Promoting Human
Well, speak of the devil — specifically, speak of SyFy’s Being Human on this week’s DVD Day, and lo and behold, a new promo for Being Human season 2 comes out. While it doesn’t seem that informative to me, it does make it look pretty damned exciting and fun, so that’s cool. It also seems like the leads have a bit more chemistry together, which is what I thought was mostly lacking in those first few episodes of season 1, so that’s a good thing, too. Especially now that Russell Tovey, a.k.a. George the werewolf, announced he’s leaving the original British Being Human too, leaving only original recipe Nina and ghost Annie. Apparently the show will go on, but I have no idea how when 2/3rds its original leads have gone, and one of the two cast members is the mother of George’s unborn werewolf baby. All I’m saying is Being Human fans might want to start transferring their affections over to the new show, just in case.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.