The Incomparable

Discussed in these episodes

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  The Incomparable Mothership May 7, 2017 AMC and Channel Four’s “Humans” season 2.

  351 You're Right, Father--Kill All Humans

  Jason Snell with John Siracusa and Moisés Chiullan

  Channel Four and AMC’s “Humans” intrigued us with its classic sci-fi premise—what if human-like androids integrated throughout society suddenly become sentient?—when it premiered in 2015. The show’s second season recently completed on American screens, so we’ve gathered to discuss the latest developments. It’s a unique mixing of big ideas and domestic life, but does the second season suffer from the show’s reluctance to make major changes at the end of season one? What made this season so frustrating, so often? Which storylines worked—and which ones were missed opportunities? Why does Carrie Anne Moss keep talking to blades of grass stored on a server? Why would any human want to be a Synth? What’s Mark Zuckerberg doing here? We cover it all.

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  Robot or Not? May 16, 2016

  58 Synths

  John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  From the AMC TV series “Humans,” the lifelike Synths look like humans but don’t act like it. And they bleed a funny color.

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  The Incomparable Mothership September 12, 2015 “Mr. Robot” and “Humans”

  263 Television Shaped Like a Mom

  Jason Snell with John Siracusa, Merlin Mann and David J. Loehr

  We discuss two notable TV series from the summer of 2015, “Mr. Robot” and “Humans.” They’re both excellent. One is about humans, and one is about robots (or not), but not the ones you might think from the titles.