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?
Absolutely Love this show. There is a lot of chemistry between the main actors I will be truly disappointed if the show gets cancelled. This show definitely has a lot of potential to be great if given a chance.
Please keep this show!! It’s the best sci- fi that has come out in the last few years!!
I like this show. It is sure as hell better than most of the clap trap on the air these days. I hope the nimrods at Fox give it a year (or three) more to find it’s fan base.
Love Almost Human
Really enjoyed the como of Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow Monday nights. Hate stupid mindless comedy . Please Fox for once listen to your viewers or you may find yourselves Cancelled !
Love this show. Whole family watches it because it is unique, and funny. Love love it. Please don’t cancel it
If they are going to cancel this series, at least let it run for a number of episodes, until they finally inform us what “The Wall” is and what is it’s purpose.
This is the one show my husband and I watch together! I love it
I love this show. Please don’t cancel it.
Please don,t cancel this show it’s the best new show to come along in quite awhile.
Please continue Almost Human. One of the most entertaining new shows this season.
Please do not cancel Almost Human, its an excellent show.
We love it. Please keep it!!
Keep for another season. Very interesting how John and Dorian really do compliment each other. Love it.
I do enjoy the series and some of the actors that come on are sometimes good. Now with that said, I actually prefer Karl on the big screen. He’s come a long way since Hercules and Xena and I eagerly await his new feature films. I found out that this series has been indeed been canceled and it will be missed. I actually noticed a few slips ‘actors’ some are just saying the words and not feeling it. I know this because I too am an actor, no not famous. There are too many earth bound sci-fi series and this… Read more »