Set in the future, every police officer now has to partner with a synthetic android, including Karl Urban’s John Kennix in Fox’ new sci-fi show – Almost Human. We have the review to Almost Human episode 1 right here.
Spoilers up ahead.
Name: Almost Human
Studio: Bad Robot Productions
Release Date: 17/11/2013
Almost Human starts off well by giving the buddy-cop genre a futuristic kick up the ass.
Fox has a new heavyweight television series that looks like it could already be essential viewing after only one episode. Set in a dystopian future (2048 to be exact) where crime has increased by 400% and police are now using synthetic androids to work alongside human officer; Detective John Kennix (Karl Urban) is closing in on a gang when he is suddenly surrounded. He attempts to take his dying fellow officer out of the line of fire, when he is suddenly hit with some kind of futuristic sticky bomb that blows his legs off. Another bomb is soon added to the mix leaving Kennix in a 17-month coma.
We then skip ahead and it has been two years since the incident. Kennix is haunted by what happened and is making personal investigations into who was responsible, when he is called back to the force by his superior (Lili Taylor) and put with a synthetic. It doesn’t last long as Kennick, sick of the androids questions, pushes him out of a moving vehicle.
He is soon given an older model called Dorian (Michael Ealy). Dorian, unlike the new models, was built to have feelings like a human and isn’t as “by the book” as his successors.
Together they start to hunt down the gang known as the Insyndicate, but the gang themselves are starting to make moves themselves and have started to attack the police in broad daylight.
Overall thoughts:
Almost Human starts off well by giving the buddy-cop genre a futuristic kick up the ass. By combining elements of Minority Report along with the likes of a good police drama, we have a new series that we a certainly going to look forward to each week.
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