the things that Mark Pellegrino said to me, which I thought was fascinating, he said, “I feel that even though Aidan is weakened, and he’s not drinking live blood so he’s not as fast, not as strong, not on his game, he’s completely off balance, and one would think he’s less of a threat.”

But, I think Bishop looks at him as even more of a threat, and then so why Bishop gives him a wide berth, but at the same time keeps tabs on him constantly because if Aidan ever decided, this is - as Pellegrino says, “If Aidan ever decided to go against Bishop that would be a major liability to him.” That Bishop really feels like what he’s trying to accomplish would work so much better if Bishop - if Aidan was on his side. However, if Aidan does turn on him and actually tries to undo what’s happening that is a major, major threat that Aidan, even at his weakest, is ridiculously dangerous.

And that’s one of the things that I also enjoy about the Aidan character, which we have not quite seen yet, but we will in the season, Aidan was a lunatic. Aidan was out of his mind. He - Aidan was sociopathic, psychopathic, he was beyond what we - you’d consider sane. And we get to see moments of that breakthrough where our nice Aidan does something that you just don’t see coming, and it’s really, really kind of hard to watch.And that’s one of the things that we really like to play with on the series.

The werewolf and the vampire feud that wasn’t really featured prominently in the original series, but is here. How will this colorization of the two sides help the show and how will it affect Aidan’s relationship with Josh?

Well, I don’t know how to answer that without spoiling a whole bunch of really cool stuff. Really, it’s - it underlines how desperate Aidan is, in terms of seeking someone that he can ally with. I mean for one thing, we do play that Vampires have no interest in feeding on werewolves. That’s just something that isn’t done and you can’t do it and it’s not good for you. So Josh, he is really one of Aidan’s only available friends. He’s not a vampire. He meets a werewolf and he’s like, “Well, I’m in no danger of killing this guy, so this has got to be - okay, this is my friend, I guess. It’s not that I like this guy, it’s that this guy is in no danger of being killed by me; therefore, he can be a friend.”

Same thing with Sally; she’s in no danger. Therefore, he can be around her and be at ease. But everyone else, every other human being on the planet, Aidan is in danger of victimizing and he - and so he can’t ever be truly at ease. But in terms of that rivalry, what will we see? Well, I guess we’re going to see later on in the season drive a major wedge between Aidan and Josh. And you’re going to think it’s right away and it’s not, it gets worse. Again, the assumption that I’ve had about Aidan is that he’s killed quite a few werewolves in his time.

On an unrelated question, how does it feel to be a part of not only the Smallville legacy, but also Star Wars with your recent voice work as the Son?

Oh, God, it was - now that it’s complete and people are enjoying it and people are sounding off as really enjoying the character, now it feels great. Up until then, I mean, be it The Force Unleashed games or The Clone Wars, you just get really nervous until its release. The Force Unleashed, when we were working on that character and we were establishing him, I mean I couldn’t sleep. I take this stuff very seriously and I know how vocal Star Wars fans are because I’m one of them, so I didn’t want to let the fans down and by creating a character that was just lame. I mean, for God’s sakes, if it’s Darth Vader’s secret apprentice it’s going to be a great character. It has to be. You can’t really afford to have this guy be just kind of lame in some way. When it comes to the Son, the pressure was on all over again because, I get called up, out of the blue by my agent and they go, “Hey, they want to you do The Clone Wars.” I’m like, “Oh, fun, great. I love The Clone Wars. Let’s do this.” And they said, “You know, they say it’s a great character,” and I’m like, “Yes, I already said yes. Let’s do it.” “Fine.” And I’m just sitting and I’m thinking they’re going to have me do a few lines and it’s kind of like a Force Unleashed reference, and that that’s, right? And then, I get called by Lucas Film, “Oh, you’re going to do The Clone Wars for us. This is great. And it’s a really cool character.” “Well, what is the character?” “Oh, we can’t tell you, but it’s really cool.” And I’m thinking, “Well, I already said yes, so you don’t have to sell it.”

And then, I get another call a little bit later explaining a few other things like logistics that I need to know about and how they record it and, “Oh, it’s a really cool character. We’re really excited. It’s three episodes and it’s really cool.” And I’m like, “Okay, they’re saying it’s really cool. This is the third time I’ve heard this, maybe they actually mean this. They’re not trying to get me excited, they actually are excited about this. Okay, cool.” And three episodes, I thought it was just going to be like one and a few lines, but at the same time no one’s telling me what I’m playing. So, the day before, they give you the script the day before, it’s watermarked, it has your name all over it, so if you leak it they know who to go after.

Of course there’s like all this - all these NDA’s you have to sign every time you do a job for Lucas Film, which I was no stranger to since The Force Unleashed, which by the way, Force Unleashed I had to keep that secret for like a year before anyone even announced that I was involved in it, so that wasn’t fun. But, so I get this script the day before and I look at it and it - I read it and I realize just to my horror that I’m going to be playing the dark side of the Force. It’s not just some character or some cool bounty hunter, no, no, I’m playing the dark side of the Force.

The personification - the characters go off to this planet where the entire planet you don’t really know where it is in time, and it’s sort of like the vision quest that Luke goes on in Dagobah and he sees Darth Vader and he sees himself in the helmet. It’s like that scene only three episodes long where all kinds of weird stuff is happening. And there’s a character there who is the dark side of the Force. And so I’m like, “How that - what - I - no. How am I supposed to play the dark - if I get this wrong, the dark side of the Force was introduced to audiences in 1977, it’s kind of an important part of the Star Wars Universe, so if I get this wrong, people are going to be very upset with me.” I’m like, “This is not going to go well.” And so, I go in and we’re recording and I’m trying to find the voice for the character and I say to Dave Filoni as I’m feeling very insecure, I said, “Hey, are you concerned that I’m - that I might sound a little bit too much like The Force Unleashed character, the Starkiller character that I played? That this guy might sound a little bit too much like him?”

And Dave Filoni goes, “Well, you know, even if he does it’s fine, because you’re playing the dark side of the Force and Starkiller had a connection to the dark side of the Force. So, that works. It’s kind of part of the reason you’re here.” And as soon as he said that I was like, “Wait a second, so he’s saying since I’m the dark side I can sound like Starkiller, well then shouldn’t he sound like everyone? He should sound like Starkiller, he should sound like Darth Maul, he should sound like Darth Vader at times, and he should sound like the Emperor.”

The next time we came in to record, the first episode he was in it just a little bit, and then the next episode and the next episode after that, the next two he’s all over the episodes. And then I just kind of went nuts. If there was a line where he said, “Join me and together we can do something,” it was “Join me and together,” you know? And then, just dip into the Vader voice or for example if it was a moment where the line is, “So, I see that you’ve brought a friend,” I’m sorry, “You are trapped here, both you and your friend,” or something like that it would be, “You are trapped here, both you and your friends,” you know, just a little bit of the Emperor.

I’d just dip into these different Star Wars characters throughout the entirety of these episodes, and the wonderful thing is people seem to be picking up on it. People seem to recognize that that’s what’s going on. There’s a kind of understanding that this character is all of those villains, and so you just hear little touches of all these different characters in that one guy, which is fun.

I was wondering if vampires were a big deal at Glenbrook South when you were growing up?

Back then I don’t know that they were. God, were they - I know that they did, what was it? They did Dracula as a play, but that was like a year before I got there, and that was a big deal. I don’t remember even - I don’t even think I knew the students that were in there at that time. But I think vampires have always been a fascination with the public since the original Dracula, or since Nosferatu or any of those and - but in terms of Glenbrook South, I don’t know that they were necessarily on my mind that much.

Did you do theater in high school?

I did. I did. I never really took the acting thing seriously in high school, but I did it a lot for fun. I took a lot of drama classes and I did plays and stuff, and then all my other time was just spent playing with my band. So, somehow - I wasn’t necessarily crazy about the class portion of high school, but everything else, all the activities, all the plays, and the music performances I became very - like very involved in, and it ate up a lot of my time.

Speaking of the band, did you - will Love Plumber ever get back together?

