You may have seen the unnerving trailers for this sci-fi drama – the ones that look as if they’re adverts for domestic robots from a company called Persona Synthetics and are just bland and slippery enough to be believable. The drama itself is equally unsettling, set in the present but a very different present, where synthetic appliances or “synths” are commonplace and hassled dad Joe (Tom Goodman-Hill) decides it’s time he got one.
There are two problems, though, as an intriguing plot begins to unspool: the first is that Joe’s tense wife (Katherine Parkinson) doesn’t approve: “I don’t want one around the kids,” she worries, “It’ll mess with their heads.” (She’s not wrong – it does.) The bigger issue is that this particular unit may have developed a complication – feelings. The stage is set for a thoughtful fable somewhere between Black Mirror and a seminar on consciousness.
There are two problems, though, as an intriguing plot begins to unspool: the first is that Joe’s tense wife (Katherine Parkinson) doesn’t approve: “I don’t want one around the kids,” she worries, “It’ll mess with their heads.” (She’s not wrong – it does.) The bigger issue is that this particular unit may have developed a complication – feelings. The stage is set for a thoughtful fable somewhere between Black Mirror and a seminar on consciousness.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
1/8. New series. Sci-fi drama, starring William Hurt, Colin Morgan and Katherine Parkinson. A couple buy a synthetic human, or `synth' to help around the house, but the new arrival threatens to expose their secrets. A retired engineer's paternal relationship with his own synth is threatened by a malfunction, an android and his owner go on the run, and a detective grows suspicious of his wife's close bond with her synth.
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