The Klaus mystery deepens, but we know what he looks like… don’t we?
It is unfortunate that we will have to wait another 5 weeks to see a new episode, so DVR this one because you know it will leave you with a ton of questions that will preoccupy you as you count down the days until we have a new episode.
~M.
(Thanks to @BeingHuman3 for pic)
These are the awards they handed out… LOL!
(Pic from @RussellTovey)
~M.
By: Maria G
The Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy films announced their nominees for the 37th annual Saturn Awards today and some of the nominations for the television category were a head-scratcher, such as nominations for Breaking Bad, The Closer and Leverage?
Also, the lack of nominations for actors who have shown a wide range in their acting abilities on their sci-fi/horror/fantasy shows like Nelsan Ellis of True Blood and Nina Dobrev of the Vampire Diaries. Sometimes, you just have to wonder how these awards shows pick their nominees. Wait?!? What about the BBC’s Being Human? Where is it?
On a happier note, the Walking Dead was honored with six nominations for Best Television Presentation, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Guest Starring Role.
Best Network Series:
Fringe (Fox)
Lost (ABC)
Smallville (CW)
Supernatural (CW)
V (ABC)
The Vampire Diaries (CW)
Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series:
Breaking Bad (AMC)
The Closer (TNT)
Dexter (Showtime)
Eureka (SyFy)
Leverage (TNT)
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Starz)
True Blood (HBO)
Best Television Presentation:
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (BBC America)
Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (NBC)
The Pillars of the Earth (Starz)
Sherlock (PBS)
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (Starz)
The Walking Dead (AMC)
Best Actor in Television:
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Matthew Fox (Lost)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Timothy Hutton (Leverage)
Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead)
Stephen Moyer (True Blood)
Best Actress in Television:
Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead)
Erica Durance (Smallville)
Elizabeth Mitchell (V)
Anna Paquin (True Blood)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Anna Torv (Fringe)
Best Supporting Actor in Television:
Michael Emerson (Lost)
John Noble (Fringe)
Dean Norris (Breaking Bad)
Terry O’Quinn (Lost)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Lance Reddick (Fringe)
Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead)
Best Supporting Actress in Television:
Morena Baccarin (V)
Gina Bellman (Leverage)
Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)
Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead)
Lucy Lawless (Spartacus: Blood and Sand)
Beth Riesgraf (Leverage)
Best Guest Starring Role in Television:
Richard Dreyfuss (Weeds)
Noah Emmerich (The Walking Dead)
Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad)
Joe Manganiello (True Blood)
John Terry (Lost)
Seth Gabel (Fringe)
Who do you think will win The Saturns?
The awards will be presented in June in Burbank, CA.
TVG – The Vampire Diaries‘ Jenna Sommers remains clueless about Mystic Falls’ supernatural inhabitants. But as we saw last week, she may be catching on.
“She started having these inklings and mistrust creeping in largely due to what John has been mumbling,” says Sara Canning. “Jenna is straight up with Alaric and says, ‘If this is going to work you need to be honest with me’ and he really doesn’t have anything to say.”
That moment of silence from Jenna’s boyfriend, Alaric, played by Matt Davis, was the last scene between the couple in the most recent episode, and Canning admits, “It’s very uncertain if the relationship is going to completely crumble.”
On Thursday’s episode, Alaric finally will confess to Jenna. But what will he divulge? Let’s just say she won’t find out niece Elena is dating a vampire anytime soon.
“The confession is linked to what is more pressing on Jenna … she’s obviously not asking about his vampire-fighting extracurricular activities,” says the actress.
Jenna previously thought Alaric had a dead ex-wife named Isobel, but John has been pushing her to probe Alaric about the subject.
“She thinks she’s dead. When John is saying, ‘Did they find her body?’ it bothers her, but a large part of her is like, this is what he does — he comes back to town and stirs up stuff just to stir it up,” Canning says. “I think it’s a definite discomfort, but I don’t know that she’s imagined what it would be like to meet Isobel or be told she’s alive.”
If Jenna only knew Isobel was not only alive, but a vampire who’s Elena’s biological mother.
Canning says her character has grown as a parental guardian and as a person making smarter choices, so she’s excited about what lies ahead:
“In the next few episodes we’re going to see something happen that is really going to rock her world and have her question if she is in such a steady and stable spot as she thought she was.”
Do you want her to learn the truth or is ignorance bliss?
Question: Got any scoop on The Vampire Diaries? —Ellie
Ausiello: Thursday’s episode is not to be missed. It boasts two deaths, one super-romantic Matt/Caroline scene, and — in the hour’s final minutes — a doozy of a twist.