Well, what’s funny is in my album Colorful of the Stereo, the Crashtones album that you can find on iTunes or CD Baby, my buddy, Chuck Hirstius plays a little bit of guest guitar on a few tracks and the drummer for Tim Hibben is also the drummer for the Crashtones. So, the good news is Love Plumber lives on through the Crashtones. All you need to do is go to iTunes and little pieces of Love Plumber are in there. They still exist to this day...

You talked a little bit about Bishop and Aidan, and I was wondering could you talk about the - doing the flashback scenes with the different costumes and the different time periods, and everything, and how you approach that differently from the present, I guess?

Yes, it was just important to both me and Mark that they felt like different versions of characters you were familiar with. And the good news is that these flashbacks don’t take place until you’ve really spent some time with the characters a little bit. But, man, I would be spoiling some really great surprises if I told you exactly what happens in those flashbacks and how important they are, and also where these characters were in their development. But I will say this, that Aidan was not a very cool guy always. He was definitely a little bit out of control and was feared by many. We get to see pieces of that. We don’t get to see a lot of it, but we get to see some pieces of Aidan at his worst, which I think is just wonderful. That was really fun to play. But, after all this guy only for the past two years has he had any success in staying clean and living in a way that’s compatible with his conscience.

Was it hard for you and Mark to sort of check yourselves in those scenes, as opposed to the present time scenes in the way you interacted with each other, or was it not really that big of a deal?

Not really. The key with me and Mark is that me and him are buddies. So, it was not the first few times we shot together, it was not difficult to fall into whatever that relationship was, because the relationship does change over the years. But, no matter what the relationship was, the fact that me and Mark are close made it very easy to fall into whatever that new dynamic was that we were playing.

Whatever the dynamic is different, it was foreign to us, but at the heart of every dynamic between Bishop and Aidan is an incredibly strong friendship and love and respect for each other. And I suppose that respect erodes with Aidan and possibly with Bishop as they get older, but the love doesn’t go anywhere, and it’s still there. And so, for that reason I think me and Mark understood how to play those scenes because we just like hanging out with each other, so that’s always kind of there.

Do you ever get back to Chicago?

As often as I can. As often as I can. I was actually there for two weeks during Christmas and hung out with all my old friends, and stuff. I mean, everyone gets back in town for Christmas and we end up just doing stupid stuff together and hanging out and watching movies, and it’s like high school all over again. And I’m fortunate enough to have some friends from a very, very early age, like a buddy mine, (Matt Aliff), whom I’ve known since we were three years old, so it’s always really important to link up with him when I get back in town. And he lives elsewhere too, but we all return home for Christmas.

I wonder if you might just sort of expand a little bit on that kind of addiction theme that you have. It seems like almost like Rebecca’s kind of an enabler with him with the blood stuff, and does he maybe see Josh and Sally as maybe more of a support group to keep him straight?

Sally and Josh are definitely a support group. He hopes to be a support - to form a support group with Rebecca and hopes that he can sort of drag her out of it, but the problem is he is not safe himself. Then the thing that we’ve discussed, me and Adam Kane, about the Rebecca character is that Adam put it really, really well. He said, “Rebecca is bad for Aidan because she’s so potentially good for him, because he cannot control himself with her.”

I mean, we discussed at length - it’s a quick scene in the beginning. The first episode, the first scene we see Aidan is he’s finishing up a date Rebecca and it’s very quick, but me and Adam Kane and me and Adam and Sarah Allen all had very, very detailed discussions over how did that date go and what exactly is the significance to this when it comes to these two characters? And we figured, okay, well they’ve worked together, they know each other, they’re friend, but now they’re actually going on a date. And Aidan, as we learn throughout the season, is absolutely capable of being superficially charming and as a tool to maneuver someone into a position where he can victimize them. That’s something he is capable of doing and it’s something that he even does when he’s not thinking about it.

He’s so used to - for the past 200 years this has been the order of the day, so he’s - he sometimes even maneuvers people into vulnerable positions without even thinking about it, and then is horrified when he sees, “Oh my God, I nearly killed that guy. Oh, that’s bad.” But with Rebecca, the interesting thing that we keyed in on is that in that first scene Aidan is sharing this whole thing about Prometheus and not being allowed to die and that living thing taking its last breath, and that being gorgeous.

It’s a very, very person thing for Aidan and the Aidan that we know from this season is not someone who shares personal information. He may act like he is and he may say certain things, but it’s not real. It’s always - there’s always a tactic behind it. It’s all a rouse. But in that case, he was saying something that was actually extremely important to him and meaningful to him, and he was sharing this with this girl on their first date. So, we’re like, “All right, well this tells us all we need to know,” I mean this is for Aidan potentially the real deal; this girl. And this really could have turned into something, but then it goes horribly wrong and he kills her. And he kills her - he loses control because she had such a profound effect on him. And so now it’s a month later and she reappears, and for a month she’s been with the bad guys and they’ve been filling her head full of bad stuff and she’s killed people, and all kinds of terrible stuff.

Bishop is correct when he says, “We wanted to know - we wanted to see what was so special and blah, blah, blah, I mean because he realizes, “Okay, if Aidan lost his mind for this girl, then yes, she’s a tool for bringing Aidan back. We can use her to get Aidan back.” And we see several tactics throughout the season where they use her to try to get to him which is very sad for her because she has feelings for him and sad for him because he has feelings for her. But, what he’d like more than anything is just to pull her out and have as close to a normal life with her as they possibly could have. But, as we see even in - or even early on in Episode 4, that’s easier said than done, and much easier to conceive of than to execute.

Some of the other characters that we see like Ray and then other ghosts, they seem to have like a really kind of dark side so that we don’t really see so much of like in Josh and Sally so is there kind of that idea that they’re also trying to resist their darker impulses?

That definitely comes up, absolutely. I would not want to spoil how that comes up, but I’ll say this for Josh and I won’t say anything about Sally just yet. We’re going to leave that, but that goes in interesting places. And Josh, this is a guy who’s pretty angry about what’s happened to him because this is not something that he asked for and he had a normal life and it was going pretty well, and it was all taken away from him.

And for example, we see a little bit of that in Episode 3 when he’s talking to a kid that’s kind of like who he was before he was turned into this. He was saying, “Yes, I’m going to be your resident at the hospital. Isn’t that great?” And Josh is like, “Yes. That was supposed to me,” and then immediately afterward he strangles a tiger. This is a guy who is definitely dealing with some stuff and we see him deal with it even more so. Josh has got some anger issues to work out.

I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about Aidan’s tattoos, Celine, and if we’re going to meet her, if we would be able to meet her?

The tattoos of Celine. That’s extremely significant and ties in in many ways to elements that we’re already aware of and characters that we’re already aware of, but we do not know that just yet. What can I say without spoiling it? Extremely significant. For a vampire to tattoo a person’s name on his chest, you’ve got to take that person pretty seriously.

There’s something in this Monday’s episode (“The End of the World as we Knew It”) that I thought was interesting. The way that Aidan reacts when Sally reveals to him what she’s learned about herself, his immediate reaction is to take action. His immediate reaction is to do something. Do you think that that’s a trait that comes from who he is as a vampire? Is that maybe who he is as a person; as a man?

Okay, to not spoil it too much for everyone else, I’ll say this. It’s both. It’s both because this is a man conscience, but it’s filtered through some pretty twisted stuff. I mean, we actually worked out one time, and I don’t have the number handy, but we actually sat down and worked out how many people Aidan has killed face-to-face. Not press the button and have him go away or shot from a distance, I mean face-to-face killed. And we were shocked at the number of how there’s some moments where it became necessary for us to know how deep in this guy got. So, this is a guy who does not - he would like to respect human life and he would like to have the same aversion in horror to killing as everyone else, but he just doesn’t. He’s done it way too much. So, he doesn’t not conceive of it the same way that you and I do and it doesn’t take a lot for him to come to the conclusion that, “Oh, this person needs to die? Fine,” you know, that’s everything. And also, let’s not forget he serves to benefit. If ever there was a righteous way to take someone out, he then gets to drink live blood, which also he realizes is a bad idea. So, it’s a really messed up thing right there. It does come from a good place, but it’s filtered through so much, you know, twisted pathos that it’s not good.

