Miss, Ms. or Mrs. Ryan, By the tone of your review, you are completely out of touch with the demographics this program is designed for. Maybe a more diverse critic can be hired for a follow up...

I find myself drawn to both versions of this series. For some reason I find myself cringing at some of the episodes. The British version is going down some very strange story lines.

In my personal opinion the American version is better, but both versions of the show are great! I’m glad SyFy ordered up a second season of Being Human. If you like watching Being Human on cable TV, I have some great news for you. You can get all of your favorite shows like Being Human in HD for less money than you’re paying cable by switching to DISH Network. As a DISH Network customer and employee I switched from cable TV to DISH, and have never been happier with my pay TV service.

Love the US version so far and I expect good things from it. The British version is a well-established show so any comparisons thus far are premature. But the comparisons are unavoidable, even when they're unwarranted, as in the case of The Office. The British version is a classic, but it only lasted 20 episodes or something. I can easily pick 40 episodes of the US version equally good or better than their British counterparts. So, no, I don't think the British version is better. I predict the US version of Being Human will have to endure comparisons even if its run is longer than the British original.

I passed on watching the US remake of Being Human. The BBC version had it's inconsistancies and unevenness, but I enjoyed watching it and I thought the performances were all quite good. I think my issues with the show was that it was a US remake and I personally felt like it was just a Twilight/Vampire Diaries attempted. And the second was that it was Syfy Channel, their decisions in the past 2 years have been EXTREMELY troubling. From the cancelling of Caprica and SGU (argue that issues another time), to the greenlighting of ridiculous "reality"shows Face Off and the cooking show that's coming from them soon.

Maybe I'll give it a shot, just to see what it's like which is only fair. But it's really going to have to wow me to keep me coming back.

The second series, especially the back half, of Being Human UK was some of THE best drama you'll see on TV. Nuff said. :)

After watching the premier last night I feel that the main problem with the US version may be more with the direction than the actors. The whole tone of it reminds me more of Twilight than it does the British series. It's all moping and being hyper-serious with a blue tint to all the shots. The sardonic humor of the UK version gives extra impact to the horror elements. I may give it a little time to improve, but so far I'm not impressed.

Okay, so I enjoyed the original but I'm definitely aware of its flaws...but also the things that gave it is own flavor. My complaint might seem odd- I think they didn't change it enough. And not necessarily strictly in a 'addressing the flaws' sense. But, for example, to me (and having lived in the UK) it made sense that the show was so urban (well, relative to Bristol). But I don't understand why it had to be set in New York. Surely, given the characters and their various angsts, they would have set out for one of the cities or decent sized towns in one of the many, many places in North America that are a stone's-throw away from sparsely populated, vast wildernesses.

Really, anywhere other than the most densely populated areas on the continent.

Okay, minor point, but I think it illustrates the point- adaptations should be more than shoving a premise into some near equivalent without considering the shifts in contexts.

If you watch the pilot of the BBC's Being Human, you will see that the original vision of Being Human didn't exactly work. Two of the Three Lead Roles were re-cast with only the George the Werewolf role having the same actor in the pilot and the eventual Being Human series. I would say that the "main attraction" of the BBC's Being Human series was/is Aiden Turner, not the show's stupid premise. I absolutely never got the impression that the characters in the BBC's Being Human were in their twenties. Sam Huntington, in my opinion, could take the US Being Human above its idiot premise and single-handedly be the reason people tune into the show, exactly what Aiden Turner does for the BBC's Being Human. -- The episode of the BBC's where The Vampire first meets the down and out and suicidal Werewolf is very impressive and has a lot of subtext. However, in my opinion, the BBC's BH is mostly silly and it would have US audiences laughing at it, not with it. It is very hard to mix comedy and murder.

does the uk ever copy any of our shows.