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- 2015
- TV-14
- Channel 4
- 2015
- TV-14
- Channel 4
Summary The sci-fi show based on the Swedish series "Real Humans" is focused on a universe where the latest gadget to have is a Synth, an android robot. Joe Hawkins (Tom Goodman-Hill) buys a Synth named Anita (Gemma Chan), hoping it will help his relationship with his wife Laura (Katherine Parkinson), who is skeptical.
- 2015
- TV-14
- Channel 4
- 2015
- TV-14
- Channel 4
Humans
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 14, 2015
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7.8
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Summary The sci-fi show based on the Swedish series "Real Humans" is focused on a universe where the latest gadget to have is a Synth, an android robot. Joe Hawkins (Tom Goodman-Hill) buys a Synth named Anita (Gemma Chan), hoping it will help his relationship with his wife Laura (Katherine Parkinson), who is skeptical.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
76
87% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The lines between human and artificial intelligence and empathy (or lack thereof) blur in fascinating and often devastating ways. [13-26 Feb 2017, p.19]
Humans has delivered a second season that demonstrates a full, imaginative expansion of its narrative.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 250 User Ratings
7.8
80% Positive
201 Ratings
201 Ratings
12% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 250 User Ratings
7.8
80% Positive
201 Ratings
201 Ratings
12% Mixed
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
8% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
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The Synths start to act in unexpected ways, and several ominous developments warn us that artificial intelligence must be controlled and directed. What stays with us about Humans, though, are the reminders of all the little ways things will change once we hand part of our lives over to robots.
Like the dystopian British anthology Black Mirror, Humans is a sci-fi premise smartly reimagined for our own age of tech outsourcing.
This main narrative of Humans, which is based on a Swedish series and written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, is solid if somewhat familiar; the truth and beauty of the series lies in the various B plots.
Humans does have that pleasingly antiseptic feeling of euro-cool about it (think of how the Benedict Cumberbatch “Sherlock” series looks, or BBC America’s “Orphan Black”), which can sometimes lure viewers into the belief that they’re watching something classy and sophisticated, when really they’re just snacking on the TV equivalent of rice cakes.
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Initial Release Date: Jun 14, 2015
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Bafta TV Craft
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 3 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Nominations
