Almost Human FOX, 10 p.m. EST, Nov. 17
In a gritty urban future where crime has increased 400 percent and bad guys are armed with face-melting, limb-frying weapons, the police call in reinforcements of a robotic kind. Every officer is assigned a “synthetic” as a partner.
But the recommissioned android Dorian (Michael Ealy), who plays sidekick to troubled cop John Kennex (Karl Urban), is no mere man-bot — he’s programmed to be intuitive, and is arguably more emotive than his scarred and sullen human partner.
A wake-up call for Dorian (Michael Ealy) in Almost Human. | Liane Hentscher/Fox
Sure, there are inventive gadgets and explosive action galore, but the story’s cyborg heart is in the chemistry between Dorian and Kennex, two crime-fighters who together are more than the sum of their parts.
Sets evocative of Blade Runner and a well-paced script for the series pilot suggest Almost Human may be ...