It’s a little bit like Dexter, you could say

You know what, there are a lot of similarities, actually, between those two characters. In fact, I - just intended that Aidan would be - for example, I think we see in Episode 3 when he’s talking to Garrity, that’s about as open and friendly as we ever see Aidan and it’s done as a lie. It’s done to get information. We don’t necessarily see Aidan smile at people as much as he smile at Garrity, “Oh, yes, how’s it going? Oh, you’re come to this bar too? Great.” But that’s all done as a tactic. It’s Aidan, like Dexter, was sociopath for many, many years. So, this is not a person who has a very healthy mindset.

Earlier when you were talking about the relationship between Josh and Sally and Aidan and Aidan and Bishop, you said that Josh and Sally are in no way in danger from Aidan, so it makes it possible for them to be friends. That kind of suggests that because both Bishop and Aidan are a danger to each other in at least some ways, they’re relationship is probably the most human of the bunch, and that kind of odd and ironic. Could you speak further to that?

Well, I didn’t intend it to mean that they were in no way in danger for Aidan because actually just knowing the guy is pretty dangerous. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong in there. What I meant to say is that they are not in direct danger. He is not going to grab Sally and, you know, drain her lifeless. He can’t. He’s not going to do the same thing to Josh. It’s just possible. So, in the direct way they’re safe, but there’s a lot of bad things that can happen through knowing a vampire. I’m sorry, restate the question. What was it that you wanted me to discuss?

Okay, because Aidan and Bishop are both in positions of direct danger to each other. In some ways, in an odd and ironic sort of way their relationship is probably the most human of the bunch and I was just wondering about that.

Well, that’s true... He can be more honest in many ways with Bishop, and also with Rebecca in a lot of ways. I mean, he can kind of drop a lot of what he hides. I mean, he - with Bishop - the things he hide from Bishop are very different that what he’d hide from Josh and Sally because he’s trying to just not give Bishop an advantage. It’s more of a chess game. In a strange way, the person that probably gets most of who Aidan is is Rebecca, you know? But again, I don’t know that anyone ever really gets the full picture from Aidan, in terms of getting all of who he is. He’s just so used to hiding and deceiving. But in terms of the Aidan-Bishop thing, there is a brotherhood there and there is a humanity to that relationship that I find extremely satisfying to play, and when I’ve seen the scenes to watch I’m really enjoying that relationship.

Under different circumstances these two guys could have just been two pretty wonderful conscientious people because like I talk about how Josh and Aidan aren’t necessarily suited to just be normal friends if it weren’t for this mutual need. I feel like Bishop and Aidan kind of were. There are enough similarities there, in terms of their personalities and who they are, and Aidan - and Bishop is not a man without conscience it’s just a different type of conscience, that these two guys, yes, absolutely could have been the truest of friends,. And in fact, for many, many years were.

I’d like to hear you talk about is when you worked on NCIS years ago.

Well, that experience dictated Crashdown’s haircut for Battlestar Galactica. I can tell you that. My head was shaved for NCIS and I was shooting that, and as I remember - I’m trying to remember what exactly the plot line was. I was helping with some sort of gun running and I remember the set was very nice. There was - I think the chick’s name was (Sasha) something that I was working with. I can’t remember exactly what her name was, and Michael Weatherly showed up at some point. Michael Weatherly who was very kind to me, because he remembered me from Dark Angel, and we’d never actually - neither in NCIS or Dark Angel did we ever work directly with each other, but he came up to me and remembered me from that and said, “Hey, it’s great to see you, Sam,” and all this great stuff, so he was aces in my book.

And while I was shooting that, my hair was all shaved because it was military, and got a call saying, “Hey, I live and sing - have been mulling over for months who’s going to play Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica and fly off to Vancouver. Well, they want it to be you and they want you to fly out tomorrow,” so Crashdown had a shaved haircut basically. But, the interesting postscript to that is that at some point after that at Lucas Film they were trying to figure out - you know, because I was sticking with the shaved head thing. It was like, “Oh, it’s kind of neat,” after Battlestar Galactica. And Lucas Film was trying to figure out the visual concept and they were talking to George Lucas about who Darth Vader’s apprentice might be. How he would be trained. What he might look like.

This artist Amy Beth Christenson, incredible, incredible artist, Amy Beth Christenson, creates all these images of what Darth Vader’s apprentice could be, and finally they settled on one and she created this painting of the character. And guess what, she painted me. She didn’t know me, she’d never met me, never saw me, but she painted a character that looked exactly like me, who also had the shaved head, which I had at the time. So as soon as that happened, a friend of mine, David Collins looked at his immediate boss, Darragh O’Farrell and they both said at the same time, “That looks exactly like Sam Witwer. We got to get him in. This is insane.” And so, the moment I walk into the audition everyone is looking at me like, “Oh, my God. It’s the apprentice.”

Your shaved head is the look.

Yes, exactly. It’s all related. Somehow NCIS influenced a lot of stuff, or at least played a part in it. For a while I had this shaved head look and it was extended longer than I perhaps intended it to be, and also Darragh O’Farrell recognized me from Battlestar Galactica as having that look, so the end results is I have these two framed prints. One of them is the concept of the apprentice, and then the other one is me as the apprentice that looks - and it looks exactly like the concept. So, you know, there is a story about NCIS

Last week, Sam Witwer of Being Human (Syfy) was kind enough to take time out to talk to the press about his role as the vampire Aidan in the North American adaptation of the popular U.K. series. He also spoke a bit about some of his other roles, which have included Battlestar Galactica, NCIS, Smallville and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

If there’s one thing to be said about Sam Witwer (aside from his excellent collection of scifi/fantasy roles), it’s that he’s got plenty to say about his part in Syfy’s Being Human. Witwer shared some interesting insights about his character Aidan, but rest assured, he teased quite a bit but seemed to go out of his way not to spoil anything major with regards to what’s to come for the remainder of Season 1.

One of the things that really makes the British version of the series work is this great chemistry between the cast, and I was wondering how well do all of you guys get along?

Ridiculously well. In fact, on Sunday morning we’re all - the cast - pretty much the entire main cast and Mark Pellegrino and Sarah Allen, we’re all going to Hawaii together. So, I don’t know if that answers your question, but yes, it was an instant thing with me and Sammy and Meaghan, and also Mark and Sarah. I’ve been in a lot of casts and this was probably the one that really gelled the most. And in fact, it went so far that we had the producers take us aside on a few occasions in the early episodes and said, “Listen, we’d like you to tone back the chemistry,” where you usually get the opposite note.

You usually get someone saying, “Okay, remember you like each other and this is a funny moment,” but in our case I think our timing was a little bit too sharp for their taste. Because one of the things - I’ve only seen one episode of the British series and I stayed away from it after I enjoyed immensely because I didn’t want to get - unintentionally mimic anything Aidan Turner was doing because I thought he was wonderful.

So, but one of the things I remember is you start with those characters in the apartment and they’re bantering and they’re fun and they have all that timing, and you really started with them there. Well, what we wanted to do was show the journey of how they get to that kind of place, so it wouldn’t make sense. In fact it would feel quite sitcommy if we already had all that timing and all that - and all that banter, because no, Josh and Aidan aren’t entirely comfortable with each other and they don’t know Sally at all.

So, for realism sake, they said, “No, really we want you guys to work into this,” and around halfway through the season they kind of just said, “Okay, do - we’ll do whatever you want. Go for it. We’re - you’re entertaining us. Go.” But I think the note was absolutely right because you do want to get a sense of - especially for Aidan’s journey, a guy who was keeping so many secrets from everyone, including Sally and Josh, he couldn’t warm up too fast to these two.

And so, I thought it was a really good note and I’m glad they gave it to us for the sake of storytelling, to be a little bit patient.

Well, it sounds like its working though. So tell me also, in what ways are you most like and least like your character of Aidan?

