Almost Human

This late entry in the fall season is one of the best. [25 Nov 2013, p.43]

Luckily, nobody overdoes the modernity angle in their acting and so Almost Human feels grounded -- dark, dirty and lived-in, almost like Blade Runner.

It captures the teeming bleakness of the future world and establishes winning chemistry between Kennex and Dorian.

If you can look past a few disquieting flaws and get past that odd feeling that you've seen it all before, you'll find the bones of a potentially entertaining series in Almost Human.

The Kennex-Dorian combo is the best part of Almost Human, which otherwise keeps twisting and turning itself into a series of unwieldy plot knots.

It is mostly humorless, grave sci-fi, but in the pilot the best moments are the most human.

Another dull example of the manufacturing of sci-fi factory goods with the (increasingly devalued) J.J. Abrams label slapped on.