Vampires: Why do we love them?
by Oline H. Cogdill
July 26th, 2009I love vampires.
Who doesn’t?
There is something in this myth that taps into so many themes of both literature and life.
Certainly sex and violence are at the top, but there are also the deeper issues of loneliness, of the masks that each of us put on to face the world, of trying to fit into our place in the world.
From Dark Shadows to Charlaine Harris’ wonderful Sookie Stackhouse series, if it has a vampire in it, I am there.
That’s why the new BBC America series Being Human has such an appeal. It taps into each of those themes I mentioned above.
And even a bit more.
Being Human is about three 20something roommates in London — two men and a woman — trying to find their spot in this world, build a career, find love, and find out who they really are.
But any similiarities to Friends or Three’s Company or How I Met Your Mother ends pretty quickly.
The roommates are Annie, a ghost; Mitchell, a vampire, and George, a werewolf.
Judging from the sneak peek I saw, Being Human is funny, heart-wrenching, clever and realistic. And, oh yeah, there’s some sex and violence, too.
The humor as well as the emotion comes from the ways that the three try to deal with and surpress their supernatural sides while also just leading normal lives. They also are trying to be moral in a world that is immoral.
Annie bores the pizza delivery man because she is so giddy that he can see her. George — mild mannered and tongue tied around women — just cannot get a date. Mitchell — hunky, brooding — has too many woman falling all over him.
Being Human airs at 9 p.m. Saturdays on BBC America with encores. Check your local listings.
Photo: Being Human with George (Russell Tovey), Mitchell (Aidan Turner) and Annie (Lenora Crichlow). BBC America photo
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