I am concerned at how the show will progress. Will the mother loose her mind? Will Anita take the child away from her thinking it is the "right" thing to do?

I hope they can learn from ech other. Maybe the teenge daugther learning the synths arent bad, and the mother coming round to them. I wonder if Aniata knows she is destroying there family?

the combination of her Anita being one of the more alive synths, and her having had new programming forced on her clearly is unstable and highly dangerous, and the reason for the strange behavior.

At some point Antia is going to be hacked, and the truth discovered, hopefully before any lasting damage is done.

The privately bought ones all seem to be attractive - the policewoman lusting over the one which was giving Jill Halfpenny a massage, the prostitutes, hunky gardeners etc. You don't buy the NHS one, you have it forced on you and you will obey! So looks and personality aren't important with them.

BIB - he's looking for Anita as she was in the group hiding in the woods. It appears that he is a cyborg rather than a true synth. It seems that his father created the original synths and turned him into a cyborg (which came first I'm not sure, but either he experimented on his son first, or the synths came first then he decided to see if the technology could be extended to change humans)

I'm enjoying this series. I like programmes to open up layer by layer as I'm watching. If I know everything and everybody and their motivations beforehand there's nothing to discover and they're a bit pointless to watch.

I'm not usually a fan of sci fi but I am absolutely loving this series. Daughter and I sit from start to finish, no speaking, no phones or laptops and it takes a lot to get her to put her phone down.

I'm interested to see where the story is going and like that a bit more is unfolded each week. I don't find it slow, pacing is fine for me. I did think Colin Morgan's character was human until last night.

Can't wait until next week.

I thought he looked like a geek who probably still lives with his mum, has never had a girlfriend and wouldn't really know what to do with a woman anyway. Then he made his creepy request. However I don't think he looks "stereotypically paedophile" as there's no such thing.

If they cost £20k and last a few years then they would definitely be cheaper to buy than paying humans minimum wage. However it will get to the stage where we'd have to ask ourselves what is the point of humans?

Personally even if they were giving them away with a box of cornflakes I wouldn't want one. Far too creepy.

Same for me. I prefer the low-key creepiness of the scenes with Anita and the family to the action scenes involving Leo and the escaped synths.

They so should of used Hawkwinds Robot for the theme tune, the lyrics are perfect for this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToMIntAP3Gk
I, Robot missed a trick there as well.

How much of that did Mattie see?


Anita has already rejected the boy, and I don't see him trying to do it via hacking. I doubt she'd accept the father, either. If he tries to insist, she'll rebel, like Niska has.


They already exist, albeit more crudely and without the AI. In America they'd probably be protected under free speech, or something. Banning them ought to be controversial; given that synths don't have feelings it's a victimless crime. My own position is liberal on such matters. It's possible that in this alternative universe the UK is equally enlightened. Even if not, it'd probably take a while for the legal system to catch up, it might be difficult to enforce, and both that punter and Niska might not have known he was asking for something illegal.


I didn't see Homeland. For me Mattie has improved since we found out she is actively hacking the synths, and even though she may only be a script kiddie, she did catch onto the "sharing" thing. Similar I find Laura is more tolerable because she's right about most things, and although she's coming from a place of insecurity, I can empathise with her about that. I also quite liked the bit where she defended her daughter at school.

Just caught up with ep2. Am quite enjoying this because we don't have the answers and things are slowly being uncovered as we go. Wasn't expecting the cyborg bit with Leo which to me explains why he sees the synths far more as machines, even with their extra human emotions added. I think the guy chasing them is worried that of the machines evolve and become more human there will be even bigger issues than just unemployment for the youth.

Laura the mum has hidden the album with pics of her and her mum - why? Interesting how she sees Anita as a threat to her maternal abilities to her youngest and wondering how that relates to her relationship with her own mum if she's hiding the album.

Not sure how much of Anita's memory/humanity has been wiped - Niska could still remember her humanity after all. The question for me though is how Anita has been officially allowed to be sold on again if she was wiped? I can imagine a black market in synths for the sex trade and therefore Niska ending up where she did, but a synth as a domestic?

And yep, Vera is scary, just like a jailer, but I could see this happening with Govt wanting to keep costs of healthcare down and dictate to people on diet/exercise/health.

The William Hurt bits are also very reminiscent of the film 'Robot and Frank'.

I thought this episode was excellent - thought provoking, atmospheric and darkly humorous.

