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

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	The Incomparable.
0:06.1	Number 351, May 2017.
0:12.4	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:14.3	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:15.7	I'm here this time to talk about another one of these,
0:19.1	this raft of interesting science fiction
0:21.7	slash fantasy TV series that finished airing their seasons this spring, and that I enjoyed a lot,
0:29.1	and I want to talk to people about them. And so what I do is I have a podcast, so I get to talk
0:34.2	about them with people on a podcast instead of just in real life, like most people. So in this episode, we're going to talk about them with people on a podcast instead of just in real life like most people.
0:39.4	So in this episode, we're going to talk about humans, a TV series that aired last fall, actually on
0:46.2	Channel 4 in the UK, and this spring on AMC in the US, we covered season one in episode 263 of
0:54.1	the incomparable, along with the first season of Mr. Robot, actually.
0:57.3	And we're back to talk about season two of humans joining me to talk about it.
1:02.0	Are these two fine gentlemen, Moises Chouyan, hello.
1:05.7	Jason, how may I be of assistance?
1:07.7	Thank you, Moises. It's good to have you here.
1:09.4	Also here, is he a human or not?
1:12.8	Wait a second. That's the wrong podcast. It's John Syracusa. Hello.
1:16.7	Sometimes the A is upside down. I know. What does that mean? And then it flips around. Is it like a
1:22.4	little person going, yay, with its arms? And then it puts its arm down like oh or very confusing yeah um they do that in
1:30.1	the credits too all the a is flip around they're upside down and maybe there's maybe there's
1:35.6	something thematic there i don't know so so humans before we fire off the spoiler horn and talk
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