Well, I’m a little bit more of a goofball than Aidan is I think. He’s a little bit more cool and collected and I supposed that comes from him being a little bit older than I am. He’s 250-something years old, so I’ll give him that. We look a lot alike. I’ll give him that as well. We virtually look exactly alike, me and Aidan. We’re about the same height. He’s a little bit faster of a runner than I am, but I also play video games better than he does. So, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of differences.

No, but really I think what I related to in this character was the fact that he was a man of conscience and I loved that. I really loved that at the core of this guy who’s been really a terrible person for the past 200 years there was a conscience at the center of all that, and I liked how the script dealt with those issues.

How do you feel Aidan stacks up against the other vampires on TV and in film right now?

Oh, you’re going to be very disappointed in me, sir. I have not seen the other vampires. I don’t know what they’re doing. I haven’t seen any of the shows. I haven’t seen any of the Twilight Series. In fact, someone said, “Hey, so you guys sparkle?” And I’m like, “What?” “Do you sparkle?” I’m like, “What do you mean, do we break into dance numbers and use jazz hands? What do you mean?” And they’re like, “No, like the vampires in Twilight.” And I’m like, “I don’t know what that is.”

So, really if - I don’t if I have an original take in it. I heard from a few people that I kind of do, but I’m just kind of crossing my fingers and doing my own kind of unpolluted take on the vampire thing. Because really the last real exposure I’ve had to it is Béla Lugosi from back in the day, and that movie I’ve seen a lot of. But, that’s it. So this is my take, and so I guess if I got it wrong it’s entirely my fault.

Well, just a second ago you mentioned Aidan Turner from the British series...

Yes, assuming - again, I thought was doing a really interesting job, which is why I really had to stay away from it, but I have a little bit. I just bought the bought the Blu-ray and I’m going to watch it. I was very excited to get my hands on it.

What I wanted to know was, is your name Aidan, is that intention or is that just coincidence?

Well, you know what’s funny is it was - it started as a coincidence. It started as a - basically they wanted a name that had a certain bit of history to it and an old school feel, so they went with Aidan and discovered immediately afterward that, yes, Aidan Turner played the role. But, they kept it that way, and this is the intentional part because they thought, “Well, isn’t that entirely appropriate? We like that name and we like that series. And we’re here to do honor to what they’re doing and to create something that compliments what they’re doing, so why not? Let’s keep it.”

You mentioned somebody asked you if you sparkled or not. How does Aidan walk around in the daylight?

Well, it’s uncomfortable, but it doesn’t necessarily harm him. The way that we play it out is, and I think I actually talked to Sally about this in, I think, Episode 3, but the vampire is just like every living thing on this planet have evolved that early on they may have been Nosferatu or one of those early on visions of the horrible pharaoh vampire, and as they’ve gone on they’ve adapted. So, yes, they can actually walk around, but they don’t necessarily like it, which is why you see our vampires wear sunglasses a lot in the daytime. It isn’t that we’re trying to look like we’re in the Matrix, we actually need them.

You have your band, Crashtones, are we going to get to hear them on Being Human at any point?

What’s funny is I haven’t pushed that at all. I don’t know, I mean my - I would love to. I’d love to hear it. My music is weird. My music, I mean, some of it is little bit excessful, but a lot of it is very strange and doesn’t conform too much to what people are doing out there. I guess I always doubted whether it would have any play, so now - I’ll talk to Adam Kane about that and I’ll start pushing it. I’ll start pressuring them. I mean, there’s some other stuff that I’m working on now, some of the music that I’m working on now could definitely fit in there. But, yes. Thank you for asking me and thanks for planting that idea in my mind.

Could you talk about how you got the role on Being Human?

Well, to talk about how I got the role is to have to face how feeble minded I can be at times. Basically, I get this script, right, and well ten scripts, I mean Episodes 1 and 2 they presented both of those. And I flipped through the first three pages and I see that I’m playing a vampire and I go, “Eh, I don’t want to. I don’t want to.” And not necessarily because I have anything against vampires, but I also don’t necessarily have a particular love for the vampire thing, and more than anything, there’s just so much of it, you know? It’s absolutely everywhere. And I thought, “Well, I don’t want to do it. Do we need another vampire show? I don’t want to do that.” That was the end of it.

I contacted my agent and said, “Yes, I’m not going to go to that audition.” And then, a friend of mine, (Laura Terry) who is like - may as well be part of my management team, she’s helped me out so much in my career. She’s a good friend of mind and she just happens to know everything about what’s happening in the business everywhere. She just is a - I don’t know, a network of information finds its way through here. She’s like a database.

She contacts me just on a whim. She goes, “I had a bad feeling today. Did you turn down the Being Human audition?” And I’m like, “Yes.” And she’s like, “Okay, you read the script, right?” And I’m like, “Oh, I mean, yes. I mean, I read three pages.” And she got very, very angry at me and she goes, “All right, do me a damned favor, would you - how about this, I have an idea. Why don’t you do your job and read the script. Be an actor for a change and do what actors are supposed to do and actually make an informed decision.”

So, she shames me, right, and then I sit down and I start reading the script. And then I became even more ashamed because I’m reading this amazing script, which I just at first glance, because I’m going through Page 3 and I’m like, “Yes, see I don’t want to do it.” And I’m around Page 10 and I’m like, “Yes, he’s still a vampire. I really don’t want to do it.” And then, around Page 15 I’m like, “But, what’s going to happen?”

I just became very invested in these characters and in Aidan in particular, and the way I felt about it is I’m like I find Aidan easily the most interesting, okay, I’m biased of course, but I mean found him to be the most interesting to me personally. And then I read the second script and it was consistently excellent, and I just fell in love with the project. And then, she hits me with Episode 1 of the British series and I watched that and I’m like, “Okay, I’m an idiot. I’m a real idiot.”

So, hat in hand called up my agent and said, “Hey, I said I wasn’t going to go to that, I’m definitely going to that. I’m absolutely - I’m in fact already there.” Just like the kids lined up for Star Wars Episode 1 outside of the audition place, so I was really just excited to audition. And then after that, I went in and read for them and, so there’s this long audition process, but it started with just one audition.

After that, because anytime someone puts like a contract in front of you that could last several years you get a little bit nervous, and so I wanted to know like what is this - how do you guys see this show? So, we all got together, me, the director, and the producers, we sat down, we had a meeting and just talked for an hour about what we saw this show. Like how we saw this show, how we saw it shot, what it was shot on, how the sound design worked, and how are the characterizations, and how you see the humorous fitting in against the drama, and all this stuff.

We had a huge discussion, because I feel like as wonderful as those scripts are they’d be very easy to mess up, and you could really get them wrong. And they really talked a good game, and then fast forward a few months and actually when I started seeing the episodes they actually had the talent to pull it off. So, I was - I’m kind of in awe of our production team. I think Adam Kane and Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke are geniuses, especially with how - I mean as you see in the later episodes, and you haven’t - we haven’t gotten there yet, but the show gets a lot darker than where we start; a lot darker. And the people were saying about Episode 4 like, “Oh, the show’s starting to get really dark.” I’d be like, “No, no, it hasn’t yet, not at all. You guys have no idea.”

And the thing that I just keep being - that I’m impressed with consistently is how they can put humor in against how dark the show gets, and to not undercut the drama with the humor. So anyway, that was a long answer to your question.

Going back to the kind of character that Aidan is, I love that he’s such a good guy, and everything with Josh and Ray, I just wanted to know where you see their friendship. If it’s coming out of - just unscathed, and how is it that he’s so easy going with werewolves because he brings Ray to Josh at the hospital. So, it says a lot about Aidan’s character that he’s just such an outstanding kind of guy.

Later in the season you’re going to see context for how vampires truly feel about werewolves. You’re going to see a lot more of that. It’s one of the things we sometimes don’t necessarily explain a lot of things. And I actually like that about the show that there are very specific rules about how all of this stuff works and we all talked about it on the set, but then we don’t necessarily go out of our way to have an exposition paragraph, you know?

