I got a sneak peek at it and I must say that it is about the best UK
sci-fi drama I've seen since "Utopia". It debuts this Sunday in the US
on the AMC network. It stars Katherine Parkinson ("The IT Crowd", "An
Honorable Woman") and US actor William Hurt. Also a familiar face from
"Utopia", Neil Maskell, is in the cast.
It's a show about a topic we've been discussing for a while on FFL and
that is technology overtaking humans, i.e. "The Singularity". It's about
a family who gets a "synth" (android) as a house member to take care of
chores the working parents don't have much time for.
https://youtu.be/6FJQpK6EVTk
Once again the UK outshines the US in their television production.
Probably for a couple reasons: smaller budgets (this was brought out in
the extras on the "Utopia" BD) so no time for all that puffed up
polishing that seems to smother both Hollywood and Canadian
productions. And number two: perhaps these series aren't done by "blue
bloods" but by people with actual creative talent. In Hollywood, it's
not "what you know but who you know" that counts.
I'm wondering if AMC is going to get the last laugh on HBO here. They're
taking the UK Channel 4 production and showing it just a mere two weeks
after it debuted in the UK. That's right, no "US remake" as we saw with
"The Killing" or "The Bridge". Oh but I would be remiss not to say
"Humans" is a remake of the Swedish series "Real Humans" which for some
reason I missed even though it ran on Netflix last year.
Speaking of the HBO remake of "Utopia" here's a news item about
Fincher's production... slowly making its way to HBO. I hope Fincher
doesn't smother what was a perfectly fine series originally. Also I
feel that every year that this production delays the "immediacy" of the
message of "Utopia" gets lost.
http://screenrant.com/utopia-hbo-rooney-mara/
