I discovered this show by accident, channel surfing one night with nothing else to do, and now I'm hooked. Intelligent, thought-provoking sci-fi is very rare on TV. There are good shows like Fringe and Alcatraz that use sci-fi concepts as plot devices but they don't take the science nor the ramifications of the science seriously. This one does. It's set in the near future or perhaps alternative world where technology has progressed to the point where robots, which are almost indistinguishable from humans, have become a major commodity. Bought and used as menial workers, servants, sex toys or just company the series takes the form of a number of linked stories about the "Hubots" and the humans with which they interact.
It's well-written, acted and nicely paced, and the way the different story threads come together is particularly satisfying. I also like the way the hubots are portrayed as human-like, but not human. They seem to think and see things a bit differently, which makes them sympathetic characters but a little scary.
Plot overview: A man whose wife has left him for a hubot has fallen in with a group of similarly disaffected humans planning some serious anti-hubot payback. A lawyer takes on a case of discrimination against two women who choose to love their hubots openly, whilst her hubot maid is having flashbacks to her former life as part of a group of liberated hubots, before she was captured by some black market thugs and reprogrammed. All the while the rest of her group is on the run from the police and hiding out in a farmhouse, pondering their next move.
It's well-written, acted and nicely paced, and the way the different story threads come together is particularly satisfying. I also like the way the hubots are portrayed as human-like, but not human. They seem to think and see things a bit differently, which makes them sympathetic characters but a little scary.
Plot overview: A man whose wife has left him for a hubot has fallen in with a group of similarly disaffected humans planning some serious anti-hubot payback. A lawyer takes on a case of discrimination against two women who choose to love their hubots openly, whilst her hubot maid is having flashbacks to her former life as part of a group of liberated hubots, before she was captured by some black market thugs and reprogrammed. All the while the rest of her group is on the run from the police and hiding out in a farmhouse, pondering their next move.