One gripe, though. I don't think even intellligent, conscious synths would have the same moral code as humans, not having evolved with us.

For example the blonde synth's disgusted reactions to the preferences of her client. Would she even resent being exploited, in the same way that a human would?

Nicely observed.

God, what a poor remake. I don't like it.

I think she would. She clearly wants to be a part of the family. In the first episode when they told her her name was Anita and got her to repeat it, she replied with "my name is Anita Hawkins". If having sex with the dad brings her closer to that goal I think she would do it .

That guy who took a beating is definitely a Cyborg. Thought he was truly Human until his electrical regeneration. I figure his Dad used him (a dying son) as a prototype or something?
Would that not depend upon her programming?


I disagree. I think she's subconsciously remembering having her own family; and her current situation reminisces that.

The daughter will eventually hack Anita, and find out about her status, and have her memories (which will be buried somewhere) restored.

No, she was floundering over how to reply when Anita knocking on the door provided an accidental diversion.

I don't think it's necessary to like every character in a show like this, especially if the plot hinges on their ambiguous nature.

I've seen the Swedish version too.

Really liked the second episode.

Actually didn't see the reveal about Leo coming. That was a nice surprise.

George partly created the Synths? There was an odd sense of something with his exasperation with Vera as well. Poor Odi being stuck in the shed.

Laura and Matilda continue to annoy me as characters and they really shouldn't. They're making me side with Anita more and more.

Peter's jealousy of his wife's Synth will probably get nasty as the series goes on.

Liked that the blonde Synth got out of that brothel. 8/10

Maybe that's a clue?
That she perhaps used to be a human?

Because when we see saw one of the synth's memories it showed Anita being happy and smiling. So she may have used to have been a human too. When you think about it the writers will have written it so that they freeze-framed that image for a purpose relevant to the story.

In fact I never saw it that Anita was 'broken' when in the family home, up to now I have seen it as her acting and pretending to be a compliant machine as a means for her true nature to remain hidden from the family. Perhaps because it's a good place to hide for now. Or perhaps being in a family unit is a trigger which is starting to make her 'wake-up' after having had a reboot or something.

Or another theory, that instead of being human at an earlier time, they may be synths who've had human memories implanted into them?

I'd be worried about a robot uprising. Both Niska and Anita (as Mia) rebelled.


I'd missed that. There does seem to be a hidden agenda with her.


My understanding is that Anita was wiped in an effort to fix her after they switched her on to have some fun. That didn't happen to Niska, so she still has everything, and has been faking it.

I don't think Anita is faking it. I don't think she knows she has free will, and is able to lie. She was captured as a "stray" (apparently that's a thing), and the people wiping her were presumably criminals rather than the company that makes them, and so they did a half-assed job. For now I'm going with the theory they wiped her memory but not her programming or personality. At some point she must have re-entered the market illegally; either the dealer that sold her is crooked, or his supplier is.


I don't think she cares about the family, except for the child. Most of the time she's doing what a synth would do, either knowingly (for camouflage) or unknowingly (because she doesn't realise she has a choice).


I don't know if she's that much worse than humans have been. I'd hate to be old, infirm and dependant on help like that, even at the best of times. There have been news stories about elderly people being abused in care homes by the people supposed to look after them.


It's pretty much a trope of this genre of SF that the machines are us. It's always a metaphor for racism, sexism and other human relations, and rarely a true exploration of AI. That said, it could be justified by saying the synths were modelled on humans, or by saying that any sentient being would care about its physical integrity and freedom.

Getting sick of seeing Paul Kaye playing the same long haired cockney character in everything at the moment. Is that his real hair or is he wearing a wig?

Interesting hypothesis. I wonder what the motive of the goverment guy (Hobb) who is hunting them are? According to the press mateirals he is " a mysterious man who is determined to uncover a secret before it can destroy humanity as we know it".

Maybe the secret is something like Frankenstien, with a scientist brining people back to life in synths?

First para - yes we've seen people abused by those meant to look after them, but that's a criminal act. Vera's actions don't seem to be criminal but state sanctioned as part of the care contract.

Last para - interesting point, been thinking about that aspect myself.

if the NHS expects her to live with elderly and disabled people to provide care as far down as diet levels, and if they can go out at night, then the synth has got to have alot more bedside manner.

It reminds me of Robot and Frank, which is worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y8YAMPFhk