Being Human: House Hunting

[This is areviewforBeing Humanseason 4, episode 12. There will be SPOILERS.]

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After four seasons, we know quite a bit about Aidans guilt for the monstrous misdeeds that his hunger has nudged him toward, Joshs fear that his own inner monster will one day overtake his life and everything he loves, Noras worries that she and her husband will never live a normal life, and Sallys newfound fear that she isnt good enough for Aidan, but were not the only ones.

An obviously growing threat during last weeks episode, Ramona elevates her evil beyond expectations, bubbling over after the group steps away from her innocent seeming pleas so that they can go talk at the grown-ups table. Once there, Josh briefs the group on his worries about Ramona following last weeks massacre while Aidan and Sally trade coded lovers looks despite their relationships relative youth. When they return, though, Ramona has departed, only to return when her twin sister, Beatrice, shows up.

Clean and concise, Beatrices insight into Ramonas awful backstory clears up any residual questions about the girls parents and how her ghost wound up in that hidden room, but when Ramona reacts violently to her sisters presence essentially force choking her to death it pushes the gang to run for the exits, setting off the game, as Ramona calls it.

Mixing an icy confidence that all of her new-found dominoes will fall and a general sense of glee over the festivities, young Helen Colliander steels this episode as Ramona, an evil ring leader who is more than a mere corduroy clad ghost and deeply connected to the house. Ramona craves blood, and so, she sets out to extract it by tricking the group members into spilling it themselves.

To do this, she isolates them, pairing them each with a familiar (but not entirely expected) ghost from their past to play on the above mentioned insecurities while slowly driving them to their end, the camera floating and pulsing throughout to signify the nightmare state.

Aidan and Josh get the worst of it, with Aidans vampire off-spring, Henry, singing him to shipwreck by convincing him that atoning for his sins and saving all others from future harm will allow him to truly be with Sally in the afterlife a stake conveniently rolling across the cold basement floor as an increasingly bright white light bathes the room to underwrite Henrys divine promises. Only Sally who figures out Ramonas game before the others can stop him from pushing the stake into his chest, same as Aidan stops Josh from putting a knife into his chest after he his worst fears seemingly come true.

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Being Human: House Hunting