Who do you guys think will die? Bets anyone?
~M.
“Tainted,” part 1. Our friends in Bon Temps just can’t seem to catch a break these days. Sookie Stackhouse’s world is turned upside down when contaminated bottles of Tru Blood cause the Southern Vampire population to go berserk! Looks like those growing human/vampire tensions aren’t going to simmer down anytime soon! But who (or what) is behind the bad “Blood”? And Hoyt plans to do what for Jessica?! The latest “head-turning” story arc of the True Blood comic series starts here!
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E! – Vampiroid vs. WereGhost! Blood-Monger vs. Wolf Specter! The “Real” Housemates of Boston Common. C.S.I.: Cadavers, Super Interesting.
These are the blockbuster titles brainstormed by Being Human star Sam Huntington when we suggested the brilliant Syfy series might need a new name to rival the ratings of its network’s Saturday-night schlockfests. (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid was seen by millions.)
Strangely, the best new show of 2011 is not attracting the viewers it deserves. The British cult classic remake has a wickedly smart, original script and captivating characters—a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf sharing the rent in a Boston brownstone—played by a lovable cast who get along so famously they just vacationed together in Hawaii. (We tackled Sam, who plays werewolf Josh, when we spotted him on the return flight last night.)
Last week, we also chatted with Being Human show runner Jeremy Carver (who helms the series with his wife, Anna Fricke), who promised the show is about to get even darker and funnier. Based on his writing for Supernatural (including last season’s perverse zombie episode “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”), we believe him.
Here’s why you should tune in…
The bloody sex scene between Rebecca and Aidan was intense. Are we going to see more of that kind of graphic content on Being Human?
The short answer is yes, in different ways. I think the premise here is to handle it slightly more on an adult level, or hopefully, and to me it’s sort of grounded and real and when you think about vampires having sex—I think Aidan [Sam Witwer] says it in the episode, “blood leads to bloodlust”—and so sex and bloodlust are sort of intertwined when it comes to a vampire. And arousal. At least in that world.
So what about Aidan’s relationships with humans? Will we see a human-vampire romance this season?
You’re going to see Aidan attempting to have more relationships with humans—not necessarily sexual or romantic. The show likes to pop around in time, so we’ll see moments where all of our vampires are perhaps having or revisiting a relationship in their past.
How much is Syfy’s Being Human deviating from the original U.K. version?
Sally’s death is the same as it was in the U.K. version. But after episode six we start to deviate a lot. Early in the season we hinted to the U.K. viewer that you’re going to see some familiar characters and situations that you may recognize, but we’re going to start twisting them off in different ways than you expect. In episode six you see a mixture of completely new situations and then something borrowed from the U.K. version—which we then spin off in a very different way. From this point on, I don’t think anything [the U.K. fans] recognize will turn out in the way they expect.
Can you tease what’s to come for each of the characters? Starting with Josh: Are we going to see Josh’s fiancée and the rest of his family, including his sister?
You’re going to see Josh [Sam Huntington] eventually confront his family, in what is a really, really exciting episode. The show takes a big departure from what people are expecting—it’s completely original to the American version. And it is a funny, scary, heartbreaking episode when Josh confronts his family. You’re going to see Josh further explore romance, [which] is going to make him, as most things, come directly into conflict with how much of himself to share, of his real self to share with the person that he loves, which will lead to some pretty severe consequences. I don’t think Josh is smart enough to realize it yet, but you don’t beat up a vampire like Marcus without consequences. So we’re going to see Josh and Aidan’s world collide a little more than they would like.
What’s ahead for Aidan?
You mentioned that you found the bloody nature of Aidan and Rebecca’s sexual relationship to be a little risqué. Their relationship continues down an even more twisted sort of way. These are two people who have feelings for each other and there is something in the original ingredient of how they came together—Aidan killed her—that they can never shake. We’re going to see them explore this sort of lover’s relationship in a frisky, graphic, scary, adult and surprising way. You’re going to see Aidan being spun into Bishop’s [Mark Pellegrino] web more and more as the season goes on, leaving him grasping on how to extricate himself from Bishop’s control after 270-odd years. In particular you’re going to see us delve much deeper into Aidan and Bishop’s relationship in the past. Their relationship has taken some quite severe turns over the years, which is [now] all coming to a head. You’re going to learn a lot of surprising things about each of them when you visit with them in the past, which we’re really excited about. I think it’s super cool.
And Sally, the ghost with the most?
