History Series / BeingHumanRemake

* BigBad: Bishop (Season 1)

* BlessedWithSuck: Sure, everlasting youth, superhuman strength, and mind control are all neat perks, but are they worth being turned into a cold-blooded murderer for? Some vampires view their condition this way, others don't. See also CursedWithAwesome.

* ActorAllusion: Kyle Schmid stars as [[BloodTies a vampire named Henry]].
** When Aidan swings an iron poker to disperse [[spoiler: Sally]], he holds it in a ReverseGrip the way [[TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]] holds a lightsaber.
* {{Adorkable}}: Josh, though he begins to drift away from the awkward "dork" thing in the last few episodes of season 2, a trend that continues into season 3.

* SelfDeprecation: This is the canon reason why Josh's transformation hurts so much more and why he has so little control over his wolf compared to Nora and other werewolves. [[spoiler: However, it's not that his wolf hates his weak human side. Quite the opposite. His loathing of his wolf side has actually made his wolf ''afraid'' of him! To the point that when he finally mets his wolf during a meditative trance, his wolf runs away from him in fear.]]

** In season 4, [[spoiler: the entire wolf pack. They lock Josh up and torture him until he turns so he can make more wolves, then show up at his house and hold Nora at gun point. What kind of reception were they expecting to get after all that? It's no surprise they're all viciously slaughtered when he transforms to protect Nora.]]

** In season 4, [[spoiler: the entire wolf pack. They lock Josh up and torture him until he turns so he can make more wolves, then show up at his house and hold Nora at gun point. What kind of reception were they expecting to get after all that?]]

** Due to Donna's magic, Josh gets attacked by his inner wolf and when he transforms the first time after being re-cursed, [[spoiler:he is trapped as a werewolf every day except on the full moon, when he turns back into a human. He and Nora have a brief period of time when they are both human before she changes. This, compounded with the fact that he has seen the financial burden he has put on them, pushes Josh to suicidal thoughts, until Sally returns and reveals she can use magic to turn him back to normal. The spell she uses, however, is incomplete due to her own quirks in coming back, and while he is now a human, he is closer to being to the purebreds in anxiety outside of the few days before the full moon, and under duress his wolf is able to come out when it is not the full moon.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Dead humans can brought back to life with blood magic, but they cannot see anybody that they knew in their previous life, or else those people are doomed to die within a few hours. After a period of time, their undead bodies begin to rot, and the process can only be reversed if they eat living things, such as mice and cats. The hunger gets worse and worse as time goes on, until they get the urge to attack and devour living humans. As supernatural beings, the undead can see ghosts the same way werewolves and vampires can. It should be noted that the undead are not technically 'zombies', as explained by Donna, since zombies are not sentient or aware that they have been raised from the dead. The existence of 'true' zombies has thus far only been hinted at.

* [[VampiresAreSexGods Vampires and Werewolves Are Sex Gods]]: Aidan can't walk down the street without attractive women throwing themselves at him, and in the two or three days before he transforms, Josh becomes way more aggressive in the sack.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: There's a reason Vampires don't turn kids. See ShootTheDog below.

* FanDisservice: The ghosts of the two girls Aidan murdered walk around in their [[JacobMarleyApparel bras and panties]] … while still drenched in their own blood.

** Sally's gross rotting body, both in-universe and out. Her flashing Josh and Aidan is played for laughs.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Sally (and all ghosts) is invisible and inaudible to normal humans unless they are open to suggestion, but vampires and werewolves can see her perfectly. She at first has no ability to manipulate the physical world except with her emotions, exhibiting some poltergeist powers. When a ghost resolves the issues tethering it to the physical world, a Door to the other side opens up, allowing them to move on. Should too much time pass before the Door is found, a ghost will start to lose its sanity. If a ghost turns down the Door, he or she starts to exhibit a closer bond with the physical world, manifesting in the ability to manipulate physical objects if they focus hard enough. Ghosts can also possess humans if they are open to suggestion or under the influence of a narcotic, however the ghost may get stuck if they stay too long. This possession can be blocked by protective spiritual charms, such as the Thai Hill people's Soul Lock. Iron will dissipate a ghost's spirit, but it will reform in the place where his or her body died. Ghosts can also be exorcised, usually by trapping them in a salt circle and then using sage and the Lord's Prayer to purify the house they inhabit. They can be destroyed by completely destroying the place they haunt, and ghosts are also able to destroy each other via "shredding", completely annihilating the spirit energy of the other ghost. However, this sends the spirit to a torturous reality known as Limbo where they are punished to relive the way that they died endlessly. [[spoiler:The only known way out of Limbo is through blood magic, restoring the spirit back to their physical body where they live, again, as Sally is brought back to life by Donna Gilchrist.]]

* OurWitchesAreDifferent: Magic exists, and it is used by witches. The most powerful form is blood magic, which as it suggests requires human blood to perform. It can be used to bring the dead back to life, and is apparently used to [[spoiler:turn ghosts corporeal through the consumption of other spirits, as Donna died during the Salem Witch Trials and Sally returns to the living world through the place she died after Donna tries to keep her away from either the living or spirit worlds]]. Sally also discovers she can access Donna's magic, after defeating her at the end of season 3, and can read the book that she used to keep herself alive, until Donna tries to trap her, again, forcing Sally to destroy the book, only for all the spells to become a part of her. Whenever Sally uses magic, [[spoiler:she finds herself thrown back in time, sometimes to the pasts of her friends, or to certain parts of the past in their house. She cannot interact with anything in the past, but she can possess people]].

