The first season of Channel 4’s new sci-fi drama Humans is over.
So without further ado, commence the installation of this list into your brain with our Top 10 moments (in no particular order)…
George’s death
I loved Dr. Millican. There was always something terminal about him; something so melancholy and weary that he couldn’t possibly keep up with a world that he had helped create. William Hurt communicated the tragedy of him so well that it was difficult not to spill empathy from your body every time he appeared on screen.
His death by Karen’s hand is as sad as it is inevitable. The tragedy’s compounded by his loveable broken Synth Odi, standing over his dying body and burbling out memory fragments about George’s wife being in ‘the next room’. It’s a phrase which you can apply as much spiritual meaning to as you wish, but it’s beautiful anyway.
Leo’s wired
Pulling the rug out from our limited understanding of Humans‘ world and the characters within it (it was only Episode 2 after all), the reveal that Leo was more than human would lead to even bigger questions about just what he was, and some emotional answers about ‘why’ he was.
Kudos to Colin Morgan; whatever stage of discovery we were at, he always made Leo feel like a character rather than a handsome mystery on legs.
‘Stick it up yer bollocks!’
Pete tells a Synth to ‘Stick it up yer bollocks!’. I could blabber on about how his outburst represents a jaded copper’s anger and impotence in both his professional and home life, but that’d be so much twaddle.
Let’s just enjoy what may be the best insult of 2015. And if you don’t like it, then you know where you can stick it… Erm, in the comments section.
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