‘Being Human’ Season 4 Premiere Review

[This is a review of the Being Humanseason 4 premiere. There will be SPOILERS.]

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Being Humans fourth season premiere (Old Dogs, New Tricks) picks-up three months after the events of the season 3 finale (despite the nine month real-time gap between episodes) with Aidan (Sam Witwer) and Nora (Kristen Hager) running through the woods from a wolfed out Josh (Sam Huntington) while Sally (Meaghan Rath) is trapped in some kind of purgatory spa. The two sequences are far from the dreary Boston apartment and the shows other familiar locales, but while the surroundings are a bit different, the episode doesnt take long to snip some of last seasons remaining plot threads while pulling out a few new ones.

Firstly, Josh is still a wolf following last seasons cliffhanger. Essentially,his human to werewolf ratio flipped 180 degrees to where he only turns human one night a month which just so happens to be the night that Nora turns into a wolf. Theres a weird romantic poetry to the ships-passing-in-the-night status of their relationship and unbound passion at play when they finally see each other after those separately torturous days, but we can see Joshs underlying pain seeping out. The reunion is bittersweet, brief, and if Josh has his way, a goodbye.

Slipping in and out of his human consciousness while spending his wolf time alternately in a barn stall and in the forest where he chases his friends for exercise, Josh knows that Aidan and Nora feel duty-bound to tend to him in his wolf state, but he is desperate to free them from that burden and asks Aidan to kill him. A request that is rejected and pushed aside by Aidan and Josh with too much ease a disappointing trend that is also at play when it comes time to resolve Sallys situation.

Held by Donna who may not be as cut-and-dry evil as we thought in season 3 Sallys escape from her holding cellis predictable, too easy (theres the trend), and one of the coolest visuals in the episode as it switches between the sight of Sally swinging from a rope in a big box retailer and an olde Massachusetts witch trial.

Her escape and return to the group may also signal doom and a more ambitious footprint for the show if Donnas warnings about Sallys powers and her presence in the realm of the living prove to be true. But Donnas exit feels entirely too quick and her intentions far too noble following her arc from last season. Will she return as the season delves into realm of witchcraft and the reason for Sallys spiritual durability?

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‘Being Human’ Season 4 Premiere Review