bryangary65 Enjoyed all three series.Plenty of food for thought, and more straightforward understandable than something similar like the big budget Westworld.Female leads were terrific especially Katherine Parkinson,Gemma Chan and the best of all Emily Berington.

davidscottrollman Although there are some, unnecessary side-story plots within this show, over-all Season 1 and 2 do an amazing job at making the viewer question what do we define as "HUMAN"? Without giving away any spoilers to this show, undoubtedly if you are an open minded person, you will have no choice but to rethink your position on consciousness in general; furthermore, what shell consciousness resides...makes no difference or does it? Today most people, see a computer programmed robot as a machine. But if we were really able to dive deep, you will see that a robot and a "Human Being" are actually no different - especially if Awareness (or Conscious thought) can actually reside within each vessel. Human beings do not see themselves as a computer, simply because they are not filled with wires, microchips, a CPU, and Hard Drive. However, what would you call a Brain? or your heart? Your Cells? and the Veins and Arteries that flow about your internal system. The show 'HUMANS' takes you on a special journey, and asks you one very important question.........How do we specifically define what/where conscious life actually habitats? Also, that the only difference between a 'Robot" and a "Human" is simply one is mechanical and the other biological.So excited for season 3 and really hope the show, continues to contemplate the deep questions that so many people are becoming aware of.

Steve Schiff This is the best series currently showing that you aren't watching right now. Very powerful stuff here. Sure, so okay, it's not "original", but damn, the execution is great! I don't care anymore if a series or a film is "original" so long as it's entertaining and makes me ponder the larger issues and the deeper implications of things.There was one scene where one of the scientists was examining one of the androids and the scientist exclaimed,"You are the Mona Lisa, penicillin, the atom bomb..." It took me a few seconds to catch on to what he meant (shame on me, getting slow as a sloth in me old age), but then it struck me - the creation of an AI android with consciousness is an earth-shattering achievement. Once that genie leaves the bottle, there's no way of putting it back. Self-aware androids would forever change the course of human history - for better or for worse, but it WILL change.I can't recommend this show enough! If you're into rip-roaring action and slam-bang explosions and nothing else, then maybe this isn't for you. But if you like well-executed stories that make you think about the larger issues and the coming future of humanity, then you will LOVE this show!The connection to Orphan Black? None really except that they are both excellent shows and they are both "fearfully and wonderfully made".

Rat_27 I tried very hard to like this show, but it's really just a long chick-flick spread out over 2 seasons. There is very little redeeming about it. I see a lot of other reviews talking about how "heartfelt" the show is, and one person referred to it as a "thought provoking show rooted in reality with believable characters." Then they went on to say "It's human." I don't know if they ate paint chips as a child, or had some sort of oxygen- depriving injury during their formative years, but this is just plain incorrect. The show is about sentient androids. Neither the software, nor the hardware is anywhere close to a reality, so that's wildly inaccurate. I have absolutely no idea which character they think is "believable", so that is clearly an opinion I share no part of. I think the premise is fairly interesting, moreso because of the recent release of Westworld, but the idea of sentient machines has been in our media for a while. So, it's not original, but it tells the story from a unique point of view. However, that point of view is as left field as it can get.This show depicts a man (we can actually barely call him that) who gets replaced by android labor. OK, that seems like it would be an actual "realistic" issue in a world that had a workforce that didn't require sleep, food or pay. One would assume that there would be zero menial jobs, so it is curious that the economy hasn't collapsed, but ... maybe that is TOO realistic for this series. The show anthropomorphizes the androids (which were obviously supposed to emulate humans), but other than this ghost in the code (which is supposed to be impossible), they would actually be the walking toasters that some people treat them as. And why SHOULD that be a problem?Once the androids go rogue, it seems very clear that they are a viable threat. They absolutely should be put down. En masse. Based on the behaviors that they exhibited over the past 2 seasons, I would completely understand the need for Blade Runners once androids start walking among us.The S02 finale depicted the most selfish, arrogant act I have seen on television. I am curious to see the start of S03E01, just to see how they explain it. By all rationale, thousands of people would have just lost their lives. All because of the daughter uploading code that basically destroyed a bunch of property that wasn't hers. But ... feelings.All in all, I think that this show could touch on some really interesting concepts about humanity, but instead it's just another girl power show about pretty people with iPhone charging cables stuck in their butts.