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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654580/
was https://www.fox.com/almost-human/
A buddy cop show with an android, set in the near future.
It’s great all around, especially the acting from the lead characters. Once the initial interest wears off, it lacks the good writing to give it either an episodic groove or an overall story arc. It’s especially poor with an arc which could last it into another season, trivially-justifying its cancellation.
Recommended only for fans of “loose” science fiction who would be interested in the robot buddy cop angle. Watch one episode, then decide. Others can give it a pass, unless they like Karl Urban, who plays a cop played by Karl Urban.
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They tried for #almosthuman (Twitter)
- 1 s01e01 – 2013-11-17 – Pilot
- 2 s01e02 – 2013-11-18 – Skin
- 3 s01e03 – 2013-11-25 – Are You Receiving?
- 4 s01e04 – 2013-12-02 – The Bends
- 5 s01e05 – 2013-12-09 – Blood Brothers
- 6 s01e06 – 2013-12-16 – Arrhythmia
- 7 s01e07 – 2014-01-06 – Simon Says
- 8 s01e08 – 2014-01-13 – You Are Here
- 9 s01e09 – 2014-02-03 – Unbound
- 10 s01e10 – 2014-02-10 – Perception
- 11 s01e11 – 2014-02-17 – Disrupt
- 12 s01e12 – 2014-02-24 – Beholder
- 13 s01e13 – 2014-03-03 – Straw Man
s01e01 – 2013-11-17 – Pilot ∞
Spoiler
- 0:00 — 2048
- 0:00 — Narration.
- 14:00 — Cambodian New Year
- 36:15 — First-order logic
- 37:30 — God this music is amazing.
- 41:15 — A laser tracked on a face is damned dangerous.. one slip and it gets into an eye..
- 41:45 — Segway PT
s01e02 – 2013-11-18 – Skin ∞
Spoiler
- 34:45 — That GPS ping nonsense is such a pile of bullshit fabricated for a resolution.
- 38:15 — Benedict Android = Benedict Arnold
- 40:00 — Why not skin and refurbish her?
s01e03 – 2013-11-25 – Are You Receiving? ∞
Spoiler
I’ve seen this episode before, but I re-watched it to add notes and get back into this series after my absence from it.
- 1:30 — Olive oil
- 2:45 — Look at her bold moves, asking him out like that.
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5:30 — Not if they killed the fucking cameras.
- The front desk, sure, but nowhere else..
- 8:00 — Can’t kill a woman, even for consistency.
- 10:15 — Good luck evacuating three blocks so quickly, in an area with office buildings.
- 13:15 — Almost picked a woman.
- 14:00 — How come they can communicate when a wide area was blacked out from communications.
- 14:30 — So they have magic comms, but the ones their cops have don’t work?
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15:00 — “Get down to brass tacks“
- I don’t know if this is related to actual drawing pins.
- 18:00 — Lake McFarlane is in Ontario Canada.
- 27:15 — Elton John was Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
- 36:45 — This high-speed thing is so annoying.
- 42:30 — Bennie and the Jets – (1973 song), by Elton John
s01e04 – 2013-12-02 – The Bends ∞
Spoiler
- 1:30 — 24 hours earlier
- 16:30 — He’s thinking of James Bond.
- 18:15 — I believe that’s Fight the Power – (1989 song), by Public Enemy.
- 20:45 — Officer’s discretion? That’s not a thing. Let’s hope that’s never a thing.
- 22:30 — If he were British, he would have pronounced iodine eye-oh-deen.
- 30:45 — Wouldn’t they know their fake-lab was busted?
- 34:00 — Oh god his teeth are awful.
- 35:45 — They have a, presumably, expensive bot with them. How could he hide from advanced sensors and all that?
- 37:30 — Doesn’t he have a backup gun or an extra magazine or something?
s01e05 – 2013-12-09 – Blood Brothers ∞
Spoiler
- 2:15 — Ken (doll)
- 4:00 — That’s adding some opinion..
- 14:30 — “Percentage of brain usage” .. oh god this persistent bullshit.
- 23:00 — “Proficient” means “well trained” ..
- 40:00 — No she doesn’t.
s01e06 – 2013-12-16 – Arrhythmia ∞
Spoiler
- 25:30 — Grigori Rasputin
- 30:45 — Bitcoin
s01e07 – 2014-01-06 – Simon Says ∞
Spoiler
- 8:00 — Why wouldn’t they have proper speakers in the cop car, since a human might have to use it?
- 13:15 — Darknet
- 13:45 — Over three thousand.
- 28:15 — Why couldn’t the car help charge him?
s01e08 – 2014-01-13 – You Are Here ∞
Spoiler
- 9:00 — She used to be very mad about their value when they were destroyed.
s01e09 – 2014-02-03 – Unbound ∞
Spoiler
- 3:00 — Suicide by cop
- 12:45 — I know that actor. From a courtroom show.
- 17:45 — Why would she be mad? She’d want any option on the table, considering how dangerous that foe is.
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20:45 — False.
Was the wall introduced out of nowhere? Even now, there’s no real background as to what that is, why it’s there and what’s on the other side. This poor writing may have been a contribution to this show’s cancellation.
s01e10 – 2014-02-10 – Perception ∞
Spoiler
- 0:30 — Augmented reality
- 1:30 — See also Jupiter Ascending – (2015 movie).
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36:30 — Oh god, friendzoned..
I basically stopped paying attention..
s01e11 – 2014-02-17 – Disrupt ∞
Spoiler
- 2:45 — Genital piercing
- 7:45 — Hemorrhoid
- 13:00 — This does not justify the automated murdering of trespassers.
s01e12 – 2014-02-24 – Beholder ∞
Spoiler
This episode’s name is perhaps a reference to the Dungeons & Dragons Beholder.
- 1:45 — Doom sound
- 3:30 — “Guy code”
- 14:45 — Rothschild, but the nose reference doesn’t help me narrow it down.
- 15:30 — Mike and Ike
- 22:00 — This is something akin to transhumanism body modification addiction.
- 24:30 — See also Total Recall – (1990 movie)
- 28:15 — That the least hidden cop ever.
- 33:00 — Body dysmorphic disorder
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35:45 — She’s really a man!
- Or blind.
s01e13 – 2014-03-03 – Straw Man ∞
Spoiler
- 9:00 — Oh god, that’s for an autopsy.
- 14:00 — This sort of story arc should have been hinted at from the beginning and started much earlier in the season.
- 19:15 — Patsy
- 26:30 — Okay, so there are “bit sticks” which are not related to BitCoin.
- 26:40 — Hello – (1984 song), by Lionel Richie
- 32:30 — A flashlight? If only he had nightvision sunglasses.
- 37:45 — Will there be any reparations for putting an innocent man in prison for thirty years?
- 39:00 — No, no he won’t continue his term. This entire show won’t get another term.
- 42:00 — The whole show should end on the leg just being left behind.

