History Series / BeingHumanremake

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are immortal, but need to drink blood to keep them strong and healthy. If deprived of blood for too long, they will grow increasingly weak and sick before eventually shutting down and entering a sort of stasis (they will normally lose control and attack humans long before this point, though). Garlic is not harmful to them, but it will expose their vampiric traits (fangs, black eyes, etc.). They can go into sunlight without bursting into flames, but Aidan describes them as being "photosensitive". The only surefire ways of killing them are to pierce the heart with a wooden stake, beheading them, or draining them of blood. The VampireInvitation rule is also in effect, and if a vampire enters the home of a mortal without being invited, their skin begins to boil and burn.

* TheAtoner: Aidan.

-->"We are the definition of hotmess!"

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Pete, [[CoolOldGuy the vegetarian werewolf]], mentioned he was in his early forties when he looked at least a decade or two older than that. He explained that having the equivalent of a heart attack every month for thirty years tends to take its toll.
** [[spoiler: At the start of season 4, the strain of being a wolf for 29 days a month has taken it's toll on Josh. Less in the aging and more in that it's very clear he's starting to forget how to be human - he has trouble walking and talking without sounding like he's much much older.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Aidan is over two hundred years old (257 as of the first season, to be exact), having been turned during {{the American Revolution}}, but looks to be in his mid-20s. Bishop, the vampire who transformed him, is older, although we don't know by how much.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are immortal, but need to drink blood to keep them strong and healthy. If deprived of blood for too long, they will grow increasingly weak and sick before eventually shutting down and entering a sort of stasis (they will normally lose control and attack humans long before this point, though). Garlic is not harmful to them, but it will expose their vampiric traits (fangs, black eyes, etc.). They can go into sunlight without bursting into flames, but Aidan describes them as being "photosensitive". The only surefire ways of killing them are to pierce the heart with a wooden stake, beheading them, or draining them of blood. The VampireInvitation rule is also in effect, and if a vampire enters the home of a mortal without being invited, their skin begins to boil and burn.

* DemonicPossession: Sally accidentally possessed the medium who attempted to exorcise her in Season 1, an act she likens to a panicked mother lifting a car that has rolled on to her child. But she learns in Season 2 that she can possess certain people, particularly when they're drunk or stoned. (Some people simply cannot be possessed at all.) The experience is pure ecstasy for ghosts, as they are able to experience the senses of touch and taste again, but there are obviously ethical dilemmas about stealing someone's body, which is why certain ghosts won't do it. Sally [[spoiler: ends up repeatedly possessing a woman to the point where the woman starts 'remembering' some of Sally's memories, both alive and dead. The poor woman gets all the bad ones too, such as Sally dying and the Reaper coming after her.]]

* 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 is not European nobility, but rural Amish farm-dwellers. 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.

-->"We are the definition of hotness!"

* Vorpal Pillow: Erin's death by pillow takes a mere 12 seconds.

* NothingAfterDeath: Ghosts who are shredded or who "went through the wrong door" are apparently sent to a limbo filled with nothingness, which is painful for the spirits trapped there.
** We see it in person during season 3. For part of the time, they 'live' out their deaths constantly while being teased with images of regrets, what-ifs, and other things. For another part of the time, they're free to self-torture by being teased with wandering a grey world. And the rest... well, they just mention that that part is the worse of all.

* A Date with Rosie Palms: implied about Aiden when watching Rebecca's porno/snuff-film.

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: To a lesser extent, Donna's 'deal' for raising the dead. They come back to life and kill everyone they knew - she gains whatever it is she gains from the slain souls. They come back to life and change the deal so they don't kill everyone they know - she gains their soul for the same purpose. And either way, the risen are still very hungry zombies so their new life may not be as long lived as they think - she gains their soul and/or that of their victims.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Maybe the main characters are safe, but anyone else is fair game - young or old, friend or enemy.

''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 a big hit, and has been renewed for a fourth season.

** Also, Sam Witwer's working at a hospital, [[Series/Smallville again]].
* {{Adorkable}}: Josh.
* AffablyEvil: Bishop.

* AnyoneCanDie: Maybe the main characters are safe, but anyone else is fair game - young, old, male, female, friend, enemy.

** Then, there's the question of what happens to the babies souls...

* BigGood: Josh has somewhat developed into this for the household by season 3, in combination with his TeamDad status. Should he die, chances are Nora would go berserk, Aidan would jump off the slope, and Sally would be lost.

** The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent resurrected corpses]] in Season 3 begin to rot if they don't consume raw meat. One grisly scene in particular sees [[spoiler: Sally put a toothbrush through her cheek by accident]].

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Although there are certainly villains in this series, the ways that the protagonists deal with their problems aren't always noble.

* BusCrash: One that apparently took out most of the vampire race. During the time [[spoiler: that Aidan spent underground]], a virus caused most of the vampires to die, [[spoiler: including Mother]].
* [[CaliforniaDoubling Canada Doubling]]: Set in Boston, shot in Montreal. Oddly enough, a flashback in late Season 1 is ''set'' in Montreal around twenty years ago.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Heggeman's antique rifle and three silver bullets change hands several times throughout season 2. [[spoiler: Heggeman tries to kill Josh with it, but misses. Josh takes it and keeps it under his bed, and we don't see it again until halfway through the season when he gives it to Cecilia to kill Brynn and Connor. After Cecilia fails to do so and gets torn apart by the wolves, Aidan shoots Connor with the second bullet. Finally, in the last episode of the season, Josh brings the rifle with him into the woods and tries to kill Ray with the last bullet.]]

* CurseEscapeClause: Werewolves can lift the curse on themselves by killing the werewolf that first turned them. The catch? It has to be done while in human form. [[spoiler: The part where doing so also cures anyone you've infected, on the other hand, is just a hopeful myth.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Vampires get a laundry list of superpowers, which do offset their compulsion to murder innocent people somewhat. Some vampires view their condition this way, others don't. See also BlessedWithSuck.

** "Why is the bathroom mirror calling me a whore?"

* MoralityPet: Josh plays this as well as OnlySaneMan. Notable so in season 3 where an increasingly hostile household is explicitly held together 'for Josh's sake'.

** Also, the US version ''not'' having two of the PowerTrio's [[RealLifeWritesThePlot actors decide to bail]] means the UK and US versions are now very different shows.

* [[CaliforniaDoubling Canada Doubling]]: Set in Boston, shot in Montreal.

[[quoteright:350: ~~DramaticHourLong, MagicRealism~~]]

* VampireInvitation: Played straight. A vampire ''can'' enter a home uninvited, but he starts burning and quickly dies.[[hottip:*:This only applies if the house belongs to a living human (werewolves count).]] On one occasion, a vampire breaks into someone's house and attacks him, but flees before he suffers permanent harm.

* YouCanSeeMe - Sally is more than a little surprised that Aidan and Josh can see her. [[hottip:*:It's possible that the use of Wintersleep's "Weighty Ghost" earlier in the episode is a MusicalGag referring to this. "Oh, have you seen my ghost / Seen my ghost, seen my ghost..."]]

*** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Two actually.]]