Humans: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

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Is the Humans series worth watching? ›

It's good, solid (even thought-provoking) sf entertainment; much better than most of the blockbuster fare you'll find at the movie theater. The differences between the syths, whether between individual models or series lines suggests the possibility of inter-synth conflict and may prove to be Humans' masterstroke.

After David committed suicide, Fred was on the run with his family, but was taken by a group of assailants along with Mia and Niska. He was eventually sold to Leaf Ridge Farms Foods Limited with his memories intact.

Mia occasionally pushes through the Anita persona, revealing parts of her personality to the Hawkins family. After Mia reveals her persona to Laura and Mattie, Mattie brings Leo to the Hawkins' house where he frees her from the Anita persona.

Joe Hawkins decides to buy a Synth to help out at home, but his wife, Laura, feels uncomfortable around the humanoid. Elsewhere a widower tries to fix his malfunctioning Synth, Odi, who holds some precious memories of his late wife.

The second season of AMC's Humans builds on the sci-fi world of humans and AI established in its first, exploring ideas, conflicts and their consequences. For all its sci-fi and speculative dimensions, Humans is both a first-rate thriller and a moral education. It makes you think.

Humans series three came to a devastating end on Thursday night – brutally killing off one of its major characters and delivering a game-changing revelation.

I'm being snarky, but the moment the two share is genuinely touching and complex. Laura tells her daughter that Tom was her brother and that he died when he was 5-years-old. Laura was 11 and was meant to be watching him, but was talking to a neighbor when Tom got hit by a car.

Clearly, Mia's personality was already attempting to reassert itself at this stage, instilling a strong mothering instinct in Anita. Mia had been Leo's surrogate mother after all - so in all likelihood, 'Anita' was taking Sophie out to look at the moon, just as she'd done with Leo when he was a child.

Ruth Bradley as Karen Voss, a detective inspector and the partner of Detective Sergeant Pete Drummond. Those around her have not discovered that she is a conscious synth and was created by David Elster to replace his deceased wife, Beatrice.

But while the nation was mourning the loss of Mia, Humans wasn't done delivering the game-changing twists as the final scenes of the episode saw Mattie (Lucy Carless) discover she was carrying a human/Synth hybrid child after Niska (Emily Berrington) evolved into a higher being and revealed to Mattie that her baby will ...

What happened to Leo in Humans? ›

His synth components were so damaged after the stabbing that they had to be removed, essentially making him fully human again. Leo eventually wakes up from his coma, Mattie and Anatole by his side. Seeing Mattie, his face shows happiness towards seeing her.

Plot. Joe Hawkins decides to buy an android called a synth to help take care of household responsibilities for his family, due to his wife Laura's constant work-related absences. He purchases a synth and his young daughter Sophie immediately becomes close friends with it, choosing to call it "Anita".

Critics Reviews

Being Human manages to avoid both the slipperiness of soap opera and the overwrought self-importance of Goth, finding instead a happy normalcy that makes its supernatural elements both more believable and more shocking.

To sum up, Human is an interesting series with a novel subject and unpredictable narrative that is sure to make you binge-watch it. At the same time, with barely a few light moments, it's also very intense and can get morbid at times. While it makes a compelling watch, the faint-hearted may brave it and take it slow.

Parents need to know that Humans is a thought-provoking sci-fi show about human-like robots whose presence is commonplace in a futuristic society. Language, sex, and violence are mild, but young viewers may be unsettled by the constant body-horror imagery: shots of (seemingly) people in unnatural positions,…

Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Only seen the first episode so far but the story is definitely inspired by the swedish original "Äkta människor" and / or the BBC remake "Humans".