** [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline Sally creates by preventing her own death, she becomes a werewolf and after she dies in this timeline, she becomes a ghost, again, but it may be because of the unique nature of everything that's happened to her.]]

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in the appropriately named "That Time Of Month". Sally reveals one of the ingredients for the spell [[spoiler:to turn Josh into a human again]] is menstrual blood, to Nora and Aidan's disgust. Then Aidan sheepishly reveals that as a vampire, he can smell when a woman is on her period.

** A really good example goes to Kat and Aidan [[spoiler: admitting that they love each other and like their mundane life together]] to [[spoiler: Suzanne flogging herself in penance as we find out through flashback that she killed her son Issac during her first feeding.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Josh makes Sally and Aidan a nice dinner to have some semblance of a normal evening without any monster-related business... then reality hits when the only things they have to talk about are monster-related things.

** A really good example goes to Cat and Aidan [[spoiler: admitting that they love each other and like their mundane life together]] to [[spoiler: Suzanne flogging herself in penance as we find out through flashback that she killed her son Issac during her first feeding.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "One is Silver and the Other is Pagan", Cat and Aidan have an awkward/cute moment of connection over the American Civil War. She quips "I suddenly feel not-dry." Sure, they had just finished fixing some plumbing together, but...

The show is currently in its fourth season.

* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness - In the lower middle. It's ''possible'' to be good... but it's like going off a hard drug while [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere it walks around you.]] Aidan talkes about it a bit in season two and the show continues to emphasize the comparision to drugs: feeding 'live' is fairly euphoric and stopping cold turkey is extremely dangerous.

''Being Human'' is a North American remake of TheBBC's ''Series/BeingHuman'', created by Toby Whithouse. It debuted in January 2011 on [[Creator/SciFiChannel Syfy]]. As with the original British show, it centres around a pair of friends: Aidan, a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, and Josh, a geeky and uptight {{Wolfman}}. They decide to get a place together, thinking that it will help them set up the routine and structure each of them needs to [[StagesOfMonsterGrief live as normally as possible]]. However, on moving to a new house, they discover that it is haunted-—by the ghost of a young woman called Sally, who is unclear on the circumstances of her death.

The news of the remake wasn't met with much [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks applause]], as most American remakes of British works seem to be somewhat lacking. However, the show has proven to be very successful, and has been renewed for a fourth season.

** Also, Sam Witwer's working at a hospital, [[{{Smallville}} again]].

* ShoutOut: Sally aptly compares Josh and Nora's situation at the beginning of Season 4 to the movie ''Film/Ladyhawke''.
** Several characters have referred to ''Literature/Twilight'' on multiple occasions in order to tease or insult Aidan.

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* ATasteOfTheLash: How [[spoiler: Suzanne punishes her self every night]] in order to atone for [[spoiler: killing her and Aiden's son Issac during her first feed.]]
* TheAtoner: Aidan. [[spoiler: Suzanne.]]

* CulturalTranslation: The remake's plot is almost completely different from the UK version to begin with, but even some of the elements that were carried over across the pond are tweaked for a North American audience. For instance, Aidan was turned during the American Revolutionary War, not World War 1. The old aristocracy of vampires apparently consists is not European nobility, but a single queen known as "Mother", assisted by a group of traditionalist vampires living in Amish country. Some characters (including the protagonists) also own and use firearms in the remake, which obviously couldn't happen in the UK because of British gun control laws.

** A really good example goes to Cat and Aiden [[spoiler: admitting that they love each other and like their mundane life together]] to [[spoiler: Suzanne flogging herself in penance as we find out through flashback that she killed her son Issac during her first feeding.]]

* NothingAfterDeath: Heavily implied to be the fate of vampires that are killed.

** [[spoiler:Done a second time with Rebecca. Poor guy cant catch a break.]]
** Josh insists that Aidan to do this with Kenny at the end of season 3. [[spoiler:Aidan can't make himself and lets him go. Fortunately, Kenny comes back better in season 4.]]
* ShoutOut:
-->'''Sally:''' Oh, ladies and gentlemen, {{the Bobbsey Twins}}. I am God, I am everywhere! I drive all night just to get back home!\\
'''Aidan:''' Are you trying to scare us...with ''BonJovi?''
** Also ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', as seen below.
** There's another Series/{{supernatural}} show where [[spoiler: a vampire is beheaded using barbed wire.]]
*** [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Two actually.]]

* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness - In the lower middle. It's ''possible'' to be good... but it's like going off a hard drug while [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere it walks around you.]] Aidan talkes about it a bit in season two and the show continues to emphasize the comparision to drugs: feeding 'live' is fairly euphoric and stopping cold turkey is... bad.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Completely and utterly averted in the third season.

'''Sally:''' It's all you guys ever talk about. "[[IJustWantToBeNormal I want to be normal]], but I can't, 'cause I eat people!" Et cetera.

* WorldOfSnark: Everyone manages to be a little snarky.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Pete, [[CoolOldGuy the vegetarian werewolf]], mentioned he was 39 when he looked at least two decades older than that. He explained that the strain of being a werewolf for most of his early life took its toll.