History Series / AlmostHuman

** After airing episodes five through eight in production order after the pilot, episodes two and three by production order aired as numbers eight and six, respectively, bookending episode ten, leaving episodes four and nine for future airdates.

In the year 2048, horrifically high crime rates brought on by uncontrolled technological progress have led to every human police officer being assigned an android partner for safety, record keeping, and making sure they adhere to procedure. After almost two years in a coma after walking into an ambush that got the rest of his squad killed by the criminal organization [=InSyndicate=], Detective John Kennex is brought back onto the force to investigate attacks similar to the one which took out his team.

But rules are rules, so Kennex needs a new android partner. The only one left is DRN "Dorian," a decommissioned model designed to be as human as possible--removed from service due to being [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor too emotional and hard to control]]. Kennex is surprised to find himself forming a bond with Dorian, and the two work together to take down the dangerous criminal organization [=InSyndicate=].

--> '''John:''' "That was magenta--There's [[LamePun fifty shades]] [[FiftyShadesOfGrey of purple]] in there!"

* {{Expy}}: Your mileage may vary, but to Asimov fans, this series has a few shades of [[TheCavesOfSteel Elijah Baley and Daneel Olivaw]] in the characters of John Kennex (dislikes robots on general principle) and Dorian (a robot with near-human abilities). Dorian even has the Asimovian tradition in his name, being an expansion of his model line's initials DRN.

* ButNotTooBlack: Both Dorian and the ex-girlfriend. Of course, it's likely that Dorian is played by Michael Ealy ''because'' he looks unusual. The MXs come across as similarly racially ambiguous.

* ButNotTooBlack: Both Dorian and the ex-girlfriend. Of course, it's likely that Dorian is played by Michael Ealy ''because'' he looks unusual.

**** ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' the animation possibly got a shout out in Straw Man where a machine samples people's blood in return for <del>cabbage</del> a vitamin pill.

* PortmanteauCoupleName:
** Detective Stahl/Kennex is Stannex, Stahlex, or even Stahnex
** John Kennex/Dorian is Jorian
** Richard Paul/and his MX, popularized as 'Two Sugars' on tumblr after episode "Simon Says". In a December 2013 interview with the actor, Irby, he states that he calls his MX "Coffee, two sugars".

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/{{Fringe}}''. And also to ''Total Recall 2070''.

**** ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' the animation possibly got a shout out in Straw Man where a machine samples peoples blood in return for [[strike:cabbage]] a vitamin pill.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: The premise. While rapidly advancing technology is certainly possible, the fact that seemingly all of it is being used by criminals is rather absurd. The incentive for producing devices whose sole purpose is to committ crimes is noexistant in any civilized society, any inventor or engineer would make far more money selling their work legitimately. Additionally, studies have long shown that advances in technology universally improve the standard of living, thereby reducing crime rates.

* FanNickname: The DRN 494 from Episode 6 was quickly dubbed with a 'D' name of his own, "Darren".

* HoYay: Well, Dorian, and John love to look deep in each others' eyes, even when John is driving a car, and Dorian claims that he really hoped someone would wake him up, and that that person was John, which sounds a lot like Sleeping Beauty to me. John, and Dorian just kept getting closer, and closer as the show progressed.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Depending on the android. [=MX=]es are basically treated as the good-guy equivalent of FacelessMooks, and when John shoots one in the head because it was annoying him, he just gets an official reprimand for drawing his gun when there wasn't a threat.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Android police officers are treated at the same levels as their human counterparts.

* ActorAllusion: [[KarlUrban Kennex]] threatens someody with time [[Comicbook/JudgeDredd the cubes]]

'''Almost Human''' is a [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] [[PoliceProcedural procedural]], airing on {{Fox}}.

** Of course it was. People would stare at someone with a woman's head on a male body.
** Also, that body was probably upgraded by Vaughn. Imagine if standard sexbots were that strong...

** Avery's lecture to Maldonado is very similar to [[HannibalLecture the lecture of another highly intelligent psychopath]].

''Almost Human'' follows the week-to-week missions of John and Dorian, as they fight crime across this futuristic landscape, while the mysteries surrounding John's attack and the larger mythology of this new world unfold.

** Note, too, that while the creator of Dorian and [[EvilCounterpart Danica]] uses gendered pronouns to refer to them, Kennex specifically uses "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]" to refer to Danica. Not suprising, considering how many people it slaughtered.

** Dorian's model designation, "DRN", is the one used for all of [[MegaMan Dr. Light's robots]].

--> '''John:''' "That was magenta--There's fifty shades of purple in there!"