Network: FOX
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: November 17, 2013 — March 3, 2014
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Irby, and Lili Taylor.
TV show description:
This sci-fi police drama takes place 35 years into the future, in the year 2048. It’s a world in which police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
Detective John Kennex (Karl Urban) is a cop who’s survived one of the most catastrophic attacks ever made against the police department. He wakes up after a 17-month coma. He can’t remember much — except that his partner was killed. He’s lost one of his legs and is now outfitted with a highly sophisticated synthetic appendage. He suffers from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD and the “psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.”
John returns to work at the encouragement of his longtime ally, Captain Sandra Maldonado (Lili Taylor). Every cop must now be paired with a robot and, despite his passionate aversion to androids, John is no exception.
He’s partnered with a battle-ready MX-43 model. He abruptly terminates this pairing after the robot discovers incriminating information about him. As a result, technician Rudy Lom (Mackenzie Crook) introduces John to Dorian (Michael Ealy), a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses.
Although these responses were deemed flaws, it’s these “flaws” that John relates to Dorian most — John is part-machine and Dorian is part-human. John and Dorian’s understanding of each other not only complements them, it connects them.
As he adjusts to working with his new partner, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues, like the sharp and insightful human intelligence analyst Detective Valerie Stahl (Minka Kelly) and Detective Richard Paul (Michael Irby), a distrustful man who doesn’t welcome John back with open arms.
Episode #13 – Straw Man
Kennex and Dorian revisit the past when a string of murders are similar to those committed by a serial killer who was put in jail by Kennex’s father. Dorian gets his first performance review after being reactivated.
First aired: March 3, 2014.
What do you think? Do you like the Almost Human TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for another season?
I enjoyed this show. I was recording it, but due to a thunderstorm and power outage, I missed one episode. I guess I’ll never get to see it now.
Thanks, Fox. Any time I get caught up in a science fiction program on one of the major networks, they cancel it. I keep saying I’m going to quit watching science fiction on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and CW. I suppose now would be a good time to do what I’ve been saying.
Love Love Loved this show. Don’t cancel it.. Big mistake!!
Best new show on television. Please don’t leave us hanging…
Please please please keep Almost human. I really like the character development and the storyline so far. A very well done sci-fi show.
This is a really good show with potential to be a great show.
It works well, both as a police procedural and as a science fiction program, which is very unusual.
It is the only Fox program that I watch. I hope that it continues.
I really enjoy this show and hope it continues.
Keep it going. It’s one of the best sci-fi shows on today.
Keep going , my family love it
Pls continue
I completely enjoy Almost Human. Keep it going!!!
The show is fun to watch and inventive. Please continue to make good shows like this.
This series should continue. I watch very few stations other than HBO, but this was one of the best on TV, never miss it. Just when it gets good and gets you hooked, you cancel it. Very frustrating as TV is these days.
I hope it doesn’t get cancelled, I really love this show and Karl Urban!.
For the first time in a long run I finally found a show worth watching. I am sick of all those
silly comedy programs that they have on. This show is great and I pray it does not get
cancelled
Keep Almost Human it’s great.