Hope you have read the storyline.
Humans is an English remake of the Swedish show Real humans.
This is a review after finishing the first season (I have also seen the Swedish version).
This show is similar to Bladerunner. It focuses on the same issues but here they have made is simpler and since its a long running TV show all the story lines are dealt with clearly (maybe a little too much).
Its recommended to first watch the Swedish version and then come back to this. This is a 3 season show, but the Swedish one was cut after 2, so we need to follow this one too to get the ending. Here in this English version (just like what they did with Star Wars in 2015), they have tweaked and packaged it for ratings. They replaced the normal looking house maid robot (the heroine) with a tall super model and of course the obligatory sex scandal. Since the original did not make much money, I think I understand.
There are several story lines happening simultaneously: The family who has just bought their first android (this is the setting that the English version concentrates on the most to make it look more like a normal soap so as to attract all demographics), and how each person sees it in a different way.
Then there is the androids who have been 'liberated'. These are the androids who have free will. Just like with humans, even among these androids there are the androids that are selfish and those that have morality. And when androids become selfish, they can be quite deadly (these issues are dealt with more in the Swedish version). There are also differences in the way that even a free android thinks. They are like how we will be be if we were to have a full computer inside our brain, so they have our regular intelligence and they can do things like learn a language in a few seconds (like the helicopter flying lesson in Matrix), have super human strength, super fast repair of damages, upgradability of 'talents' with just addons and software changes, they don't age, etc.
In essence, these 'liberated' androids are far superior to humans. And the code that was used to do this, if allowed to get into all androids, could make us humans redundant. So there is a whole govt machinery working against these liberated androids. So we follow the police line too.
The liberated androids have also got split up and they are in constant danger. Any android out on the street needs a master, so these master less droids have a real hard time fending for themselves. And its here that we see the inhuman side of androids.
Then there is one liberated droid who has the ultimate aim of reaching a situation where bots can rule. This is the most dangerous bot, because it manipulates both the bots and the humans indiscriminately.
Then of course the many human-bot love relations and sex. How a bot can be more satisfying because we can be selfish and keep taking and not have to give back. And when we are not satisfied with even that, we try to get more and how that sort of backfires. So it doesn't matter in the end, if it was bot or human, the greedy humans get into realation-ship trouble no matter what but the bot gets blamed.
Breakage of normal human-human relations because of bots.
The English version is simpler. The Swedish version follows so many story lines in detail that its more complex.
One thing I really liked about this show is that most things don't work out the way the characters are anticipated (a lot like in real life). So there is a strange sort of unpredictability in the show. Also a lot of people get killed. Normally I don't like this, but here its somehow acceptable.
My end feeling - Its not exciting like say Fringe, but its a fulfilling watch. And I think the Swedish version is already a sort of classic - just like how we use Bladerunner of Matrix to explain scifi points we might be using this show too in the future.
Definitely recommended for people who love scifi.
Thank you for reading. Cheers........
Humans is an English remake of the Swedish show Real humans.
This is a review after finishing the first season (I have also seen the Swedish version).
This show is similar to Bladerunner. It focuses on the same issues but here they have made is simpler and since its a long running TV show all the story lines are dealt with clearly (maybe a little too much).
Its recommended to first watch the Swedish version and then come back to this. This is a 3 season show, but the Swedish one was cut after 2, so we need to follow this one too to get the ending. Here in this English version (just like what they did with Star Wars in 2015), they have tweaked and packaged it for ratings. They replaced the normal looking house maid robot (the heroine) with a tall super model and of course the obligatory sex scandal. Since the original did not make much money, I think I understand.
There are several story lines happening simultaneously: The family who has just bought their first android (this is the setting that the English version concentrates on the most to make it look more like a normal soap so as to attract all demographics), and how each person sees it in a different way.
Then there is the androids who have been 'liberated'. These are the androids who have free will. Just like with humans, even among these androids there are the androids that are selfish and those that have morality. And when androids become selfish, they can be quite deadly (these issues are dealt with more in the Swedish version). There are also differences in the way that even a free android thinks. They are like how we will be be if we were to have a full computer inside our brain, so they have our regular intelligence and they can do things like learn a language in a few seconds (like the helicopter flying lesson in Matrix), have super human strength, super fast repair of damages, upgradability of 'talents' with just addons and software changes, they don't age, etc.
In essence, these 'liberated' androids are far superior to humans. And the code that was used to do this, if allowed to get into all androids, could make us humans redundant. So there is a whole govt machinery working against these liberated androids. So we follow the police line too.
The liberated androids have also got split up and they are in constant danger. Any android out on the street needs a master, so these master less droids have a real hard time fending for themselves. And its here that we see the inhuman side of androids.
Then there is one liberated droid who has the ultimate aim of reaching a situation where bots can rule. This is the most dangerous bot, because it manipulates both the bots and the humans indiscriminately.
Then of course the many human-bot love relations and sex. How a bot can be more satisfying because we can be selfish and keep taking and not have to give back. And when we are not satisfied with even that, we try to get more and how that sort of backfires. So it doesn't matter in the end, if it was bot or human, the greedy humans get into realation-ship trouble no matter what but the bot gets blamed.
Breakage of normal human-human relations because of bots.
The English version is simpler. The Swedish version follows so many story lines in detail that its more complex.
One thing I really liked about this show is that most things don't work out the way the characters are anticipated (a lot like in real life). So there is a strange sort of unpredictability in the show. Also a lot of people get killed. Normally I don't like this, but here its somehow acceptable.
My end feeling - Its not exciting like say Fringe, but its a fulfilling watch. And I think the Swedish version is already a sort of classic - just like how we use Bladerunner of Matrix to explain scifi points we might be using this show too in the future.
Definitely recommended for people who love scifi.
Thank you for reading. Cheers........