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Review (with Spoilers)

Topic 1: Things Are Different Now (Renee, Toby, and Dr. Athena)

-Renee seems settled in being human again, and now even allows herself to laugh when Toby is being cute or funny.

-V decides to no longer be some form of Dr. Athena's daughter and leaves her to, for a lack of a better term, discover who she is. Leaving Dr. Athena no reason to continue her work even if Milo is a bit upset by her leaving.

Commentary

I do really hope Renee, Renie, or however you spell her name, comes back next season. Sophie's plot dealing with imitating synths isn't resolved and seeing Renee come out of it gives you hope. Also, being that she is the only non-synth Black person and gives Toby relevance, those are two more reasons for her to stick around.

Switching to Dr. Athena, much less Milo, honestly I hope they don't come back. To me, the whole V plot, with her suddenly deciding she no longer is or wants to be, Dr. Athena's daughter should have been building since at least halfway through the season. Yet, instead, it happens in the season finale almost like someone realized how bad of an idea the whole Dr. Athena plot was so they just wanted to quickly scrap her so the show could move on.

Topic 2: Welcome To The New Age (Hester, Leo, Laura, Niska, and Karen)

-With Hester threatening Laura's life, she uses her as leverage for a face to face with Leo. Someone who she, technically, kills by stabbing him in his synthetic brain. Soon after, using the chip that Quilo systems put in them, Mia sacrifices herself to take out Hester. Following that, Niska shows up, asks Mattie to upload the consciousness program which would make all synths conscious and she, to save Mia, does so. Hester is also saved, but then Niska kills her.

-When that happens, Karen, who is ready to commit suicide since Pete is dead, watches as Sam awakens and realizes what she is trying to have him do with her and he freaks out. Leading to, with him conscious, and her having a connection to him, her deciding to live for his sakes.

Commentary

Let's just begin with being happy Niska killed Hester. She, to some, was the villain of the season, but I honestly think she is just an underwhelming and underdeveloped character. To me, she was like a rough draft of Niska they sadly tried to evolve into a full-fledged character. Making Niska killing her all the more appropriate for I think it really sets the tone for us being in a new age. No more of the nonsense of this season for now the show has no need for crappy villains, or pseudo-villains, like Hester. I think, to a certain degree, we might return to what season 1 presented. The complications of being a conscious synth and how unsafe it is to be so.

For example, story lines like the one Odi had I feel maybe explored a bit deeper. Maybe we may have a new Hester, but with a bit more nuance, a bit more depth, and all the conversations Hester had with Laura in this episode, that would have maybe had her evolve into a new Niska, won't be had at the end. On top of that, so comes the general synth. Not the ones like Odi who are overwhelmed with consciousness nor the ones like Hester who decide to dedicate their life to revenge. I'm talking those like Mia who perhaps love their owner and are dealing with the complications of maybe it not being reciprocal. Maybe kids like Sophie not understanding why their best friend is now leaving them and maybe a synth, like Mia seemed to want to in season 1, kidnapping the kid for they feel an attachment to them. Those among a slew of possibilities which I think may bring this show back to its glory days.

For, honestly, I think the only villain this show needs is human emotions.

Oh, and before I forget, I really hope to see more of Karen and Sam. His awakening, right before they drove into a river, strangely hit hard. Though, alongside him, you have to wonder what may happen to all the other synth children? Especially the ones who, like Sam, are now unaccounted for? I don't know about you, but I can picture a murderous child synth or something crazy like that. I don't necessarily want it but, if handled right, I think that would make a better psycho villain than anything we saw out of Hester.

Perhaps not the best finale, but the final few minutes set the pace for what could be an explosive Season 3 should the show return.

The synths will truly be unleashed for the first time and humans will struggle mightily to adapt and contain it.

I just didn't invest too much in the new characters introduced in Season 2, so their struggles, highs and lows did not really interest me that much.

Enjoyable overall, but until the end kind of underwhelming.

When Mattie decided to change the world, she killed anyone that was flying on an airplane piloted by a synth. The audience was shown the ambulance that barely slid off the road because it miraculously was almost at it's destination, but what about all of the other ones? What about the ambulances that had critical patients in the back, but the driver decided he wanted to go look at the birds? I know that it was supposed to represent their freedom, and it was supposed to be beautiful, but if you think about it for a moment, it is an incredibly selfish and dangerous thing to do. And ... it was to save one person? Two, technically, but since there was no way the other was going to be allowed to live, so countless human lives were just endangered in a panicked attempt to protect Mia.

And the show is called Humans?

MIA, and LEO are back at Max's hideout. Laura and Joe see the report of what happened at Qualia LAB on the news. Voss is at Pete's house, just staring off the balcony.

+1 Star for the opening sequence, a lot going on here

Voss wakes up realizing Sam plugged her in when she ran out of power. Laura is going trhough old family photos. Oh yeah Joe wants the family to move to a synth FREE community. Oh that's when HESTER shows up!!! Haha, Hester introduces herself as MOLLY.

bACK AT THE LAB, morrow has a last conversation with V, or Jenny. Her daughter's consciousness, takes its leave of Morrow.

+1 Star I gotta admit that was a touching moment.

Laura talks to Mattie, and finds out that this Molly is really Hester, and Hester is a killer. And Milo is told that a large amount of data just transferered out of his lab...and he confronts Morrow about where it went. Morrow tells him she doesn't know. Morrow Leaves Qualia, while reflecting on past moments spent with Jenny, who is now free roaming who knows where on the interweb.

Hester calls Mattie, tells her that Leo and them all need to show up or she's going to kill Mattie's parents. When they talk about getting to Hester via her chip implant, I thought they all dug these chips out of themselves so they couldn't be tracked or shut down with these chip functions. Laura tries to talk Hester down sort of, but Hester is not having it and tells Laura to shut up or die. I sure do like Hester.

Voss tells Sam that Pete is dead, like her. Leo goes into the Hawkins residence, and confronts Hester. Leo apologizes to Hester for failing her. Is this enough to save Laura??? Hester stabs LEO in the neck. Mia runs in and Hester takes Laura as a shield again. Leo is bleeding out. Mia grabs Leo's phone, and starts a code that shuts down both Mia and Hester. Will Leo bleed out here???? Enter Niska now. Oh the code just affected those with chips??? So to save Mia ....Mattie sends out the CODE to the whole world. All synths have now been made conscious. And NISKA, kills Hester?? Now wait a minute how is it that Niska was any stronger or more powerful than Hester?? I call BS!!!

-1 Star for Niska for some reason being able to overpower Hester

LOL....some great scenes of what synths do around the WORLD as they become CONSCIOUS. Very funny.

+1 Star for Synth Consciousness!!!

So really... a decent end to the Season but .... imagine the confusion and chaos would be caused by millions of possible synths Worldwide becoming self aware suddenly?? I imagine there would be a lot, a LOT, of problems.

Overall for the Season 2 finale though, 7/10 And I will certainly miss HESTER!!