Almost Human, the new JJ Abrams show starring Karl Urban (1 Viewer)

[Sam Posten]

Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwxg534yAwFox details:http://www.fox.com/almost-human/8 pm tonight EST, 2 hour premiere.Reviews are mixed (spoilers probably, I just link em, I didn't read em)http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/16/why-you-should-watch-jj-abrams-almost-humanhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/17/almost-human-review-a-dystopian-future-that-we-ve-seen-before.htmlhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20302134_20756421,00.html

 

[Robert Crawford]

Only one hour tonight with the second hour tomorrow.

 

[Sam Posten]

Thanks for the clarification! Was surprised there wasn't a thread for this already.

 

[Sam Posten]

Was OK, next week looks better.

 

[Citizen87645]

A strong start. I was a little surprised the two bonded so quickly. I would have thought they'd drag out the characters not getting along, but I'm not exactly complaining.

 

[Matt Hough]

Was OK, next week looks better.

Meaning tonight? It's on at 8 p.m., its regular timeslot starting Monday night.

 

[schan1269]

I haven't watched yet, waiting for episode 2 so I can watch back to back.

 

[Quentin]

I enjoyed it enough to keep watching. Urban is the man.

I do have to say they went all out on the look of this show. Great camera work, great FX, great set design. While the story seems pretty standard/vanilla at this point, there can be no mistaking it for anything less than the best looking genre show on TV. I feel like I'm watching a fully realized world.

Too bad SHIELD dropped the ball so bad on this. Watch this show next to SHIELD and prepare to be flummoxxed over how/why the Marvel flagship TV show ended up looking like Charlie's Angels in comparison.

 

[Parker Clack]

I kept expecting someone to speak in some sort of Chinese/English mashup and say to Urban's character
"You Brade Runner".....

I really enjoyed the high production values that they put into the show. I had the feeling of watching a theatrical
release and not something designed for TV. The dialogue was spot on and I could get into the characters right
away. I felt like I had been watching the show for a few weeks and not for the first time.

Looking forward to this.

For some reason I thought that this was something that was going to be released earlier in the year. Was this
delayed or am I just remembering wrong?

 

[Matt Hough]

I enjoyed tonight's episode, but they're already starting the romantic pairing of cops in the workplace! Geez!

 

[Parker Clack]

Sebastian? Sex Bots? Skin Jobs?

J.H.Wyman and Abrams really like Blade Runner.


Again, loved the show. Just couldn't get over all the references.

 

[schan1269]

That was a great show.Loved the references.

 

[DavidJ]

Haven't seen tonight's episode yet (we forgot to set the DVR), but I really liked the pilot. Urban and Ealy are great as the leads and the production value was great.

 

[Walter C]

I enjoyed both episodes, as this show looks a lot more promising than "Common Law". It does have that "Robocop" feel to it.

 

[Walter Kittel]

I've watched both episodes and I mostly enjoyed it.

Pros
The cast and the chemistry between Urban and Ealy.
The production design and FX / general look of the series.
The themes of synthetic vs. natural life and how those differences and simularities will illustrate the nature of both of them.
Bladerunner - the television series.

Cons
Writing is a bit too formulaic and kind of drags down the show in some ways. Some cliches and tropes I could have done without are present.

Other thoughts
So Kennex chunks his expensive MX series robot partner out of his vehicle causing a crash and damaging an expensive piece of government gear and there are no repercussions. Sure it was a quick way to establish the character's issues with artificial units but it kind of pulled me out of the show with its unrealistic tone.

How long before the 'Kennex is a synthetic unit' rumors start swirling around the internet?

I'm sticking around for all of the reasons I listed as pros and I hope the writing becomes a little less predictable.

- Walter.

 

[ScottH]

I think I made it about halfway through the pilot and couldn't take it anymore. Just a very formulaic poorly written procedural show. I'd say it belongs on SyFy but I don't think it's even up to their standards.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I liked the pilot, but thought episode two was a bit too cartoony. Almost felt like a bigger-budget throwback to the syndicated science fiction shows that had their niche in the nineties.As always, Minka Kelly is distractingly beautiful. A bit confused as to her role. In the pilot, her title was intelligence analyst. In the second episode, she was a detective just like Kennex but didn't seem to work any cases of her own and basically seemed to exist just to feed Kennex and Dorian plot points.

 

[schan1269]

Detectives can be Intelligence Analysts. (otherwise she would never be in the field. But CSI breaks that rule )

 

[Sam Posten]

Urban has really expanded his acting chops. Watch him in anything before Doom and he's pretty wooden. This second episode was a lot of fun seeing the relationship change and him not being such the one dimensional guy he was in the first.

 

[Matt Hough]

Enjoyable episode with a couple of neat twists.