Watching the episodes back to back, things move far too quickly. Season one feels like they barely touched on characters arcs before they came to their conclusion. For example, I could swear Karen's reveal was much further into the show, not the sixth episode of the first season!

So I finally got around this watching this show after writing it off for a long time. Firstly, this was a good show and I really enjoyed it - season one was alright, the second and third seasons really ramped things up but also managed to stay relatively grounded.

Season 4, I think, was going to leave that behind and was gearing up to be a mess of silly storylines.

I’m someone who’s actually been really interested in consciousness and artificial intelligence for a long time. Despite Hollywood movies and modern concerns about AI, the idea of actual consciousness arising from AI is pure science fiction, and the idea of being able to write consciousness with code even more so. But it’s an accepted trope so I’m more than willing to suspend disbelief for it.

Where that suspension started to get harder for me was with the whole synth blood thing. So, Leo gets some synth blood in him and it apparently has incredible healing powers and makes him stronger than ever and just no one ever realised that synth blood has these properties? And it actually… rewrites his DNA? And makes him… um… genetically synth somehow…? Enough that his baby will be half synth… what?

Okay, I’d be willing to accept that synth blood has some biological component, but that is several bridges too far and deep into “we’re out of ideas” territory. But we know that Synth blood is not biological, not to any meaningful degree.

When Max gets a blood transfusion from Niska they dilute her blood with saline solution. If you did this with biological blood, it would cause the cells to burst. It would work if synth blood’s main purpose was electrical conductivity because saline is an effective conductor. So synth blood is probably a non-biological, industrial chemical meant to carry electricity around their bodies. I can accept that it might be non-toxic to a human but rewriting DNA to make someone synthetic… sorry, getting silly now.

And all this leads to Niska becoming Synth god and Mattie being pregnant with Synth Jesus… meanwhile, apart from Sam, the Seraph go completely unmentioned and forgotten, the whole thing with Renie and the Synthies goes nowhere, affects nothing and is never mentioned again… getting messy, getting silly.

So yeah, I loved this show but I’m glad it ended while I still loved it because I think Season 4 was going to mishmash, crap shoot of bizarre storylines that the writers wouldn’t know what to do with. If Season 4 had happened, I think the show would have gotten canned anyway and wouldn’t be remembered with such fondness, so I’m glad it stopped when it did, even if it means we never got a proper ending.

I often wondered if the writers of Humans, Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent, had more seasons scripted, and if so, I wondered what would have happened in Season 4. So-o-o, fans of this British TV series, if it were up to you, how would the story continue from Season 3's cliffhanger?

I just started season 1 and they’re all terrible in their own shitty way.

Dad: Doesn’t get it from the wife so basically wants a sexbot which might as well be a maid too I guess.

Mum: self conscious about being secondary to a machine so has to latch onto any ammo she gets against it because saying the robot that saved your son’s life is the problem instead of admitting how much of shitty parent you are is much easier.

Son: in love with a robot of all things because that’s really going to pan out fine.

Older daughter: typical bs angsty attitude that’s realistically crying for attention.

Younger daughter: spoiled brat

In fact I think all the humans are terrible, the dc guy projecting his insecurities of his shitty emotionally cheating wife on every bot he sees.
The stubborn old man with a bot that can barely remember the memories he’s so desperately trying to latch onto yet keeps reminding said bot of the memories instead, making the entire point pointless.

Even the guy who’s going around with a bunch of rouge bots is terrible because he only cares about getting Anita back (who can do better).

Leaves that blonde bot in that sex dungeon then she saves herself and instead of being sympathetic and saying how shitty it was for him to force her to do that, gets defensive and basically threatens her she’s going to die without him if she goes on her own.

And yeah she probably took it too far by killing but i’d rather take my chances then to stick around with an emotionally abusive prick who’s trying to control me, the entire point was to be free not switch masters…

Sorry for the rant, there’s people are irritating.

Just started watching the show, is it me or basically every single character of this show is unlikable? I cant with the whole family besides the little girl and all the humans are also fucked up

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When DS Drummond is killed how does Kate cry? Like I can understand the idea of the synths replicating the motion of crying like humans but didn’t Niska say just two episodes previously they can’t cry because they don’t have tear ducts?

i cannot find it anywhere for the life of me plz help. apple tv and prime only have seasons 2 and 3 and cant find it anywhere else

Just binged all 3 seasons this week... So sad there is no more. Maybe Netflix will finish it?!? One can hope...