In movies, you’ll see two guys and they’re like, “We’ve been best friends for ten years and you’re telling me that,” you’re just like, “Why would you say that? You don’t have to - we know. You’ve been best friends for ten years. Get on with it,” you know? And we don’t actually have a lot of those moments where we explain what everyone knows. And therefore, the audience has some room to interpret, which I think is wonderful, but as for Ray and Josh, and does our relationship get frayed by the Ray thing, it does a little bit. And in fact, it gets frayed by a lot of things throughout the season. It’s because Ray is telling Josh some truths actually about the nature of vampires, and while Aidan is an outstanding guy, he is in fact one of these people that fit into the category that Ray is describing and he still has a lot of these traits.

I mean, if you watch closely there are certain moments where you can see Aidan - like for example, in the beginning of, I guess it’s Episode 4, there’s a moment where Aidan is in the bookstore and he sees a - the woman who’s ringing people up and there’s a moment where he’s working out how he’s going to do this. How he’s going to lure her, how he’s going to this, how he’s going to that, and how he’s going to dispose of the body and all of that. He’s working it out like a chess game. And only at the last minute does he go, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that’s not - no, that’s not what I’m - I’m trying to do the opposite.” But, he’s being doing these things for 200 years and the very nature of our vampires are to be deceptive, not necessarily to each other, but to everyone else to hide what they are, to hide what they’re feeling, to hide everything.

Aidan lies a lot to his roommates, all the time in fact. Throughout our entire season he is constantly lying to just about everyone, and you only see what’s really going on with that character when he’s alone or when he’s with certain company. And what I love about that is that it really reinforces the metaphor that we make no secret that we’re actually discussing. No secret about the fact that we are discussing addition, we are discussion a man who is battling drug addiction and trying to stay clean. And bringing Josh’s friendship with Josh is a friendship of desperation. He has no one who could support him except this guy. And so they move in so that they can kind of watchdog each other, but the fact of the matter is he still doesn’t share with Josh half of what’s going on. And I think that people could definitely relate to that. Something that’s going on in their life that they feel like they can really turn - they can’t turn to anyone for it, and they keep that secret and they hate themselves for it.

Our whole mythology for vampires is all based around that metaphor, everything that we’ve done. In fact, even the casting of vampires has been about that. There’s a scene in a later episode where there’s a big gathering of vampires; giant. And we looked around, me and Mark Pellegrino, and we’re just applauding their casting choices because it wasn’t a bunch of dudes and women in like black leather pants and long trench coats. It was a woman who a mother, and then a guy who looked like a school teacher, and a kid who looked like just an average college student. It was just people. It was just normal people and the point being that any one of these people could have a problem with addiction and hide it from the people that they’re closest with. I thought that was fascinating.

In the last episode, the whole thing with Rebecca to me was really reminiscent, sort of like of a Sid and Nancy-type kind of relationship where they’re like failing and struggling and you’re trying to help her and she’s sort of dragging you down, but you keep trying to help each other. And it was like very much about two - almost like two drug addicts, but you know, they’re blood addicts, you know, trying to help each other out and she bails on you, but then - you know, I’m - I was wondering, in preparing for the role for Aidan did you look a lot at - into like that addiction and like how did you prepare for playing that kind of a thing?

Yes, to answer your question, you’re hitting the nail on the head. That’s all we talked about. Me and Sarah Allen that’s all we ever discussed was drug parallels and addiction and all that, and that was what the producers wanted. So, everyone is on the same page about this metaphor. We even blocked the scenes and shot them in such a way that they were suggestive of other things. I’ll just kind of leave it at that.

But, because there’s definitely all kinds of stuff going on there, including a very strong sexual element, the tragedy of what happens in that episode and what happens in the episodes following that episode is that she’s sincere in her intention to beat this and so is Aidan. But, they both have the same problem, and therefore maybe they’re not the best people to support each other because if one goes down the other one’s going down with them. And the other problem that Rebecca has is that she is also surrounded by - because one of the things that people maybe didn’t necessarily synapse with is that the first episode takes place over a month. Our Episode 1 is one month. When we catch up with Rebecca she was turned almost immediately after she died, right?

And then, for a month she was forced into this really messed up culture and society where if you look at it from a genre point of view she was forced to murder a lot of people and she was forced to take part in a lot of really messed up things, so she’s out of her mind by the time that we catch up with her in Episode 2. But, from a metaphor point, she was thrown into this drug thing and has been heavily involved in it for a month straight before Aidan can have any influence. So, Bishop isn’t working on her hardcore, and of course he’s working on her because he knows that this could be a lure to bring Aidan back into the fold. So...

We’re talking a lot about addiction, part of the themes about addiction is that, as a guy that’s trying to recover it seems like the character of Aidan is experiencing a lot of stuff for the first time. It’s sort of like new to him because he’s clean but there’s also going to be this theme of backsliding a lot, you know? Despite the fact that he has these friends and he has this good situation, he’s going to backslide. So, like the other characters that you’ve been known for playing, is this character like Darth Vader, like The Apprentice, like (David), but - is he just doomed to fail? Is he just going to be a failed character? It’s going to be a failed redemption story?

That is a very, very interesting question. First of all, you’re hitting the nail on the head when it comes to how new things are to him, because I’m trying to play him and you’ll see a lot more of this as the season goes on, I’m trying to play him like this is all ridiculously new to him. That this is going clean with something that has occurred to him in the past and he’s tried on a few occasions, but this is the first time that he’s really made a go of it and had any real success. And because he’s been a drug case for 200 years he doesn’t have the tools that you and I have to deal with humanity on humanities own terms. So, he’s been relying on the substance abuse to get him through. So now we have what is in very strange ways - I mean on one hand he’s a very wise old character who’s accrued a lot of wisdom, and on the other hand he’s a kid who has not developed - he’s not developed normally.

And his emotional state is extremely volatile and he tries - and which is why he tries to keep cool so much. He tries to maintain this very low key veneer to try to contain all the stuff that’s going on inside, and you’ll get to see more and more of that as the season goes on, in terms of backsliding and is he destined to fail?

In terms of ultimately is he destined to fail? That is a question that we will answer by the end of the entire series. But in terms of the season, yes, we do see some failures and we do see some moments where, yes, he starts backsliding and it’s some pretty ugly stuff. In fact, there’s one scene in particular, and I wish I could tell you about it because I’m very excited about it. (But, I remember) producers and the director being very excited with what were shooting while at the same time saying, “God, I hope we can get some of this through censors because it’s really not pleasant,” you know? The metaphor was hitting a little bit too true and I was going a little nuts, and they were saying, “Hey, you’ve got to be careful.”

One of the things that I played with with Aidan is that I felt it’d be interesting if in the first two episodes the only real joy you see this guy experience is when he goes back to the blood den. That’s the only time that we really see him experience true joy is when he’s back in the fold messing up. Every other time he’s kind of grim and quiet and this and that, but when you see him go back to the blood den and take that first drink he’s actually laughing for real and he’s actually really feeling wonderful for the first time in a long, long time. So, scary, scary stuff.

I guess maybe a lighter question is some vampire fans are known for being a little bit passionate, is a good word for it, has there been any conversations or have you received any fan reactions about, I don’t know, Team Aidan Turner verse Team Witwer, or (get attention to where you)...

I haven’t read anything like that. Is there such a thing? I wouldn’t know.< I remember there was something - there - I saw some people wearing Team Aidan Versus Team Josh shirts, which I thought was hilarious. When someone explained, by the way, I didn’t really know what that meant up until I’m like, “That’s cute. What is that?” And they explained to me the whole Twilight thing. I’m like, “Oh, that’s cool.” So...

Do you have any actual supernatural interests? I mean aside from being on the show as a vampire with a werewolf, you know, and a ghost, do you buy into any of it? Do you - are you fascinated by any of the supernatural pursuits?

I’ve always been fascinated by supernatural mythology, definitely; ghosts and such. But, I mean I don’t know that I necessarily believe in them, but I certainly love reading about it. It’s really, really fun. Then, in terms of my interests in terms of genre stuff, I have a broad variety of interest when it comes to genre television and film. I’m a hardcore Star Wars guy, love Star Trek, love all that stuff.

