The British have always had some odd luck with fantasy television; usually bad, although the recent zombie revival (excuse the pun) has inspired some excellent horror/drama in the form of In The Flesh among others. Being Human isn't (or wasn't) a bad series, and the premise is a cracker - a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost are all flatmates trying to hide their true natures from one another - but there's an inherent naffness to most British dramas that this show couldn't quite shake, even in its first season. Being Human played fast and loose with tone and plot, often flip-flopping between kitchen sink drama and quirky comedy to dark, angsty horror and gruesome war flashbacks, which is probably to be expected when three characters that are polar opposites of each other are thrown together. A comic version of the story might have been better-equipped to handle the change in style and mood as with the simple turn of a page you can be in another world with no affectation of a natural transition, whereas an ever-moving TV episode has to try and shift gears in full view. The monster effects also occasionally left something to be desired - a problem that doesn't exist in comics, where an artist's ability to execute a suitably terrifying werewolf attack would be the only limitation. The creators may also have been able to focus on the same characters for the story's duration as opposed to keeping the same actors for just a couple of seasons until they decided they'd had enough.