Sally finally remembers how she died, [and with that] there is a certain retribution for her death that must be paid. This is a woman who, having learned how she died, is now going to take control of her death in a way that she had not done so before. And it’s not going to come easy. She’s going to go down a couple really dark, really long, really scary paths to get there, and I can’t even say it ends all that great. But she is hell-bent on reclaiming some sense of who she was after she learns how she died.
But there’s no guarantee that closure is about bunny rabbits and rainbows. Closure can be a very messy, scary thing—[especially] for Sally. Sally flirts between the dark side and the good side. She’s going to meet ghosts that have all the wrong intentions for her, and ghosts that are romantic relationships, and it’s going to be a constant struggle. Josh, too—and Aidan as well—is constantly struggling between good and bad. In the second half of the season Sally struggles with that a lot more, like the boys do.
EW - While saving Annie (Lenora Crichlow) from Purgatory (where she’s been stuck since last season’s finale), Aidan Turner’s Mitchell discovered that, unlike most vampires, he’s going to die. And a werewolf is going to kill him—which is pretty problematic because he lives with two. So does this mean that Turner, who recently landed the major role of dwarf Kili in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit could be leaving the cult hit? The actor chatted with EW from the movie’s New Zealand set to straighten things out, talk a bit about The Hobbit and spill some more details about Mitchell’s new storyline, the much-hyped return of his bloodsucking season 1 foe Herrick (Jason Watkins), his blossoming relationship with ghost Annie, and more
(SPOILER-phobes beware).
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You were sporting a pretty impressive beard at the Hobbit press conference. Is that for Kili?
AIDAN TURNER: Yeah, it is. I’m growing out the beard. We’re giving it a chance, seeing what it looks like.
Is that how Peter Jackson plans to make you less handsome and more dwarf-like?
To de-handsomify me? [Laughs] No, not really. I mean, famously in the books, the dwarves have really long beards, so we’re just trying stuff out and seeing what it looks like.
Are you in “hobbit boot camp” now?
Yeah. Well, it’s dwarf boot camp, not really hobbit boot camp. It’s just all dwarves—training and stuff.
What are you training in?
I can’t really give too much away, you know? But it’s pretty much everything. It’s physical training and everything you can imagine, really. I guess just working as an actor helps you for these things. It’s more physical than anything else, but there’s dialect coaching and all those kind of things.
How did your Being Human cast react to you getting The Hobbit role?
They were all very happy—super happy. Everyone was thrilled.
In the premiere, Mitchell meets the ghosts of the 20 people he killed on a train last season. He’s been murdering for over a hundred years, why does this particular massacre freak him out?
[The murder investigation] plays a massive part in the new season. It haunts him. I think to a certain extent he thought he got away with it. He’s been so good at killing, it’s something he’s always specialized in—this one just seems to have gone a bit wrong because he was with Daisy, who’s crazy. It went further than they thought and it comes to bite him in the arse. It’s something he feels very guilty about, and he’s hidden from George, Nina and Annie. Now he just can’t hide it anymore. He needs to make some decisions—and that’s what you see him do in season 3. Does he admit to the murders and risk losing his friends? Does he go to prison? There is this whole host of things that he gets tied up with.
He and Annie also fall for each other. When did you first realize that was a possibility?
When I got the script [laughs], I think, for the third episode. I guess we’ve always had a connection, but nothing hinted to me that they might hook up, because Annie’s just so dead and Mitchell’s always so busy doing stuff. It seemed like they would never naturally gravitate towards each other. It’s just that once he saves her from Purgatory, she sees him as a knight in shining armor. And he’s all over the place, feeling so guilty about so many other things, that he just gets involved, you know?
Well, he did learn that’s he’s going die—and at the hands of a werewolf, or more specifically a “wolf-shaped bullet.”
Yeah, It freaks him out for almost the entire season. It’s so high intensity in the first episode when he goes to get Annie back. He runs into this character, Lia, who gives him this premonition that he’s going to be murdered and he just runs away with the idea. He starts seeing “signs”—he freaks himself out over what seems like nothing. It’s paranoia more than anything else. I guess before Herrick died, he assumed that no vampire could be killed. But with Herrick, he saw that it is possible. And then, when Herrick returns later in the season, Mitchell wants to find out why and how, so that he can stay around as well. It’s all a bit crazy.
That’s something everyone wants to know: How can Herrick come back to life after being torn limb-from-limb by George in season 1?
His head wasn’t cut off. He was just ripped apart. That’s why his body parts were put back together, whereas to kill a vampire I think the head has to be pulled off.
But Ivan’s head wasn’t pulled off, and he’s not coming back.
Ivan is my favorite! Yeah, shabby BBC writing, if you know what mean—not consistent at all [laughs].