You’re obviously known for doing The Force Unleashed video games, and then recently the Son on The Clone Wars of Star Wars. Do you prefer Sci-Fi over fantasy or I mean, which do you think is more of your - you know, where you would see yourself ending up in in the end? Is it more Battlestar, Star Wars, Star Trek, or is more this kind of thing?

Sam Witwer: Well, what’s funny is that Star Wars isn’t really Sci-Fi. Star Wars is more of a fairy tale. Star Wars is fantasy really, with Sci-Fi trappings. For me, so long as the subject matter, in terms of what they’re really talking about, is interesting everything else is really just fun window dressing. The vampire thing for me is ridiculously interesting because of the topic of discussion; the whole addiction thing. The Star Wars thing is interesting to me because it’s an entire discussion about morality. And, I think the reasons why people lock into these things and why they stick around for years and years and years, so there’s really is some substance there.

The fun thing about doing genre, be it Sci-Fi, fantasy, whatever, is that you can have these discussions and sometimes go extraordinarily far without censors coming down on you. We’ve shot a few scenes in Being Human that if we had even hinted at a needle being present the whole scene would have been shut down with the way we were shooting it.

And for example, Battlestar, their Season 3, almost the entirety of it, is quite literally shot in terms of -it’s a discussion about the Iraq War and a lot of things surrounding it. And they shoot it pretty literally, and it looks very similar to what was happening over there and I love that stuff. I love that people can go even further with the trappings of throwing a ray gun in there and suddenly people are thrown off the scent. But, in terms of the audience, which his very intelligent, they’re not. They’re not thrown off the scent at all.

When you’re dealing with werewolves, vampires, ghosts, other supernatural elements, things can get very cheesy very quickly. Was there anything really worried about, you know, any kind of tropes that you were kind of concerned about or glad that the show has avoided with any of those kinds of creatures?

Never once that I read a script where I was concerned that we were cheesing out, thankfully. I’m very, very happy to report that. The scripts were consistently - there wasn’t a bad script in the bunch, and I was happy about that. So no, we actually steer clear of that somehow.

I’m a big fan of the British series, but also of your sort of redux of it. I think you’ve got such amazing chemistry. I really wanted to know though, even though, you know, Aidan is a dark guy and we’re - you know, he’s lying to his roommates and his friendship with Josh is strained, you know, upcoming episode is all about some pretty big reveals for Sally and Josh. I wanted - do you think that your characters are going to become more bonded because of this or more torn apart because of the revelations?

You see both. You see both, absolutely. They rely on each other more while at the same time certain revelations and I think I’m not spoiling too much by saying that there are moments where Josh and Sally pickup on the fact that Aidan is not being honest with them, and that doesn’t do much for their relationship. I think one of the themes of the first season though is how these three people resolve their relationships with each other, in terms of working together or apart, because as you see we are quite a bit apart in these early episodes. We are kind of wandering off on our own and exploring these problems and in most cases, in fact maybe in all cases, failing miserably.

I think one of themes is, are these people going to learn to start working together on this or are they just going to continue to flounder out in there - out in the wilderness by themselves?

There’s like a moment where this is kind of the moment, you know, especially for Sally who finds out kind of more about her fate and Josh about his background and stuff. This is kind of the time where they either can become friends or just be roommates, you know?

Yes. Well, and the thing is is that it’s not as if Josh and Aidan would be friends if they didn’t need something from each other. They’re really not two compatible personalities quite, so we’ll see how that goes.

I thought it was really interesting to bring Josh’s family into the series early on. Will we see anymore family members pop up (while they’re) (unintelligible) Josh or, you know (anybody)...

Yes. I hope I’m not spoiling too much by saying absolutely; totally. And in fact, you’re speaking about one of my favorite episodes from our season.

On Smallville you played a human (sitonese) and a beast, and now (you’re cast) in the same on Being Human. Have you taken anything from the role of Davis Bloome and applied it to Aidan on Being Human?

That’s a very good question. Davis didn’t necessarily have Aidan’s sense of humor, and you see definitely more of Aidan’s sense of humor as the series goes on. But, they are in a very similar position, Davis, I think, kind of slid out of control faster. But, I suppose the answer would have to be yes that I had some experience playing the - I suppose I’ve played a lot of characters that have kind of a duality.

Darth Vader’s apprentice, the Starkiller character in The Force Unleashed games had the same problem that he - his nature was to be a very good person, but his nurture was very different. Having been raised by Darth Vader he was trained to be this assassin and he had to find his way out of that. And Davis was a very conscientious person, but when he blacked out became Doomsday, and that’s no good. Aidan was a man of conscience who was turned into a terrible sociopath for 200 years.

So, I don’t know why they keep hiring me for these things, but clearly I must have troubles and problems that I’m not looking at or something, and that they see. I don’t know.

Sam Witwer of Syfy’s Being Human spoke to the press today about his character and some interesting things to come for the series as it continues through its first season.

Before we get to that, I’ve seen Monday night’s episode and while I’ll refrain from spoiling anything for you, I will say that it’s really good. Maybe even the best of the season so far. It’s pretty evenly divided between Sally, Aidan and Josh and there are some big character reveals. There’s also some really great music in it, which is becoming sort of a recurring theme for this show.

Witwer had some interesting things to say about his character Aidan. He admitted to only having seen the first episode of the British series, so as far as comparisons go between his BBC vampire counterpart Mitchell and Aidan, he wasn’t able to say. He also admitted to not being all that familiar with current vampire lore in television and books (including Twilight).

Witwer did hint about flashbacks and other scenes that show us a less restrained vampire than the Aidan we’re coming to know now. “Aidan was out of his mind. Sociopathic. Psychopathic. He was beyond what you would consider sane. We get to see moments of that break through where our nice Aidan does something that’s just, you just don’t see coming and it’s really hard to watch.”

I asked him about the “Celine” tattoo on Aidan’s chest and Witwer was naturally tight-lipped about that reveal:

So, he was vague there and we have no idea when we’ll know who Celine was/is, but she’s relevant enough that we will find out at some point.

Witwer had some interesting things to say about Aidan’s take on death and his history with it, which affects how he reacts in certain situations. This includes something you’ll see in this Monday’s episode (no major spoilers ahead):

If you’re familiar with Showtime’s Dexter, you know that the series follows a serial killer who follows a code to only kill really bad people. Dexter’s thirst for blood but desire hold on to whatever shreds of humanity he has in him does sort of fall in line with Aidan’s situation (especially given the hints about his really dark past). Witwer agreed that there are similarities between Dexter and Aidan:

(Related fact: Witwer played a small role in Dexter’s first season. He was Neil Perry, the man who tried to take the rap for the Ice Truck Killer)

We hope to have the full transcript of the call up for you sometime early next week. In the meantime, don’t miss Monday night’s episode of Being Human (9 p.m. ET on Syfy). It’s a good one! Here’s the preview for it:

Should we take the title of next week’s episode of Syfy's Being Human as a sign of bad things to come? I’m not sure if the video we have to show you from the episode answers that question, but it’s still worth watching!

Last night, Josh’s new werewolf buddy Ray tried to give him a few pointers with the ladies. Josh’s attempt to implement the “buy you a couple of drinks” smooth-guy technique crashed and burned when he tried it on the pretty blonde nurse, but from this video below, it looks as though there may be a chance for him to win her over yet.

Being Human airs Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

After the two-part series premiere, which introduced us to Josh, Sally and Aidan, tonight’s episode saw the characters split up for the most part as they each tackled their personal issues from new angles.

“It is impossible to live forever perfectly."

