The only thing more shocking than Being Human’s third season finale was the news that trickled out since it aired.
Before we’d had a chance to (manfully) wipe the (even manlier) tears caused by Mitchell’s tragic death-cum-vampiricide, Russell Tovey (George) and Sinead Keenan (Nina) announced they too had up and quit.

So, with three of your four main characters either gone Being Human Season 4 Box Set on the way out, and only one original cast member remaining, where does Being Human go from here? Eve of the War packed more into its 57 minutes than most British dramas manage in 57 episodes. Its futuristic 2037-set prelude – in which a small band of resistance fighters struggled to survive in a world overrun by vampires – set the bewildering scene, and things only became more breathless from there.

It may have only been a manner of weeks since George staked Mitchell and laid his claim to taking on the vampire bigwigs, but a lot had changed. Mainstay Nina and Big Bad in the making Wyndham had both Terra Nova Season 1 Box Set murdered off-camera, leaving Annie distraught, desolute George a single parent manically driven to protect his as-yet-unnamed baby, and

Tom (you remember, the werewolf gypsy with the Sam the Eagle eyebrows) having firmly established himself as a cafe serving boy by day and an ass-kicking vampire-vanquishing vigilante (Fluffy the Vampire Slayer?) by night. And that’s all before we even get started on an entirely new parallel and self-contained plot introducing new vamp on the scene Hal, the new NEW Big Bads (including the amusingly dry, progressive-thinking vampire Cutler), and the tantalising tease that George and Nina’s baby is ‘The Chosen One’ and the vampire race’s very own gurgling, incontinent and utterly adorable Armageddon in the making.

Still, if Misfits taught us anything, it’s that saying goodbye to your breakout talent isn’t enough to derail British drama that’s original, innovative and clever enough Smash Season 1 Box Set creatively roll with the punches.

Considering its Season Four opener pulled off a plot that was equal parts Terminator, Twilight and Buffy, introduced a whole new mythology and main cast, and STILL managed to be both coherent and captivating, it has the potential to pull off the resurrection its original characters, sadly, never will.