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Set in suburban London, the story takes place in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a Synth – a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
5 April 1970, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
19 June 1989, Bristol, England, UK
5 July 1966, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
19 May 1931, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
19 November 1968, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
7 June 1969, Dublin, Ireland
2 August 1992
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
31 October 1993, Georgetown, Guyana
June 23, 2015
It's familiar sci-fi territory, of course, but the show tackles it in intriguing style while delivering some suspenseful touches.
June 29, 2015
What stays with us about Humans, though, are the reminders of all the little ways things will change once we hand part of our lives over to robots.
June 29, 2015
Like most good sci-fi, Humans makes sure that the philosophizing doesn't get in the way of the suspense and chills. Anyone who doesn't enjoy those might be a Synth.
May 02, 2017
[An] intriguing, erratic serial that trod the narrow line between the compelling and the silly.
June 29, 2015
There was much good human acting and creepy robot acting. It was great fun seeing grand old ham William Hurt as a solitary codger desperate not to surrender the unreliable robot that stored all his fading memories.
June 29, 2015
It's all pretty gripping stuff -- a bit creepy, a bit spooky and rather smart, and as its storylines begin to overlap, Humans becomes an addictive drama that no intelligent viewer -- real or synthetic -- will want to miss.
June 17, 2015
On the basis of episode one, Humans isn't any old glass of water. It's a tall, iced glass with a lemon wedge and a curly straw. It's the sort of grown-up, thought-provoking, unsettling sci-fi that we've been craving.
June 29, 2015
It's an interesting concept -- as evidenced by the wealth of material already out there -- but for the most part the stories the writers choose to tell are expected.
September 26, 2016
Humans explores... issues with sensitivity and fresh insight, much of which comes from cleverly using an ordinary family as a stand-in for society at large.