Being a vampire has it’s perks but it’s not without its drawbacks either. Sure, maybe Being Human’s vamps aren’t saddled with the whole allergic to sunlight thing, but like any other creature “cursed” with eternity, they do have to live with the decisions they’ve made over their many years. For a guy like Bishop, that’s probably not all that difficult as he seems just as content in using his vampire “compelling” ability to score a free cup of coffee as he is in draining a person dry and leaving them for dead, or turning them into one of his own. For someone like Aidan, who may have entertained his dark demons in his earlier vamp years, regret’s a real bitch. (See: Angel)

This week, Aidan faced the son of a man whom he murdered years ago. Michael Garrity’s been carrying around a police sketch of his father’s murderer for years and when he came across Aidan, he was sure he was the guy. He verified that when he saw Aidan’s mysterious “Selene” chest tattoo. Note to self, if I ever become a vampire, don’t get a tattoo or any other easily identifiable marker. I’m sure the Selene thing will be explained but in the meantime, the tattoo nearly messed things up for Aidan.

Once again, Aidan was faced with the decision of whether or not to handle the situation himself or let Bishop clean up his mess. The offer was on the table and Bishop seemed all too happy to have another cop on his team but Aidan stood his ground and managed to brain-wash the memory of himself from Garrity’s mind without turning the man’s brain to jell-o. But Garrity ended up killing himself anyway and Bishop was kind enough to send Aidan the pictures. I’m taking that to be sort of a, “See? You need us.” message.

“Maybe you’re not trying to move on? Maybe you’re trying to stay…”

Josh and Aidan introduced Sally to a ghost from the hospital. The mullet-sporting, guy-liner wearing Tony died in ’87 and has been lurking around the hospital, occasionally scoring with other ghosts ever since. He became Sally’s personal Subway Ghost (except without the nicotine withdrawal rage) and taught Sally how to teleport from place to place. This included a visit to the cemetery and to Danny’s place.

Sally can leave the house! That’s a big jump forward for her. What she also learned from her experience with Tony is that finding closure will give her the green-light to move on. Tony was content floating around the after-life and macking on hot ghosts but when Sally expressed her sadness over losing Danny, it gave him the idea to go visit his old girlfriend and deal with his own unresolved issues. After seeing that she was happy, his door showed up and he was able to move on.

So, it would seem that Sally’s challenge is to find closure and as of tonight, she definitely didn’t have that. She’s afraid Danny’s going to forget her and considering he’s hanging out with one of her old girlfriends, I’d say that issue’s going to take some time to deal with.

The thing with Sally is tricky. We’re going to want to see her happy and content, just as we will want to see Aidan and Josh’s personal issues resolved. But with Sally, once she gets closure, she’s gone. So does this mean she’ll be pining over Danny for however long the series goes on or will her closure run deeper than that?

“Who better to watch over a neighborhood than a couple of monsters?”

Josh spent most of the episode buddying up with some of the neighbors after Aidan threw a Neighborhood Watch gathering at the house. While Josh’s wolfy-smell came in handy when tracking down a spray-painting vandal, his rage wasn’t nearly as helpful. Catching the criminal caused him to lose control momentarily and afterward, he began to doubt whether or not it’s such a good idea to try to be around normal people.

Considering Josh abandoned his family and his fiancé because of what he is, it does seem a bit pointless to through the hassle of making all new friends if he’s only going to abandon them the moment he actually begins to care about them. At least with Aidan and Sally, he’s unlikely to hurt them. But, I suppose cutting himself off completely from other people would defeat the purpose of trying to lead a normal life.

Once again, we’re reminded of how lonely the three characters are right now. Sure, they have each other but their problems aren’t alike and none of them can be much more than a shoulder to lean on. Still, that’s something.

Favorite quote of the night:

“Vampires and throw-up scared the crap out of me as a kid,” – Sally

As this is my first official recap for Being Human, I’m going to preface this by saying that I know this is a US/Canadian take on a popular British series. I’ve seen the first episode of the U.K. version. It’s excellent and I can’t wait to watch more of it. I’m thinking for spoiler purposes, I’ll hold off until after Syfy’s adaption finishes its first season run. So, let’s put comparisons aside and enjoy the U.S. version for what it is; a series about three young people coming to grips with who and what they are. There’s the addict (the vampire), the rage-aholic (the werewolf) and the shut-in (the ghost). None of them want to be what they are but those are the breaks, right? Welcome to life, Josh, Aidan and Sally.

Last week’s episode left off with a typical series premiere cliffhanger. Josh was locked in his creepy hospital basement room at the brink of transforming into his angrier half while his sister watched on, somewhat oblivious to the depth of the temper tantrum she was about to play audience to. Sally was helpless back at home, listening to Josh’s desperate answering machine message but unable to leave the house. And Aidan was sucking on the inner-elbow (elbow-pit?) of a sexy woman who doesn’t mind bleeding.

The stage was set for a monstrously exciting start to Episode 2 and what did we get? A calm step back and slight re-introduction before we were thrown back into the fire set during the series premiere. The episode begins with Sally revisiting her funeral (or the gathering at the house afterward, anyway) as she asks herself, "What am I now? Where do I go from here?” And so, the story re-begins somewhat as we get a closer look at our three lead characters and how they came to be where they are.

"We find ourselves in an eternal nowhere, between human and thing."

At the start of the episode, we were given a glimpse of Josh and Aidan’s supernatural beginnings. Aidan was at war (Revolutionary? Civil? I’m bad with weapons and uniforms) when he was nearly killed and then turned into a vampire. Josh was one of two people attacked by a werewolf. He survived. The other guy wasn’t so lucky. We saw his first transformation, which looked as though a monster was bursting through his skin. And then we’re brought back to the present to see Bishop greeting a newly turned Rebecca.

Aidan managed to get Josh’s desperate message and made it to the hospital just in time to whisk Emily out of the room and then witness his friend complete the transformation. Aidan then explained Josh’s outburst away by calling it a “condition,” which is apparently a vaguely described disorder that runs in the family, according to what Emily said about their mother having some dark days of her own.

Emily’s run-in with her brother gave us an opportunity to learn a few things about Josh, like how he ran away from home following what his family believed was a nervous breakdown. Josh not only ran out on his family, but he also ditched his fiancé Julia.

It seemed evident from Josh’s interactions with his sister that he misses her, he misses home and he wishes things could be different. In the end, things aren’t different and right now he seems to think it’s impossible to have any kind of relationship with his sister, his family or Julia. Josh was clearly sad when he pushed Emily away in the end but something tells me she'll be back.

“You’re a monster and he’s not.”

I’m going to disagree with Josh on the above referenced quote. While his conversation with Sally about the impossibility of her having any kind of future with Danny may be somewhat realistic, given that right now, the man can’t even see her, I think Josh was projecting a lot of his own issues onto the situation. Sally’s not a monster, she’s a ghost. Unlike Josh during his bad time of the month, Sally poses no physical threat (that we know of) to Danny or anyone else right now.

We learned that Sally died by falling down the stairs late at night, which may very well be the case. In fact, it seems set up that way for the time being and given how sad Danny seemed when he talked about her, I want to believe him. Then again, sometimes when a person falls down the stairs, it’s because someone pushed them. Could there be more to Sally’s death? Possibly but it’s too soon to do anything but speculate and wait to see if Sally remembers something.

“What’s the point of any of this? Of playing house? Of drinking beers? Of joining Costco… if you’re just going to kill all of our friends?”

After finding out that Aidan’s one-night-stand Rebecca turned up vampified, Josh got angry with him. It’s understandable, given what they’re all going through to “just be normal.” Josh gained a better understanding of Aidan’s constant struggle to resist his own nature when Rebecca attacked Kara and left her to die. Poor, timid Kara. I'm thinking quoting one of Dean Cain's cheesiest lines from his role as Rick (or "Reek" if you're fake-French Brenda) in 90210 isn't the best way to win over the dreamy, mysterious coworker. If she had lived, she probably would have been a better fit for Josh and his dorky “M’lady” curtsey. Of course, that consideration is moot as Kara is dead. After getting all dolled up and making another attempt to get Aidan’s attention, she was blocked by Rebecca, who rolled up in a skin-tight outfit, teased her and then later attacked her in an alley.

