Comments | selenak: Being Human 5.04 and Call The Midwife 2.04

selenak

Being Human 5.04 and Call The Midwife 2.04

Feb 26, 2013 10:08

Still in the business of catcching up, I'll start with the midwives:

( Episode 2.04 )

call the midwife, episode review, being human

Comments 4

daybreak777 February 27 2013, 04:06:33 UTC

Loving CtM so much. May wait on the final ep. I don't want it to end until the second book is in my hands at least. Only took me a day to read the first one, though.

Something about this show completely relaxes me as I watch. I think it's something about how things are revealed, slowly but gently and not over-simplified. Even side characters have a story to tell. I wish more TV was like this.

You finished The Wire! Oooh! I hope you find my posts. I hope you have one more post and lots to say. It's a lot of show in those five seasons.

selenak February 27 2013, 04:12:20 UTC

Didn't you see my fifth season Wire post? I put it up last week already.

I think it's something about how things are revealed, slowly but gently and not over-simplified. Even side characters have a story to tell.

Yes indeed. It's so very humane, the show, in the best sense.

daybreak777 February 27 2013, 04:43:44 UTC

No, I missed it! *goes to look*

Humane, yes that's totally it. :-)

abigail_n February 27 2013, 21:43:06 UTC

There were points in this episode were it felt as if it were driving towards the fundamental hopelessness that is at Being Human's center - at the end of the day, this is a show that keeps concluding that the project of living human lives is, for its characters, hopeless and at best temporary. Which means that I found it simultaneously interesting and frustrating; interesting because the show rarely has a character acknowledge that the rehabilitation effort is at best a stopgap measure and that eventually more people will die or become werewolves because of it, as Hal does in this episode, and frustrating because as usual the show doesn't seem willing to actually face up to how hopeless a story it's telling. It keeps circling back to the hope that this time things will be different, and yet they never are. It's not that I want Being Human to be a grimfest about monsters who are just human enough to wish they weren't monsters, and whose only hope to hold on to their humanity is suicide (though you could certainly argue that the ( ... )