Syfy’s Being Human trio are embroiled in a doo-doo storm of disaster! The last episode left our sexy roommates in a bad place: Aidan got injected with the vamp flu, Sally’s appetite for fresh flesh grows stronger as her body decomposes, and Josh was scratched by a werewolf (Liam) again. In “Of Mice and Wolfmen” they deal with this trio of supernatural problems the way that only attractive twenty-somethings can. I guess it’s just not easy growing up anywhere.
Nora meets a veteran wolf, Pete, after her wolf’s night out. He’s a friendly, hippy werewolf who is at peace with himself and the Earth. After taking Nora’s polite offer literally, he barges in on Nora and the gang at home, bringing with him one big-ass pot of chili. It’s a good thing, too, because chili is just what everyone wants when there’s someone vomiting themselves to death upstairs. Anyway, Josh, Pete, and Nora hang out, become buddies, and he teaches them how to meditate in order to better understand their wolves. Josh tries to reach out to his, but can’t connect to it because of how much work he’s put into suppressing it over the years. On that note, isn’t it awful damn fast for him to get turned back into a werewolf? He just got over that crap and it was interesting seeing him as the non-supernatural member of the gang. If this re-wolfening does stick, I, for one, will be upset.
Sally’s body decays even further, so much so that she jabs her toothbrush through her cheek while brushing. After panicking a bit about the hole in her cheek, she gets the munchies again, and ends up catching a mouse and gobbling it up. After she’s done with her disgusting dinner she notices that the hole in her cheek is gone. It seems there’s a learning curve to everything on this show, even being a zombie. She confesses her mouse-chowing to Nick, and he confesses that he’s been doing the same thing. All seems fine until Sally visits the pet store and finds herself hungrily staring down the guinea pigs, kittens, puppies, and even a little kid. She recognizes that eating small animals will only lead her to hunger for humans and, given that she’s had not one, but two chances at being alive, decides to forego eating fresh flesh at all. She’d rather decompose and die again than harm someone else, which is the decent and sensible thing to do, something you’d never see out of, say, the cast of self-centered bloodsuckers on The Vampire Diaries.
One thing she didn’t seem to consider yet, however, is that she’s already sold her soul. How’s she going to get out of this mess? No matter what happens, I like where this has led us. Being Human season three has been about the roommates being cute and active, and a constant downpour of supernatural misery making their lives complicated. Sally’s fear that small flesh will lead to big flesh is proved deadly accurate by episode’s end- Nick becomes so overwhelmed with hunger that he leaps at Zoe. Nooo! She’s too cool to get picked off so soon.
Speaking of dying, Aidan was injected with the vamp flu so he stays in bed, mostly unconscious and dying, while Josh and Nora eat chili downstairs. The next morning they find he’s made a spontaneous and miraculous recovery! Through the process of elimination, they determine that werewolf blood is the cure. He drank from Josh a week ago, and then Erin the Teen wolf a few days ago. He decides to tell Blake his discovery in exchange that she won’t touch Kenny, Nora, or Josh. Umm, what about friendly wolf Pete? In the end, Blake leads a group of vampires as they attack and kill one of Liam’s henchmen. Could this be the start of a vampire-werewolf war? Josh and Nora can thank Aidan for that.
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