Aidan resisted the urge to drink from Kara and refused to turn her, despite Rebecca’s taunting. Josh later suggested that that was Aidan’s way of saving her (as opposed to turning her). I think Josh is right, and he also saved us from being to subjected to not one but two campy lady-vamps. Don’t get me wrong, I get the point of Rebecca. She’s on the verge of a rampage and Aidan’s going to end up feeling responsible for it (even though he didn’t turn her, if we’re getting technical). Still, the whole “I’m a hot vampire. I’m going to kill my family and bathe in their blood” is a bit “eh” for me. I actually think the bulk of my distaste for Rebecca’s cocky vamp act is more to do with the contrast of her to every other character in the show, including Bishop. All of them feel more real as people, whereas Rebecca’s a bit overdone and cartoony. I’m hoping that’ll settle soon enough, though. There's definitely potential with her story.

"Maybe I am sentenced to a life in hell with you, but here and now, I choose them."

Bishop drew a line at the end of the episode and Aidan made it clear on which side he stood. He’s living with a ghost and a werewolf. Those are his people now. I don’t think Bishop’s going anywhere anytime soon, plus his cop-status makes him pretty handy to have around, which is no accident as he’s already gotten Aidan out of a couple of pickles. I also don’t think Aidan’s desire to behave and be normal means he won’t be tempted to cross over whenever the sound of a beating heart fills his ears and turns his eyes all black. Still, by the end of tonight’s episode, it was evident that he wants to be with Josh and Sally.

If there’s one common denominator between these three characters, besides their outsider status, I’d say it’s pain. Aidan endures the pain of resisting human blood (aside from the bagged kind). Josh endures the pain of leaving his family and fiancé aside, not to mention the physical anguish of turning into a werewolf once a month. And Sally’s dealing with her own kind of grief as she’s cut off from her fiancé and the future she should have had with him.

The episode closed with a very simple but well illustrated picture of the trio’s dynamic. Sally stood in the doorway, unable to move out onto the porch to be with her new friends. Josh held his arms and Aidan clutched a mug. Each of them were subtly posed to reveal a glimpse of what they are. They all have their own challenges ahead but they have each other and that’s something, right?

Other Notable Quotes:

“Danny’s pretty open… He voted for Hillary!” – Sally

“You too, Amityville,” Aidan to Sally.

“Are you a werewolf? Gross! It’s in my hair!” – Rebecca

Favorite Song:

“Do You Recall” – Royal Wood

The Canadian and US adaptation of Being Human owes much to the original, but it exists as it’s own show. Forget that there’s this smartly written UK series; SyFy’s version is held up by the same basic structure, and has the wherewithal to achieve it’s own version of wry brilliance. With three episodes watched Being Human has me on the edge of my seat with anticipation for what happens next.

Let’s get the premise out of the way: a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost live in an apartment together. This is their existence. It sounds like someone took Three’s Company and spilled True Blood all over the concept. The truth is that Being Human uses sardonic wit, emotional depth, and exciting storylines to create something so much greater than what the premise promises.

The powerful characters are the most surprising thing about Being Human. Josh (Sam Huntington) is the werewolf of the group. He’s the one to provide a little witticism or comedic quip. He provides relief from some of the heavier emotional goings on in the show, but he’s not without a fair share of weighty scenes. Including a frantic and desperate phone call to his vampire friend towards the end of the pilot episode.

Speaking of the vampire, Aiden (Sam Witwer) is the dashing lead male type. Being Human doesn’t have a lead character, but if you had to choose one it would be Aiden. Not to diminish the other two, and I think some of this is done deliberately because as a vampire Aiden is naturally charming. Despite all of the benefits of being a vampire, Aiden still has to deal with the shortcomings. He’s chosen to no longer kill humans, to no longer be the monster. Except that he still is, and the opening of the series shows him succumbing to the base needs of the monster within. Unlike other reformed vamps that got a soul back (ahem, hello Angel), Aiden is doing things the hard way. By the end of the second episode he has a moment with the vampire leader Bishop (Mark Pellegrino, Jacob from Lost) that defines the man. He’s given a choice, and makes his decision clear. As Dumbledore once said, “It’s our choices that define who we are.”

Without a doubt the heart and soul of Being Human is Sally (Meaghan Rath), the ghost. She’s a young, vibrant woman with an effervescent personality that is engaging and endearing. You love Sally the moment she first appears on screen. I know I did. This is juxtaposed with a deep heartache and sadness at the loss of her life, and her fiancé. She’s stuck in the apartment where she died, and now shares with Josh and Aiden. Sally’s inability to leave would lead you to believe there’s little story to be told, but somehow the show is at it’s most gripping when she’s on screen just trying to touch something or someone. The desperation and desire in her face is overwhelming, but never over done as the show always – so far, at least – knows when to break that tension.

Being Human is not a perfect show. A lot of what’s great has to do with the double lives that Josh and Aiden lead. It’s reminiscent of the first season of Alias, but even this early on the characters we’re introduced to on the side are already being pulled into the monster madness. Character moments are given proper treatment, but it feels like some storylines are already being rushed. But for those on the fence about watching, especially anyone who has a hard time with the hokey SyFy shows, this one might be worth a shot. It feels less like a SyFy series and more like something that the CW might have passed on because the story being told here wouldn’t work as well on network television.

The characters’ monster afflictions service the story as metaphors. Josh is a little quirky and shy, but there’s a rage in him. Aiden is a drug addict, but his drug of choice is human blood. Sally is the loneliest girl in the world. These people just happen to be supernatural beings, and like any good sci-fi story the truth is that they could be any of us. Being Human puts a mirror up to our everyday life and shows us the fur and fangs that reside just beneath the surface.

Being Human premieres Monday, January 17 at 9:00pm ET on SyFy.

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This Monday, Syfy will premiere Being Human. What’s it like for three young people dealing with the challenges of being a ghost, a vampire or a werewolf? That’s what this drama series is set to explore.

Being Human, which is adapted from a British series, looks like an outsider tale of sorts. It’s hard enough for most people to figure out where their lives are headed and where they fit in, but Josh, Aiden and Sally have the added challenges of being supernatural beings. Josh is a werewolf, Aiden’s a vampire and Sally’s a ghost.

Below is a video that will give you a better idea of what the show is about.

Also, we’re hosting a giveaway for a Syfy iPod and a Being Human t-shirt. Find out how to enter here!

Being Human premieres Monday, January 17, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy.

Syfy’s Being Human is set to premiere this Monday night and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Being Human t-shirt and a Syfy branded iPod! Read on to find out more about the show and how to enter.

Being Human is based on a British series by the same name and follows two guys and a girl as they struggle with the challenges that come with having supernatural tendencies. Aidan is a vampire, Josh is a werewolf and Sally’s a ghost, which naturally makes them outsiders. The series stars Sam Witwer (The Mist, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville) as Aidan; Meaghan Rath (Prom Wars, 18 to Life) as Sally; Sam Huntington (Superman Returns, Fanboys) as Josh, and Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural, Lost) as Bishop.

Being Human premieres Monday, January 17, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Syfy. You can read our early review of the first few episodes here!

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One winner will be selected at random after the contest closes and they will be contacted by Kelly West via Facebook message. The winner will receive a Being Human t-shirt and a Syfy branded iPod. Photos of the prizes are below.

What do you get when you put a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost in a Boston brownstone? Syfy’s going to show us with their new drama series Being Human. Fairly unoriginal premise aside, the cast, writers and this promo have me intrigued.

While you may remember Sam Huntington as Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns, I usually associate him with his role as Jam in the underrated Kiss-tastic film Detroit Rock City. In Being Human, Huntington plays Josh, the werewolf. Also starring in BH is Sam Witwer, who plays Aiden, the vampire. Witwer’s no stranger to Syfy (or Scifi technically) as he played Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica. The Assistants’ Meaghan Rath is Sally the ghost and Lost fans will surely appreciate Mark Pellegrino (Jacob) in his co-starring role as Aiden’s vampire-mentor Bishop.

Is Syfy trying to cash in on the vampire/werewolf supernatural craze? Probably, but that doesn’t mean this series won’t be worth checking out when it premieres next month. Below is the information Syfy released on the series and further down is the promo.