Last
night Fox's new sci-fi police drama tv series debut and what a joy to
watch. Almost Human is a buddy cop show between a scarred policed
detective played by Karl Urban and a synthetic played by Michael
Ealy.
Almost
Human isn't re-imagining the wheel by any means, but it doesn't need
to. A buddy cop show is almost always a good thing, add a conspiracy
and futuristic technology and robots then we are in for hours of pure
entertainment.
Starring
in the pilot is Karl Urban as John Kennex, a police officer that
looses his partner and leg in a raid on a terrorist organization
compound and blames not only the terrorists but also the synthetics
that were acting as their backup for their cold and calculated logic,
which prevented or not his partner from dying. After receiving a new
robotic leg, Kennex is brought back to the force, after his Captain
(Lili Taylor) discovers that there might be a correlation between an
armed car robbery and the terrorist organization that was responsible
for his partner's death. Kennex is partnered up with a synthetic but
quickly disposes of him, since he isn't ready to trust them and their
“logical” logic, but because it is obligatory for a human police
officer to be accompanied by a robot he meets up with the tech Rudy
(Mackenzie Crook) and get's himself a new synthetic, Dorian (Ealy).
Dorian is a discontinued synthetic, his almost human characteristics
caused a little bit of concerned and was ready be re-purposed to do
some other job. After an initial friction, the two “broken”
characters start to get along and discover that Kennex ex-girlfriend
is part of the terrorist organization and was at the compound where
Kennex partner died and he lost his leg. They also find out that the
terrorist organization is after something in the evidence locker and
must stop them from retrieving it. A confrontation goes down in the
police station and the terrorists are apprehended. At the end we but
not the characters discover that the terrorists were after a
synthetic's head, but for what purposed is unknown.
The
pilot doesn't suffer from pilot sickness, meaning that the story
doesn't have any loose ends, the performances are solid, it's like
the series has been going at it for a while now and all the kinks have been
solved.
The
pilot ends up with some questions that makes us want to watch the
next episode, and the next episode we shall watch.
I
give the pilot 9 out of 10
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