Review: Being Human 2.7

Mitchell and Daisy commit the Box Tunnel Massacre.

While the finale of a series is usually where the stories reach their climax, Being Human has always taken a different root and prefers to have its storylines meet in the penultimate episode with the finale as a sort of extended dénoument. 2.7 is no different, and as the first seventh episode it's the perfect test of the format. Of course there are aspects of the story and the format that fall down here, but overall it's an above-average episode of this series.
      This week, Nina returned to the fold with Kemp on her arm, with the intent to bring George and Annie back to CenSSA's Facility. This was greeted by Annie's enthusiasm (as she's not all that set on living until the end of time) and skepticism by George, who then decided to accept Sam's request to attend Molly's parents' evening. Despite even proposing to Sam, it all goes awry when George fails to register the clocks going back and ends up transforming in the middle of the school. Even though he manages to get home without hurting anyone, the event is enough to ruin his relationship with Sam and he accepts's Nina's proposal.
      Having escaped from the burning Parlour, Mitchell met up with Daisy (Amy Manson) and together they went to find answers. First dropping off at the Coroners, they assume that the police are to blame after Mitchell's murder of the Police Constable, but the Coroner laughs and gives him another name - Lucy. Angry at his betrayal by Lucy and thus humanity, Mitchell and Daisy attack a train full of passengers - the Box Tunnel Massacre seen throughout Series Three. As George decides to go with Nina, he and Annie discover a blood-drunk Mitchell, afraid of himself. Going after Lucy, he visits the Hospital Chapel, where we meet the Chaplain (Michael Begley, from 1.6) who tells Mitchell to be strong, and accidentally reveals that Lucy works at CenSSA.

A mistake means that George transforms in public.

     Unfortunately, I felt that Annie didn't have a lot to do in this episode other than try to communicate with Kemp - a product of her unfortunatley splintered storyline this series. What confused me is that Annie spent the first half of this series trying to avoid the Door, and in this episode she suddenly wants to jump into Hell like it's a trip to Summer Camp. These scenes did however provide an excuse for Kemp to expose a more kindly side, one that was all the more creepy for the casually delivered dialogue about Satanic posession.
       Episode 2.7 closed the storylines pretty neatly, but wasn't really very big on the aspects of Being Human that I like - no emotional poignancy, or real action. A lot of things happened, but nothing felt fully explored and the storylines that we'd supposedly been following for seven weeks seemed to come to a hilt without real warning. It was a climax that didn't need, nor deserve, to be here.


Thanks.


NEXT WEEK: The worst episode of Being Human, bar Adam's Family. Of course.