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** Also ''Girlfriend In A Coma'' by The Smiths in 1x3 and ''Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife'' and ''Too Sick To Pray'' by Alabama 3 in 1x4.
** Johnny Cash's cover of ''Hurt'' at the end of the first series' Episode 1 is not only a fantastic song choice, it encapsulates the mood and tone of the episode, the characters and the entire series to come.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Cara being [[Driven to Suicide]] by Herrick, her face was genuinely sad.}}
** {{spoiler|After being completely rejected by the Old Ones, Cutler heads to Honolulu Heights to kill Eve, breaking down the door and being burnt horrifically as he didn't receive an invitation. Before he can take this final chance to be a "history maker" by dooming his own species, incidentally saving the world at the same time, Annie stakes him.}}
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Did Regus know about the prophecy twist? That would make him a lot more sinister.
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**** Probably because they send [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|10,000 Vampires]] to wipe out a small handful of humans.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Owen. Murderer, [[Domestic Abuser]], [[Mind Rape|Mind Rapist]]... ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|unreliable landlord]]''
** Also Kemp. [[Dead Little Sister]] notwithstanding, he casually watches as a werewolf dies in the most gory manner imaginable, and persuades his accomplices to carry on with the work. For the unconvinced, his second series finale murdering of the psychic, of Lucy and of Annie in absolutely ice cold blood tipped him head first across the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
** And then there's Herrick, who hasn't been shown as anything less than pure evil. Particularly so, as of [[Wham! Episode|episode 3.7]]; yes he killed MacNair in self defence, but he then proceeded to [[Curb Stomp Battle|slaughter his way through an entire police armed response unit]] and terrorise Nina before brutally stabbing her in the kidney. His stated reason? People would say he'd gotten soft if he let them go.
*** Herrick deserves extra mention for having canonically been a monster before he was even a Vampire. He was turned into a Vampire by Hettie, while he was trying to sell her to a brothel. [[Children Are Innocent|Hettie looks like a ten-year-old.]]
** Despite these examples, due to the nature of the show, it's kind of hard to label anyone a complete monster. It's more [[Black and Gray Morality]].
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: {{spoiler|George's death. They could easily have had George be stuck in werewolf form and chained him up in the basement, providing an impetus to finding out whether or not Eve had any special qualities that could fix the problem and allowing Russell Tovey to be largely absent. It would certainly have allowed the plot to give him a better send off instead of the abrupt end to his storyline which came across as a rather [[Stupid Sacrifice]]}}.
** How is it a stupid sacrifice. He took down an entire club of Vampires, you think Tom could have done that all by himself? Or that the Recorder could have done more than delay the others?
** If he could trick his body into beginning the transformation (and lets not get started on that, what is this, [
*** Most likely, he wanted to change enough that he was physically capable to take on all the vampires in the building, but retain enough humanity so that he wouldn't just target everyone indiscriminantly (like, say, Eve).
* [[Wangst]]: Used for very comical effect over Mitchell and George's disproportionate reaction to the scheduling and missing of the latest episode of ''[[The Real Hustle]]''. Perhaps a [[Take That Us]] by BBC Three?
* [[The Woobie]]: George. Borders on [[Iron Woobie]]. Then there's poor Annie...
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