TV Series Review | Drama, Sci-Fi

Humans — Would You Buy a Robot?

Tackling societal, cultural, and psychological impacts of consumer-level robotics and fear of true artificial intelligence, this British-American series proves decently entertaining

Gemma Chan as Anita. Credit: Channel 4

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When HBO’s Westworld took the world by storm with fantastic exploration of artificial intelligence and synthetic beings in 2016, and enthralled me to no end, so much so that I still consider its first season one of the best seasons of television, I came across another, lesser-known series.

Jointly produced by the British (Channel 4) and the Americans (AMC), rather than taking you through a mind-bending AI maze journey, it opted for a mundane and, in some ways, more appealing scenario of how daily life would look if consumer-level robots were readily available as any other appliance.

Humans was a neat companion to Westworld for my AI and robotics itch. It was also sort of a Television I’Robot — a film I've always enjoyed — minus Will Smith and a lot more drama.

But whereas Westworld, I’Robot, and other similar media tend to take place in different periods, Humans…