Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Almost Human, Revisited

After premiering the Almost Human pilot on Sunday, the USA network ran the next episode the following night - last night. There was improved story flow in episode two, and Karl Urban's persona as Kennex became less cranky. I believe this series can be a nice cop-show-of-the-future, a sort of Hill Street Blues meets Blade Runner experience.

Isaac Azimov wrote some of the first novels of human and robot cops working together, the Elijah Baley series. If you're interested, see Azimov's cop-and-robot novels: Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn. I read and enjoyed them a very long time ago.