Review: Becoming Human, Episode 8

BBC Three aired the entire series of Becoming Human on Sunday night including the finale.

In the final episode we finally find out who Matt’s (the ghost) killer is. I honestly never saw it coming. I didn’t think it was the person it turned out to be. Christa knocks the killer out and Adam decides he wants to get revenge by drinking his blood. Matt and Christa manage to stop him.

Now that Matt has finally completed his unfinished business, his door appears. He doesn’t know whether to go or not. Christa and Adam are both hesitant about seeing their, now, friend leave them forever. During Matt’s internal dilemma, the murdered comes around and tries to attack the trio once more. But it doesn’t end too well for him.

Sorry this review is short, but I really don’t want to give away too much of the ending for those that haven’t seen it yet. But I can say it was well worth the wait and the killer is who you least suspect, and I mean the killer wouldn’t have been on your radar at all. Well maybe on yours, but he wasn’t on mine.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 7

This week webisode follows Christa acting as bloodhound to try and find Matt’s dead body. After speaking with George, Adam helps Christa set up an area where she will go to change. He does this with the trusty old chicken on a string. Gotta love the chicken on a string.

Christa uses her heightened sense of smell due to the full moon to try and find Matt’s body. Unfortunately for Adam and Matt they get stuck in the same room as her whilst she changes into a werewolf. This wouldn’t really do anything to Matt but it could mean Adam’s final death. The vampires quick thinking gets Christa into a cupboard away from him and this is where Christa remains for the duration of the night.

The morning after the full moon is when they discover Matt’s body after joking that Christa had probably eaten it when she was in wolf form as they eat anything. Good thing she never ate him, I don’t think she would be able to stop throwing up knowing she has ate the only evidence they had to proving Matt was murdered and that it still leaves Matt with unfinished business. Oh and the fact that she ate a human being. Would it be cannibalism if Christa ate Matt’s body whilst she is a werewolf? Hmm..may have to ponder that one.

My favourite part of the whole episode was watching Christa’s transformation. It was so different from George, Nina, McNair and Tom. I did feel really bad for her because she has to go through all this alone, she hasn’t had anyone to help her with the werewolf stuff. I think she should go meet George and Nina. Fingers crossed we have a merging of the series’ in the Becoming Human finale. I think meeting Nina and George would do Christa a lot of good. It may help her embrace the wolf as part of her or just not let it bother her the other twenty odd days of the month.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 6

This weeks’ webisode is slowly bringing us full circle in the ‘who killed Matt’ mystery. This week the gang have been investigating the possible escape route of Matt’s killer as they follow the map that marks all the CCTV cameras in the school.

They find themselves in the gym and having to hide from Mr Roe, the P.E. teacher, inside the gym equipment. Mr Roe finds them hiding out but is none the wiser as they are too engrossed in one another for Roe to think they were spying on him.

Christa finally admits that there is something supernatural about her. Her nose has been picking up scents that neither Adam or Matt can pick up. Matt not picking them up the scent is obvious as he is a ghost but I would have thought Adam would have smelt something seeing as he is a vampire and would have a keen sense of smell. Then again Mitchell doesn’t seem to have as such a good nose as George does in Being Human. Christa is still in denial at being a werewolf and she isn’t ready to admit it to anyone out loud. She will admit there is something weird about her and it has to do with the full moon, but nothing more. Poor Christa, I feel sorry for her. Having to go through all this without anyone else. Reminds me of George before he had Nina in Being Human.

Overall an insightful episode. We find a possible location for Matt’s body and this would indicate that the gang are onto the killer. Next week’s episode looks promising with a full moon on the way.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 5

This week’s episode opens with a dictated letter written by Matt to Christa confessing his undying love for her. Matt reads this whilst we are shown a flashback to the day that Matt died in the toilets. In the flashback we get to see where else Christa is scarred and she has definitely been attacked, whether it’s werewolf or animal, we don’t know for certain as Christa is clearly in denial about her being supernatural. To me that screams that she is a werewolf but doesn’t know it yet and possibly hasn’t gone through the change yet or has but has blanked it out. I am sure we will find out soon.


Adam declares that he and Christa must have a public break up. He seems to think that everyone was convinced by his hand snog and that he and Christa are a couple. But he hints slightly that he wants to keep it going, which shows, somewhere deep down he wants Christa or he is just an old pervy vampire. I am going to go with the latter hehe!


