Quick Take: Being Human, "Mama Said There'd Be Decades Like These"
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Review: Being Human, “Mama Said There’d Be Decades Like These”
(S0206) Mark Pellegrino stalks my television some more this week -- again as a protagonist’s hallucination -- when Aidan drinks a lot of blood and starts chatting with Papa Bishop. Aidan’s hallucination instructs him on how to be a Big Boy vampire in the absence of Bishop’s twisted guidance of the Boston coven. He wants Aidan to kill Hornball Fledgeling Henry. Aidan is down with that plan until the opportunity actually presents itself. Regardless, HalluciBishop is thrilled that Aidan is “fun” again, and even though I know, deep down inside, that this whole blood bender thing is going to end so very very badly, I can’t help but agree. Aidan on live blood is like your college roommate: funniest drunk ever until he starts puking on your shoes.
Meanwhile, Sally’s mom dies and becomes a ghost, flitting off to meet with an illicit lover before her own funeral is over. Sally is appalled, but I feel like I’ve gained a better understanding of how Sally’s brain works. The best part is that I think Sally did too.
Josh is left out of the parent trap, but very much in the dog house with Norah. When the police come sniffing around for Norah in the aftermath of her ex-boyfriend’s death by werewolf, Norah is nowhere to be seen this entire episode and refuses to take Josh’s calls. I always thought that Josh was the drama queen in their relationship, but apparently I was wrong.
When Aidan is too drunk on blood to give a crap, Josh takes it upon himself to enlist Vampire Policewoman Cecelia in his quest to make the scary detectives go away. She uses her freaky vampire mind control powers. Have we seen those before? I don’t think we’ve seen those before. Regardless, it works, for now, and since CeeCee isn’t going to collaborate with a werewolf out of the kindness of her heart, Josh hands over the magical vampire killing gun and gives her the drop on the purebred werewolf wonder twins. This is probably going to backfire. Why? Because this is Being Human. Silly monsters, didn’t you realize that that being human means watching best laid plans blow up in your face week after week after week? Someone should probably tell them that.
No, nevermind, just let them do their thing. How else are we going to get this plot to move along?
