Being Human [tv.2008-current]

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Cult

"it's not us that are monsters, it's THEM! i can't believe it took me this long to figure it out!"

imagine having those line delivered from a "vegetarian" vampire, who tried all his might living among us. humans.

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you, my current addiction in TV-series area, Being Human.

the story centred around three friends spiced up with supernatural issue. Mitchell [Aidan Turner], George [Russell Tovey] and Annie [Lenora Crichlow]. a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost respectfully. they shared a flat in quiet city of Bristol, Mitchell and George working in a local hospital. while Annie, since she can't do much in the neighbourhood now that she's a ghost, she stayed at home, taking care of the house, and making tea. lots of them. they live each day as normal as possible, while keeping low profile about their true self.


but, each one of them had their own demon to face. Mitchell is playing cat and mouse with a league of ancient vampire, trying to summon him to the dark side, living ye olde lifestyle of an undead bloodsucker, drinking from human. George still coping to the fate that he was bitten by a werewolf when he was on holiday in Scotland, and having a cruel transformation every month that might harm peple around him. and Annie was trying to figure out what went wrong in her death, that made her stayed back in limbo. and wondering if the relationship between her fiancee, Owen [Gregg Chillin] and the girl she always had suspicion of.

as other British series [that i've seen so far], it filled with spectacular scripts, fantastic dialogues and fabulous sense of dark humour. each character got their own uniqueness, and to be really honest, it's hard to pick which one to like the most. in characters, but since i'm one shallow bitch, i'll go for Mitchell. he's hot. and adorable!

the three of them was quite an item - yes in threes, not twos - it's hard to see any of them got a significant other. the romances between them is so strong, it had filled their own cup for the whole episodes!


so, if you're a fan for series such as The X-Files and Supernatural, i would recommend this for you.

thanks to Sup who brought this up during our chat in Bandung.

ps. Images taken from Google Image Search.

In Treatment: Episodes 1-2

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Drama

finally! In Treatment!
i've been waiting for ages to lay my hands on these series!
yes, i'd known this series since 2007. where the news about it first came out. not after the Golden Globe winning, unlike some people *yes, i'm being a bitch here*.

In Treatment ... well, as the title the series is about a therapy session of a psychiatrist, Paul, and his patients. each episode is half an hour long, and it reflects one session. so you will only find two people on each episode. at least, that's what i've seen so far. every patient has each problem of their own. and the set was simply in the doctor's house. entering from the front door and exiting from the back door. i like that.

you will join the doctor to listen every story given from his patient.
the first episode i've seen were about this girl who was in an unstable relationship with his boyfriend, until one night she had a chance to cheat on him, out of her pressure of the relationship, but she didn't do it. and what was the actual reson for her not doing so.

the second episode was about a navy soldier whose lastt task was to drop a bomb on an area, that was actually where a madrasah been held. the bomb killed sixteen children. curiously, after the task was done he went back to the post and sleep 'like a baby'. he claimed that he had no guilty concious whatsoever, and felt nothign when his face was spreaded around the net, and he was searched for killing the children.
instead he took a jog with his best friend, a doctor and also gay. suddenly he "died". without a light tunnel and no flashes of earlier life before his eyes. somehow, he went back to life and came to meet Paul. the actual reason for the soldier, Alex [wtf?!], to met Paul [WTF?!] was to have an advice. Alex was planning gong back to the site of the madrasah that he bombed.



Paul was dead clever. at one point, you would think that he was asking all the standard procedures a psychiatrist would say. but, he was not. he listens. he would listen, ask some somewhat sounded silly and lame question. but then, in the end, BAM! he would make a comment that hit the very target of the problem. not entirely, still the surface, but it hits.

and guess, what made it more interesting for me.
Paul has his own psychiatrist.
wicked.

when it was aired on HBO last year, the series was played five nights a week. one episode for one session on the same day it aired.

i need more episodes!!
i need more of Mr. Byrne!!