Do you know who is going to wield the “wolf-shaped bullet” that threatens Mitchell?
I would pretty much have to know, wouldn’t I? [Laughs] Can I tell you? Probably not.
Well, can you tell us anything about new werewolf McNair then?
He’s an old school werewolf played by Robson Green, who is quite a big deal in Britain. He had a single—a UK top number one single—about 15 years ago. He’s fantastic, and his character is amazing. McNair isn’t aware that there are many other werewolves, and George isn’t either, and then they cross paths and open up the doors to this sordid underground torture ring where vampires get werewolves to fight each other.
Is he Mitchell’s new foil?
He is a little bit. I don’t think Mitchell is fond of werewolves anyway. He can deal with George and just about deal with Nina. I think he had a quote, something like “There’s four too many werewolves in this house”—we cut the line out, but I remember that.
Do you and McNair come to blows?
It gets pretty heightened, yeah. It might come to blows—there’s a possibility it does. I think there were a few fights, whether they end up in the final episode, I’m not so sure. But it gets pretty scary for a second.
How is he different from Herrick?
Herrick’s got strands of pure evil coursing through his veins, whereas I think McNair’s generally a good guy. He’s loyal and protective of his son. Herrick is just manipulative and a bad piece of work, whereas McNair is a standup father figure. Herrick is really a slimeball, but a beautiful slimeball, I must say.
Will Herrick and McNair meet?
They certainly do.
Will they face off?
There’s a possibility. There’s a possibility of something happening there.
After the premiere aired in the UK, and Mitchell found out about his imminent death, the Internet went wild with speculation that this was a set up for you to depart the show now that you’re starting a film career.
Well, that’s what the Internet does, isn’t it? It fuels gossip and stuff. It’s a long shoot over here for The Hobbit. It’s two movies. We haven’t talked yet about dates for series four of Being Human. It’s so up in the air and it’s so far away that I can’t really commit to anything. And they need to plot out storylines and see how long they need Mitchell for, so I guess we won’t know until a later date what’s going on.
So, you are planning on returning to the show.
Yeah, if it all works out. The BBC needs to talk to me about dates. All the boring stuff needs to be cleaned up, and then I guess we’ll see.
Then being cast in The Hobbit hasn’t majorly altered your life or career yet?
I don’t think until the first movie comes out that anything is really going to change. I’m just going to keep working. In that regard, nothing’s changed. I’ve been pretty busy with Being Human and I’ve gone straight on to The Hobbit. It’s a really long project and it’s really enjoyable and brilliant and we’re all dead excited to be doing it. So nothing’s changed.
By: Maria G.
Synopsis: Herrick is back, but is he megalomaniac vampire or defenseless victim? His life hangs in the balance whilst the housemates try to decide.
My thoughts on the episode: Never has a title fit an episode of a television show so appropriately. By the end of the episode I was wound so tightly that you could have struck a match on me.
But, let me digress…
In the episode, Herrick has returned as a lost soul that has no clue of what his true nature is. He has been “rescued” by Nina from the hospital’s psych ward, for fear that the local coppers would find out what he is and therefore bring vampires to light to society. Well, Nina decides that the best thing to do is to being Herrick to the B&B and all hell breaks loose.
We already knew that Mitchell has become a bit unhinged (because of the knowledge of how he will die), but throw Herrick in to the mix and well he reaches new levels of psychosis that makes the Mitchellettes out there cringe. Not only does he make a pact with Cara (who misses Herrick and is trying to make him like his old self) to find out how Herrick came back from the grave, he accuses Nina of being the thing that may undo him and he also shatters Annie by stating that he really wasn’t in love with her… but in love with the hero aspect of rescuing her from purgatory.
I know, bad Mitchell…
Mitchell is not the only Supe that is affected by Herrick. He soothes the savage beasts (Nina and George) and has lulled them into believing that he is a harmless man that is in need of help.
Now, I’m glad that Herrick is back in the show because he knows how to make our little band of Supes bonkers, but those moments where he speaks with everyone alone makes my spidey-senses go off. Also, those moments where Herrick realizes something is amiss with what he is and some of the inhabitants of the B&B is great.
Something happens at the end of the episode that will cause further issues for Mitchell and his past indiscretions and let me tell you… once you know what happens, it will make you fall off your chair.
Favorite moment: When George confronts Mitchell and makes him make a choice and I loved the harried social worker named Wendy. She was a bright spot in a very dark episode.
Least favorite moment: Cara’s demise.
Overall, this episode was great, it was well written and had me hooked until the very end.
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