Has Being Human Passed Its Peak?

The first series of Being Human was fresh and funny and sad and scary. Even the pilot.

The second series of Being Human upped the stakes with greater peril and a bit more horror.

The third series of Being Human, so far (3 episodes in), seems to have lost the wittiness and the emotional core. Now the characters are becoming caricatures of themselves: Mitchell is mopey and angsty, Annie is irritating and George's wittiness seems nullified by Nina. Instead of the almost mundane dealings of a strange household we now have larger Vampire plots and dealings with the afterlife. The central enjoyment of the odd household is getting lost in the trappings of Horror genre.

I've never been a big fan of Horror, but I liked the human emotion of Being Human. I liked the sad life of a Vampire despite its cliché, somehow the handling in Being Human made it feel real. But now there seems the temptation to throw the genre sink at it. It's like taking great Science Fiction, with characters at its core, and throwing more aliens at it. Blood! Death! Cage fights! Old vampires! Zombies! Unnecessary.

It's a shame. I hope it picks up. I hope it remembers what made it brilliant.