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?
Sorry to see this program cancelled. Actors and story line were very good.
Please bring this show back!!!! I’m so bummed now. It was completely unique!
I loved this show! I hate that it has been cancelled. There is very little TV that I watch, but when it was time for Almost Human, I made sure I was sitting in front of my television. Seriously, FOX?! What were you thinking?!
I’m thinking that FOX is afraid of going toe to toe with CBS. Almost Human could definately peel off viewers from the decades long, stale CSI’s, and NCIS’s. Besides the Sunday night animation lineup, what other reason is there to watch FOX? FOX seems to cancel good shows for other crappy stuff. Bring back Almost Human!!!
My favorite show of last season by far. Storyline and characters excellent.
Why is fox always dropping shows that have potential. Me and my wife don’t always agree on what to watch, but this show was the exception.
Why…why…why..it was one of most enjoyable shows I have seen for awhile….actors great…story line great….well balanced…just enjoyed watching ….had a lot of potential for continuing story …some show lose the original story in the writers enthusiasm for having a winning show…..I lose interest in some shows after season 2 or 3 …depending how far off the writers have gotten…..but this show was a enjoyment to watch….
Yes! Bring it back. Too many zombies, vampires, and detective, and attorney series’s. No androids, or robot series.
Bring Back, love the show …
**** yeah! Bring it back! I loved it! Who is the stupid bugger that decided to cancel it?
Bring it back, please. So little out there to enjoy.
So sad to read this. I was looking to see when the new season would start, to no avail. I much prefered this show to Extant which is a waste of effort.
My mother and I often record shows we like when we are busy and separate. When we have the time to come together and watch tv, you bet your bottom Almost Human was one of these shows. We were wondering why there weren’t anymore to find out it was CANCELED!!! Canceled! If there was a show to fight for it would be Almost Humam! Please bring it back!
Bring it back. It was great!
BRING IT BACK!!! Loved this show.