Like most, I stumbled upon the U.K. version of Being Human and enjoyed it. When news that Canadian production company Muse was planning to redo the show, again, like most I kind of just shrugged it off as just another ongoing trend of rebooting already established works too soon. Eventually I got around to watching it when the hype grew too large to ignore and found myself enjoying it.

What’s great about the show is that, aside from the first couple of episodes in season 1, this version of Being Human tries to move in a different direction then it’s UK version. Something’s remain the same, only slightly deviated and then set back on course, and other elements are completely new.

In season 2 we find Aiden (Sam Witwer; Star Wars: The Clones Wars) stepping into the void where his mentor Bishop once reigned. It’s a tasking job trying to keep the new born vamps from creating massive bloodshed as well as all the political implications from above and it’s pulling him away from Sally and Josh, who’ve got their own problems.

Sally has missed her door, the portal that would take her into the next world, and staying behind has caused her to gain new and improved powers that are starting to pull her into the dark. Like all things naïve when discovering new strengths. Sally goes on a selfish ghostly bender that leaves consequences to answer for at a later time.

Josh inadvertently may have turned his girlfriend into a werewolf with a simple scratch. He doesn’t know it but she has some suspicions which are pretty much rectified when the full moon rises.

The introductions are over as far as the three main characters are concerned and the show dips into the dark as the second season proves more troublesome for the three. So how did it look on Blu-Ray.

PICTURE QUALITY:
Pristine. Immaculate. I have always been in love with the werewolf transformation done by Rick Baker in the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London. When Baker failed to capitalize on his reputation with the flop remake of The Wolfman in 2010, choosing to use CGI to create the transformation for Benicio Del Toro’s wolfman, I threw my hands up realizing if Baker couldn’t make it look good no one could. I was surprised and happy to find that both the UK version and the US version looked fantastic. Of course seeing as how CGI is a variable in the transformation I did worry that it would come out looking cheesy on Blu-Ray. On the contrary, the depth of detail gives the transformation a more realistic quality and sets the tone for the rest of the series, which is apparently handled with kid gloves since the production always looks so sharp.

Other then that I was impressed with how rich the black levels looked. No white hazes during night time scenes, no contrast when CGI enters the picture. It all looks and sounds fantastic.

BONUS FEATURES:
~2 Featurettes
~Interviews
~Being Human at San Diego Comic-con 2012