3.8 Your Body is a Condemned Wonderland This week’s episode of Being Human managed to set that up while also confusing me greatly in the process, so let’s just take it from the beginning. Nora is ticked. Beyond ticked. Beyond livid. She’s so angry that there aren’t enough adjectives to describe her current emotional state, and you really can’t blame her. We have the benefit of knowing what really happened; she doesn’t. And her anger is only corroborated when she sees the ghosts of the girls Aidan killed for Henry and they essentially prove Nora’s opinion of him right. And while Josh keeps trying to stick up for Aidan, the girls quickly shoot him down by calling him an, “enabling, codependent assbag,” which basically confirms Nora’s opinion of his relationship with Aidan, too. (Okay, maybe not the assbag part. But seriously, no one can argue with the enabling, codependent part.) And as if the ghost girls weren’t enough, there’s Liam to reinforce the fact that Nora felt maternal about Erin and that Aidan is an awful murderer who killed her baby. So Aidan and Kat go on their date, in which they wittily banter about the Revolutionary War and whether or not it was full of thrilling heroics. (Kat mentions one of her ancestors fought in the war. I’m sure that’s not important or anything. I’m sure her ancestor wasn’t the dude Aidan killed when he was first turned. Certainly not.) And then Liam shows up because he’s somehow equipped with an Aidan-specific fun-seeking missile or something. So Aidan sends Kat away and basically hands himself over to be tortured. And then I have to wonder why it’s apparently a television rule that all torture scenes must be accompanied by light-hearted oldies music. Have you guys noticed that? I can’t remember the last time I saw someone get tortured to a good old fashioned villain monologue or a Top 40 hit. It’s always love songs from before my parents were born. Who knew torturers had such old-fashioned taste? Meanwhile, Sally is trying to figure out this whole decomposing thing by asking Max about his body preservation techniques and stealing his supplies. When he catches her, she finally admits that she used to be a ghost and now she’s the living dead, to which Max replies, “Oh, I know all about mental illness.” She finally shows him where she’s decomposing and he freaks out (understandable) and leaves. Additionally freaking out is Nick, who is also decomposing… until he eats a stray cat and finds that he’s all better. I’m one of those people who still loves zombies, even though they’re so over done right now, so I’m beyond excited about this development, especially given Sally sitting there with a mouthful of raw meat at the end of the episode. Elsewhere in the episode, Josh finally proposed to Nora and she said yes. Also, Sally referred to Aidan’s ghosts as “human maxi pads” and I laughed so hard that I had to pause the TV. Actually, I laughed pretty hard when I saw the title of this episode, too, so props to the writers for both of those laughs this week. I’ll admit that this episode dragged a little for me (the conflict between Aidan and Nora is frustrating in a way that reminds me of my feelings towards the conflict between Rick and Shane on season two of The Walking Dead) but then on the other hand, Josh is a werewolf again and Sally’s a certifiable zombie so I honestly can’t complain too much. Plus, I just genuinely don’t know how they’re going to deal with Aidan being infected (and with the virus apparently spreading pretty quickly), Sally needing the flesh of the living, and Josh being cursed again after all he did to cure himself last time. I also don’t understand how Aidan didn’t get infected when he drank the blood Erin tainted, but did get infected thanks to Liam. It’s a corner with no escape that I can see, so next Monday can’t come quickly enough. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
