If last week’s babysitting episode was little more than a slight comic treatment of her lack of purpose in life, this week’s shoehorning in of a fraudulent psychic and the random appearance of her mother were steps too far, in my view. The chances of Annie’s mum just happening to turn up to a psychic show were as slight as the chances of a psychic turning up in Bristol in the first place and this was the clearest evidence yet that episode four represented the culmination of her character’s story arc. Likewise the idea of helping out the ghosts that the psychic had lost touch with due to an accident (utterly ridiculous, by the way). The side-story of the chap on stage who wanted his wife to confess to having had an affair was dull, to be frank, and I was just waiting for Mitchell to come back up on screen and give me a reason to keep watching. Unfortunately, I was kept waiting as he barely appeared in this episode. His continuing battles with his own salvation provided this week’s finest moments, typically, and built to an explosive climax. Those final five or so minutes – Kemp and Lucy praying before she, very reluctantly, gave the order to get rid of the vampire community, juxtaposed with Ivan spotting the bomb – was perfectly executed and ramped up the tension, providing a cliffhanger to come back for next week ala 24. George continued in his attempts to get his life back on track by taking the alarming step of moving in with Sam and Molly, which is all a little unrealistic, as I mentioned last week. However, it makes sense from the point of view of him wanting to so desperately live a normal life that he would take such huge strides. No wolfie action again but that’s all set to change next week from the looks of the preview, so I presume that, by setting up his relationship with Sam, the show is now going to rip his whole world apart again by reintroducing Nina and providing George and Annie with meetings with Kemp. I certainly hope so, as Being Human has been placing so much emphasis on our threesome wanting to become like anyone else of late that it’s in danger of losing its geek factor. Check out our review of episode 5 here.
