Humans

Spoiler alert: this recap covers the seventh episode of Humans showing on Channel 4. For episode six, click here.

What another incredible episode of HUMANS, which beggars the question: if you haven’t yet watched any of the series, why on earth not?

It seems every week I declare the episode better than its predecessor, but episode 7 really was gripping and another emotional watch.

We learn more about the Synths and their intentions – there are no big plans for a robotic rise in power and global human destruction, as first suspected and even feared by the humans in the start of the series. Viewers hoping for a TV bout of TERMINATOR style action, will not get that here. These lovable Synths simply want to get on with life – and live in blissful synthetic joy away from the danger of those hunting them. 

Humans

However, Sunday night’s episode was indeed the penultimate hour in the popular series, so we were expecting a bit of a roller coaster ride, heading towards an all-encompassing finale next week.

Despite learning that the Synths in the show have human levels of consciousness, the audience may have found themselves to be as fond of the robots as the Hawkins family has become. They are kind, friendly, but rather understandably suspicious of humans. Even brothel-worker-come-murderer Niska (Emily Berrington) is showing her softer side as she rather reluctantly enjoys playing with young Sophie (Pixie Davis). No signs of the killer Synth this week.

Fred (Sope Dirisu) is back in action again – and not attacking anyone now that he has escaped and is reunited with Leo (Colin Morgan) once more. Even he has shown his humanistic capabilities enjoying a kick about in the garden with the Hawkins family. How could this lovely bunch ever cause any harm to us mere humans? Well, according to secret Synth, Karen Voss (Ruth Bradley), who also happens to be a Detective, we should be afraid of the Synths who could multiply and control the human race. 

Karen is the reincarnated version of Beatrice Elster – and she’s not happy that she has been left alone over the years and is clearly suffering in her solitude existence. Unable to come to terms with what he had created, Elster later took his own life – as his beloved Beatrice had done.

It is easy to feel sorry for Karen/Beatrice, but it is her that emerges as the villain in HUMANS. She is not on the same side as her fellow kind, as she wants them all destroyed. Karen/Beatrice’s objective is to prevent her ‘son’ Leo from achieving full consciousness for all Synths. To think we use to like her...

To make matters worse, as she discovers where Niska is, the consequences take a turn for the worst for George Millican (William Hurt).

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Unfortunately one of the most likeable characters took the bullet defending Niska and the scientist has been killed off. This seems to be a bit of a bold move, as he could have had a rather intrinsic role within the plot and could have been an important character to help the Synths in the future. 

The level of acting throughout is sublime, from Emily Berrington’s hard exterior as Niska cracking as she plays with little Sophie, Colin Morgan’s emotional conflictions as he breaks down alone in the bathroom. Max’s (Ivanno Jeremiah) ability to look as though his robotics have malfunctioned were great and of course the heartbreaking scene final scene between a malfunctioning Odi (Will Tudor) and Millican were vert touching. To make matters worse, we learn of Odi’s fate – he has been ordered to be scrapped by Hobb. He is now on our villain list too after that decision!

With the Synths hoping to leave the Hawkins house as a family and start afresh, Karen/Beatrice has turned them in and we see them in a situation we can but only wonder how they will get out of it. Laura Hawkins (Katherine Parkinson) may be the only hope they have. Could the lawyer somehow bring media attention to the truth about these special Synths?

HUMANS has proven to be one heck of a show and even after seven hours of viewing, it has kept us on our toes and made it impossible to predict what will happen next. That is a rare feat with shows indeed. HUMANS has done a great job in keeping the audience’s attention and leaving us wanting more. Even for those who are not fans of the sci-fi genre, they will not feel excluded by this series, it is definitely one for everybody to enjoy.  

Already the show is approaching the finishing line of the first season and there is one thing I have come to expect from the show – prepare for the unexpected. 

The final episode of HUMANS airs Sunday August 2nd at 9:00pm.

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