An argument between a teacher and another person gives the trio another possible lead as to who killed Matt. This prompts them back go back and take a closer look at the toiler where Matt died. This is where they bump into their new suspect and it makes Adam and Christa think that they are on the right track. Not only are the gang bad detectives as none of their suspects have been correct so far but it seems that they are all blind also. Footage of the killer may be lurking somewhere but they need to find it.

Overall, the episode this week was pretty good.  I hope we get the Christa mystery dealt with soon and get to see her change. Adam might just want to keep his distance during that time or else he will be were-meat. I can’t wait!

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 4

The gang introduce us to Brandy Mulligan or should that be Brandy Crompton? She comes from a feared family that are known for beating up and bullying people. But she goes one step too far and it could now be her life on the line if Adam’s vampire side has anything to do with it. Luckily he has Christa trying to keep him on the straight and narrow.

Christa tries to coerce Brandy into admitting that she murdered Matt after catching him spying on her in the changing room. But she soon finds out that Matt has been pointing Christa and Adam in the wrong direction once again and we find out why.

My favourite part of this episode was the awkward moment between Adam and Christa in front of Brandy when they try to make it look like they are a couple. Christa looks like she wants to positively puke whereas Adam, I think looked awkward due to his lack of interaction and experience with girls.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 3

In this episode, Matt is trying to get Adam and Christa back on his side so they will help him track down his killer.  Things are slowly coming back to Matt and he now remembers how he died, where he died and with a little help from Christa then manage to figure out roughly when. That just leaves one question, who killed Matt?

The little detail as to where he was and why he was there is basically down to being a hormonal teenage boy. During these revelations from Matt, Christa unknowingly reveals her scars to Adam who just has to say something about them. Christa is quick to retaliate and puts the blame on to herself by making out that she self harms. Matt soon pipes up that her arm is not the only place she has scars.

The teacher in charge of detention reveals a little secret about one of the girls in school, Brandy Mulligan. She isn’t who she says she is. What is she hiding? And that’s exactly what the trio are going to find out next time.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 2

Episode two of Becoming Human begins with Adam and Christa chasing down the school bully, Danny Kurtis, to question him about the murder of Matt. They lead him into an empty classroom to tell them what they know; that he was bullying Matt and that they think he killed him.

 

Matt then goes on a rampage around the classroom throwing things around, writing and misspelling the word ‘murderer’ on the whiteboard and launching pasta at Danny. All this ghostly behaviour freaks Danny out and relegates him into confessing that his bullying is a front and that he would never be able to kill someone and go on with life as normal.

Christa and Adam discover that Matt was just using them to get exact his revenge on Danny. This doesn’t sit well with either of them and they promptly quit investigating Matt’s murder. Adam makes it perfectly clear to Matt that they can’t use him and Christa for his own little games as they could end up seriously maiming or kill someone in the process.

Review: Becoming Human, Episode 1 - Untitled

Becoming Human is the spin off web series following the life of Adam, a teenage vampire, shortly after he left the Being Human gang in Wales. Adam is on his own journey to try and quench his bloodlust by going cold turkey and trying to get some qualifications behind him. He enrols in the local school, Rathborne High, to try and achieve this.

At his new school, Rathborne High, Adam tries to associated himself with what he thinks are good people but turn out to be the popular and meanest kids in school. After being publically humiliated by the mean kids, he meets a girl, who just so happens to be a werewolf. Well that’s what Adam thinks she is anyway.

Later on, Adam and Krista end up in detention because they were being cheeky to a teacher. Whilst in detention, they notice, Matt, the missing kid from their school. Krista doesn’t catch on at the beginning that he is a ghost, but Adam being the more experienced supernatural twigs straight away. Even when Adam states he is a vampire, Matt is a ghost, and that she, Krista is a werewolf, she vehemently denies the claim and later on she says she is not supernatural. If that’s the case, then I wonder what she is if she gives off wolf vibes? Is it possible she doesn’t know she is a werewolf?

With help from Adam and Krista, Matt is trying to retrace his last steps alive. They are trying Matt figure out how he died. Basically that is where the episode ends just as Matt has realised that it could have been the school bully, Danny Kurtis.

The episode isn’t only a short eleven minutes but a lot of ground is covered in this short time. I especially like Krista’s character as she reminds me of Keira Knightley’s character from Pirates of the Caribbean with her cocky I-don’t-give-a-stuff attitude. My favourite part of the episode was when Matt was listing the last things he could remember eating before he died which transpires into Krista and Adam listing insults that contain puns with the word ‘egg’ in them.