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?
This show was even better then Intelligence which was wrongfully cancelled too. And it was along the same reasons of a network that can’t figure out how to utilize a good show.
This was a good show. It needs to be continued somehow.
GREAT. JUST GREAT…PEOPLE JUST NEED TO BOYCOTT FOX!!! ENOUGH SAID..TO MUCH GURGLE ON TV NOW AND DAYS.. LOOKS TO ME LIKE THIS TIME SLOT, JUST OPENED UP TO PLAY SOME CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES ! FOX BLOWS!
Bring the show back! The only show in years we really look forward to seeing each week. Friday night date night with the PVR will be very hollow now 🙁
Fox you are a bunch of idiots for cancelling this show!
Bring back Almost Human!! The f-in Kardashans are renewed and THIS is canceled??? Are you freaking kidding me?? This is a clever show, and really, who doesn’t want to see Karl Urban every week?
Someone pick up this show!
Fox I can’t believe you cancel a great show, everyone writing bad **** about you for it.
Dumb move. This was a very good show. I could only hope some other network picks it up.
They pulled another Firefly. You’d think Fox Network would have learned from that mistake about cancelling another Science Fiction show. But again, Fox messed with the order of the episodes that were supposed to be shown and then messed with the intro as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be another cult show like Firefly and Fox once again never admitting they made a mistake.
I love this show. Please bring it back!!!
How dare you take off this show! I look foward to watching this every Monday. It’s way better than these stupid reality and competition shows that are taking over TV. BRING THIS SHOW BACK FOX29.
NoOOOo! Don’t cancel it! It was a show that was not only done well with really good acting but we finally had a show with a new story line, new ideas and plot twists I couldn’t guess! Put it back on! Love Kennex and Dorian and the cast. It was the highlight of a dull week.
What were they thinking, I loved this show. Bring it back!!!!
JCR you said it EXACTLY! I really enjoyed the show and was looking forward to a second season. MAYBE ANOTHER NETWORK CAN PICK IT UP – HELLO?!!
My favorite show has been cancelled! Can’t believe it . The actors are all so good , the story and special effects are so cool, probably too expensive to make or something like that. Because it was SO MUCH Fun! Loved the Bots.
I love this show. It is such a shame that it has been cancled. The show had such potential. They were able to deal with some interesting situations and had good writers. The actors were top notch. It’s to bad Fox couldn’t see their way to continuing such a fresh show.