Being Human

About the Show

Being Human is a comedy-drama series about three twenty-something housemates trying to live normal lives, despite struggling with unusual afflictions - one is a werewolf, one is a vampire and the other is a ghost. They face a human threat in the form of the mysterious Professor Jaggat and the cold-hearted Kemp. Jaggat and Kemp are fundamentalist Christians who have discovered the existence of vampires, werewolves and ghosts - and are determined to destroy them or carry out brutal experiments upon them. They believe that vampires are the Devil incarnate and must be destroyed; that werewolves contain an evil gene that can be removed by violent scientific experiments; and that ghosts must be forced over to the other side whether they like it or not.

Nina Pickering

Nina Pickering is a senior staff nurse at the hospital in which Mitchell and George work, with a fiery and strong manner that can be intimidating.

She initially views George as a bumbling, arrogant fool, but falls for him later after seeing his more caring side with the patients.

When they start going out, Nina reveals burn scarring over a large portion of her stomach.

While Nina and George eventually fall in love, George struggles with having another person in his life he can potentially hurt and tries to distance himself several times. However, their fates become entwined permanently in the series 1 finale, when George inadvertently scratches Nina during a transformation, passing the werewolf curse onto her as well. She and George go through tough times during the first episode in season 2, which concludes with Nina revealing her scratch marks to George and that she is now a werewolf as well, during an argument.

In episode 2 of the second series, Nina and George try to make things work: however, Nina leaves George upon discovering that he helped a vampire who killed his own lover escape the country, and is contacted by the mysterious Kemp.