The Fall actor Colin Morgan has revealed that he sees his new drama Humans as more like a “gritty drama” than sci-fi.

Channel 4’s new eight-part series, which began last night, is set in a world with life-like humanoids called ‘Synths’.

> Read our spoiler-free review of Episode 1.

Morgan told Den of Geek: “To me, it’s always felt like a gritty drama. It deals with a big sci-fi issue, that’s undeniable, but it’s about the effect of that on humans. Without being too clichéd about it, it is genuinely more about the humans and the effect of that on them.”

He explained: “It covers every sector of society, the domestic setting with the family, another domestic setting with a retired gentleman, the scientific side of it, the police force, the youth, the workplace, it kind of covers everything in a really unexpected way and that’s what draws you in.”

Discussing the show’s concept, the Merlin star commented: “I think it’s quite terrifying. If you aim to create something that services your needs in that respect and if you also enable it in some way to be able to develop itself and to evolve, that’s quite worrying. It’s pretty arrogant for humans to assume as well that to endow something with qualities, that that’s the best thing for these things. That obviously our way is the way this thing should act.”

He added: “If you create something, do you then give it the ability to be the way it wants to be or do you limit it with human traits and limitations? […] All of us right now have a form of technology on our body. We are essentially becoming a little bit closer to Cyborgs in that respect.”

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Humans continues at 9pm on Sunday night on Channel 4.

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