I am heading back to the cafe with Katie this morning.
Real Humans, the SVT show from 2012, is the best sf show I’ve seen since BSG came out. It is filled with beautiful and nuanced performances, amazing photography, whip smart writing EVEN IN TRANSLATION, deft and surprising plotting, great background music, hat tips to all our favourite science fiction movies, a portrayal of family life which through its economy and plotting is realistic and emotionally sound – without making the father look like a moron or a wimp or a drunk or an emotionally abusive jackass or the mother like superwoman or hysterical, or the kids like little cookie cutters, brilliant set pieces which totally rock the ensemble acting, and it asks, all the time and at many levels – what does it mean to be human? Where do we get our ‘programming’ from? Is the most important thing about us that we can be kind?
Oh, and naked girl robots, but you knew that without asking. It is filled with little Swedish touches regarding being open minded about sexuality which play out in a variety of interesting and sometimes cringe inducing and sometimes laugh out loud hilarious ways.
It’s a very UNITARIAN show, in terms of its concerns and writing. Very, very satisfying.