Here’s a cool new word I learned this week – so cool in fact that my spell-check refuses to acknowledge it exists: apophenia. It’s the tendency to see patterns in seemingly random data. And maybe I’m suffering from apophenia, but it feels like every week Humans is examining consciousness from different angles. Season 2’s opener was … >
With the Elster software spreading like a virus, Humans starts to explore the idea that acquired consciousness doesn’t automatically mean instantly acquired intelligence. For instance, my 10 month old nephew possesses a consciousness, and he keeps smushing broccoli into the carpet and repeatedly forgets that he’s scared of Mr. Pontipine’s moustache on In The Night … >
Last year, in our review of the spectacular finale to Season 1, we promised that ‘wherever Humans Season 2 is going next, we’re eager to follow’. Well, pack a bag and grab your passport. The second season of Humans is here and it’s going global, hitting all the glamorous locations on the map. Berlin! San Francisco! Bolivia! Nottingham! … >
Channel 4 has released new details about what’s coming up in the next season of Humans. The sci-fi drama’s second season began filming in April, with Gemma Chan, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Emily Berrington, Will Tudor, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Neil Maskell and Ruth Bradley all reprising their roles from last year’s Season 1. Buy Season 1 on … >
Channel 4 has announced several additions to the cast of Humans for the second season, including Carrie-Anne Moss. The American actress, recently seen in Netflix series Marvel’s Jessica Jones, will be joined by Sam Palladio (Nashville), Marshall Allman (True Blood), Sonya Cassidy (The Paradise) and Letitia Wright (Banana). The second season of Humans began filming last week, with Gemma … >
Off the back of three terrific, exciting episodes, Jessica Jones slows down a little for a final set of episodes that generally bring things to a satisfying conclusion. Most Netflix shows with a thirteen episode run tend to lack enough story to fill all 13, leading to a fair bit of padding in the later … >
Netflix’s first season of Daredevil was notorious for peaking somewhere in the middle, with a run of a few episodes with an unerring focus and blistering sense of tension and pace. Jessica Jones has patiently taken longer to reach its peak, opting for a more sustainable pace – but it certainly reaches it with these … >
Episodes 2-4 of Jessica Jones indicated that this was a show that’s confident to move at its own pace, evenly doling out plot twists across the season in a strategy of delayed gratification. The next batch of three episodes sees more groundwork laid for the inevitable explosion, before delving into some thrilling pay-off on all … >
Jessica Jones mad a promising, dynamic start with ‘AKA Ladies Night’, a premiere bursting with genuine potential for the subsequent twelve episodes. Do the next three episodes deliver? There’s a few, to-be-expected variations in quality, but the three episodes do a solid job of refuting the possibility that Jessica Jones could be a one-hit wonder. … >
Netflix has released a brand new clip from Marvel’s Jessica Jones featuring David Tennant as Kilgrave (aka Purple Man). Starring Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Netflix’s upcoming original series will premiere in all territories where Netflix is available at 8:01am GMT this Friday. Marvel’s Jessica Jones is the second of four live action adventure series, … >