DJariya

Synopsis:

FUTURE CRIMES AND TECHNOLOGY PUT LIVES ON THE LINE IN AN ALL-NEW "ALMOST HUMAN" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, ON FOX

The thrilling action continues in another all-new, adrenaline-fueled episode. Detective Kennex and Dorian battle an intense and futuristic hostage situation, while Captain Maldonado (Lili Taylor) attempts to meet the terrorist's demands, hoping to protect innocent people in the all-new "Are You Receiving?" episode of ALMOST HUMAN airing Monday, Nov. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (HU-106) (TV-14 L, V)

Cast: Karl Urban as John Kennex
Michael Ealy as Dorian
Minka Kelly as Detective Valerie Stahl
Mackenzie Crook as Rudy Lom
Michael Irby as Detective Richard Paul
Lili Taylor as Captain Sandra Maldonado.

Guest Cast:
Anthony Konechny as MX-43 #1
Darren E. Scott as MX-43 #2
Garfield Wilson as MX-43 #3
Emily Rios as Paige
Damon Herriman as Lucas Vincent
Richard Stroh as Boone
Kam Kozak as Danny
Max Boateng as Gregor
William Vaughan as James
Allison Araya as Mrs. Miller
Julia Tortolano as Jenna.

Goldberg74

"Boring conversation anyway."

Good ep.

Draven

Loved the gum scene. I really like this show. Nice balance of humor and action.

And holy shit to showing the hostage bouncing on the ground. Didn't expect them to show that.

Joe Schmoe

Great episode. Reminded me of Die Hard a bit. The "boring conversation anyway" line reminded me of Han Solo in Star Wars. The gum was gross, but the inventions and effects were cool. I too was surprised when the hostage bounced off the ground.

Baron Of Hell

The scene from last week's preview never happen in this episode.

I thought he was going say he made the ice hole story up.

John dropping his mask just before shooting was odd. Why not just kill them with it on.

Hot cop lady was really turning on the cuteness, maybe to much.

TGM

was the head terrorist Michael Rooker's younger brother? sure looked and sounded like him.

writer106

Interesting article about this show and DVR numbers

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-ent...s-a-dvr-winner

VHS?

Well it's nice to know that DVR numbers are counted. I just dont have enough in the house to keep up with everything that everyone watches and records.

I really liked this episode. The chemistry between Kennex and Dorian is great.
I would be perfectly happy without a cute love story between Kennex and Stahl
Just knowing she is moist every episode is fine.

Baron Of Hell

I bet she is moist.

Deftones

nope. it is this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380632/

he also plays dewey crowe on justified. didn't sound like him at all, though.

cool episode. I love how Dorian gives back all the shit that Kennex gives him.

mikehunt

loved the star wars line
this show is off to a good start IMO

MLBFan24

The thing I'm enjoying the most from this series are the cool tech ideas (though I'm not sure if they've been thought of before, or fresh ideas from this show)

For example:

DNA "bomb"
The "Start" and "10 Minutes" communication tools

hahn

Pretty good start. Hopefully they add in a long story arc at some point. The crime-of-the-week thing could get old after while.

Eric F

Liked the follow through from the earlier episode with the Olive Oil.

Thrush

I had a greek salad!!

Goldberg74

At 10:00am?

madcougar

I tuned in on JJ Abrhams name alone and have been pleasantly surprised. That last fire fight was pretty intense.

Eric F

All the MX androids are douchebags, there must be other active DRN androids in this universe, hopefully we'll meet some.

lisadoris

This episode had a Die Hard feel to it but that's not a bad thing. I did have Bennie and the Jets stuck in my head for the rest of the night though.

writer106

I think we will meet more DRNs since it was mentioned in the pilot about them being sent places to do manual labor and maybe Maldonado will ask for another DRN to join the force.

mikehunt

the sex bots have some similar programming
the MXs definitely seem like a step back even though they're later models. guess the people prefer cannon fodder droids over ones that develop personality and therefore run the risk of the same kind of idiosyncrasies humans get

Eric F

What they said in the squadroom was that the DRN models went "insane" or something like that. It will be interesting to see how many DRN models are still left active that being the case.

Raul3

Agree with everyone. Great episode. Yeah, Die Hard and everything. I actually think this could have been a really good full length movie. There's a really thin main story so far, but I'm fine with that, they can grow the mythology later.

DJariya

Solid episode. The heist plot was cool, but the main thing I love is the chemistry between Urban and Ealy.

at how Dorian doesn't take any shit from Kennex. The gum repairs scene was pretty funny.

Really badass scene when Dorian jumped out of the shaft and used his machine gun to take out most of the terrorists.

Kennex: Okay, let's go out for noodles.

Dorian: You realize that I don't eat?

Kennex: Good, cuz I'm not buying.

Liked Dorian at the end singing Benny and the Jets. Fun futuristic crime procedural. If you still haven't watched this yet, I don't think you should write this off because it's a procedural.

DJariya

Agree. That's how Fringe started out. Case of the week procedural for the Fringe team, then it developed a stronger mythology in the 2nd season.

I noticed that a few of the Producers of Almost Human used to work on CSI, so that's probably how they developed the procedural end of the show.