Just finished this show with my daughter, loved seasons 1 and 2 but felt 3 was a bit unfocused but still good. Anyway the point is we like to use quotes from the show and two standouts for for us are “Apricot is your favourite” in that posh Odi voice and when they’re giving the schools kids robot awareness classes and one of Sophie’s classmates shouts “They’re dangerous!!!!”. Anyone else ?😀

so my favorite quote from the show went like "niska has the darkness, mia caring, max loves to help", and fred"...was something i forget. i just tried to skim the part where i thought it was but seems i was wrong. could someone help me finish it, and possibly remind me who said it and when?

Any idea where I can find Season1 here in USA besides buying the Blu-ray on Amazon, I can watch S2 and S3 VOD on Comcast but I don't want to start watching at S2

Did this show end unexpectedly (cancelled?) Or did it end the way the writers wanted it to?

I just finished the series (sorry I’m late) and the parts at the end with Sam seemed odd and a little off character to me. I understand that he wanted to be protective of them and I genuinely laughed when the guy kept saying hit me and Sam out of left field drops the pipe on him, but why did he keep throwing stuff when he was told to stop? He basically incited the attack and that wasn’t very protective.

Were they trying to show early signs of him turning to violence a la Hestor? The hide and seek with Stanley have me the creeps and kind of had a feeling that he was going to hurt Stanley. He showed no emotion/agreement and didn’t acknowledge when Stanley spoke about not harming people anymore. Then the picture of the house was on the wall and I don’t know it seemed really off to me.

Hi All - I've just started this show. Only one episode in. The movie A.I. is one of my favorite movies ever. There are some extreme comparisons that can be made from the first episode to the movie.

1. The way the synths are Imprinted on their owner by reading a list of unique words

2. William Hurt playing a character that seems to have replaced his dead son with a robot. (literally the same actor and storyline... wild)

3. William's Hurt robot saying "Is it a game?" In the movie A.I., this was a line said by Haley Joel Osment multiple times throughout the movie.

4. Main synth character looking to the moon as a sign of freedom. The "moon" being a symbol for the mecca in the movie A.I. is a reoccurring theme.

This can't all be coincidence.

Hello peope! For a presentation I need your help. I have read a paper where this TV show is mentioned and idealy I am looking to find out where the following scene can be found? If someone has a video of it, I would appreciate it!

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In one episode, a group of (human) teenagers are having a house party. At the house party there is a robot serving drinks and catering to the attendees’ needs. The robot looks like a human female. Some of the young men hurl abuse at her. One of them switches her off and then tells his mates that he is going to drag her upstairs to have sex with her. He is goaded on. At this point one of the main (human) female characters intervenes, telling her male peers to stop. When asked why, she responds by asking them whether it would be okay for them to knock out a real human female and have sex with her in similar conditions? They renege on their plan

Right so I have a question. This is my second time watching it now and I can't figure it out. Maybe I missed something but I have a question about her death. She can't make any move that would put herself at risk. So when Sam was injured, how was Karen about to say it was her? She knew she would be killed, she knew she was in danger by doing so which directly goes against the programming that David Elster gives her. Any ideas?

When i watched this show 2 months ago I loved it so much and I got extremely obsessed with it and its honestly the best series ive ever watched. My fave character is definitely Odi and Id recommend this show to everyone, 20/10

Is there gonna be a s4, did covid screw up the filming?

So I just finished the show and immediately tried to understand the whole baby thing. I get where the writers were going with how the baby came to be; synth blood has some sort of DNA structure that was completed when it mixed with Leo's human blood, now becoming part of his DNA, hence in his sperm. They then did the dirty and mattie is carrying a part synthetic baby. But synths have computer parts and software installed so unless they are trying to say the baby is going to start downloading ram in Matties womb, all it really means is the baby is going to be slightly stronger, faster, smarter than the average human (the synths were never shown as being too strong, the most impressive thing was Mia/Anita not dying from a car hitting her in season 1 but we've also seen synths die from one wack from a metal rod so they retconned that strength quick) so the baby, being part synth is probably not even as powerful as a full synth, which means this baby (and any other synth/human babies) are just like winning the gene lottery with a normal baby (side note: you don't need robots for this, we are already close to designer babies irl). There won't be anything other than maybe blue or purple blood to make them any different from a talented kid now.

Also, if my explanation for how the synth blood mixing works is true then either for the synth/human babies to continue, it would have to be incestuous or synths would need a human catalyst to mix their blood with before impregnating a human woman; so essentially, synths will be used to create perfect children for human couples or at the very least, will need a male human to be a surrogate for their children or if the synth is a female, both male and female human surrogates.

Last thing I don't understand is the whole point of V and niska. The whole purpose is to stop Mattie from getting an abortion? The only other thing is to manipulate orange eyes to try make some change which is controlling orange eye synths, soemthing synths don't like, and goes against everything that Max and Mia were fighting for and just puts them back to where they were at before with Anatoles plan, just this time with a hivemind of orange eye niska drones.