The finale of a show you love… It’s a bit like having your birthday on a Sunday (all the more so if that show actually airs on a Sunday): all that excitement, attention, and then tomorrow it’s over and – boo, work, chores, The One Show – everything plummets back to normal again and all … >
Channel 4 has announced the commission of a second season of Humans. The new sci-fi drama, which began last month, is set in a world with life-like humanoids called ‘Synths’ and the first season concludes at 9pm this Sunday on Channel 4. > Order Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Filming on eight new episodes … >
Humans is Channel 4’s new thriller from the makers of Utopia and Broadchurch. Based on the hit Swedish drama Real Humans, the eight-part series is written by British duo Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks). > Like Humans on Facebook for all the latest news on the show. Katherine Parkinson (In the Club), William Hurt … >
It’s taken me until the penultimate episode of Channel 4’s superlative Sunday sci-fi drama to realise something. Have you noticed how big the Hawkins family kitchen is? It’s massive. A wipe-down hangar for cooking and conversation. A space that’s fortuitously big enough for kitchen sink dramas, the impromptu Synth triage of Max, and an awkward … >
The writers of Channel 4’s Humans have revealed that they have plans for a second season and beyond. The new sci-fi drama, which began last month, is set in a world with life-like humanoids called ‘Synths’. Asked about their hopes for the future of Humans, Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley told Den of Geek: “Six … >
With its reunions, partings, and moving backstory, Episode 6 of Humans is basically a national televised Voight-Kampff test for viewers of Channel 4. If you got through the whole hour without any of the standard human emotions trickling across your brain and toward your face then you shouldn’t be reading this. You should be plugged … >
Smart, glossy, engaging (and that’s just the cast), Humans is great drama, but there are a lot of questions still to be answered, and Episode 5 isn’t shy about asking a few more. So this review may be bit question-mark heavy, if that’s alright? See, I’ve started already. The most nagging question might be ‘What … >
With its big sci-fi concepts, questions of consciousness, and sexy robots, Humans can invariably bring out the Sunday night philosopher in you. Especially when you ponder age-old Asimovian questions such as ‘where is the line that separates AI from human consciousness?’ And, at what point do you mark the definition between £20,000 electro-sex-doll and someone … >
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in the news earlier this week, with his prediction that in the future robots would, rather than kill us with the laser eyes and chainsaw hands, keep us as pets, because we’d be so helpless and adorable. Not as adorable as little Sophie ‘Potato’ Hawkins mind you. But does he … >
Last week’s opening episode of Humans was watched by over 4 million viewers (all of them properly human, I’m sure), making it Channel 4’s highest-rated drama in over a decade. Couple that with Gemma Chan’s hint that there’s scope for a second season, and you may as well get used to Synths being around you … >