Hercules Says Bad Robot's ALMOST HUMAN Is A Pretty Bad Robot Pilot!!
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I am – Hercules!!
Somehow J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production concern ("Alcatraz," "Person of Interest," "Revolution") has come up with one of the least entertaining TV robots in the history of TV robots.
Adding to our disappointment is the fact that "Almost Human" was created by J.H. Wyman, longtime showrunner of Fox's much-superior Bad Robot sci-fi epic "Fringe."
Forget Peter Weller as Robocop. Michael Ealy's near-future law enforcement android Dorian isn't even as much fun as the robot (or robotic) hovercycle cop who chased down the preteen James Tiberius Kirk in Abrams' "Star Trek." If you were hoping for something like Brent Spiner's Data with a badge you can forget that too. Dorian will make longtime TV viewers pine even for the mechanical man who warned Will Robinson and Zachary Smith of Danger!! on a weekly basis.
But Dorian may still be a bit more compelling than "Star Trek's" Karl Urban, whose John Kennex detective character is a bland pastiche of maverick-cop clichés. (Presented as the human half of a human-robot cop team, Kennex is actually a Steve Austin-y cyborg courtesy of the talking robot leg he gets around on.) The great Lili Taylor is similarly and sadly familiar as Kennex's squad-room superior, playing straight and boring the same sort of character Andre Braugher is milking for big laughs over on Fox's "Brooklyn Nine Nine."
The pilot's procedural elements are a snooze, following the familiar path of a detective out to avenge his slain partner.
Fox did not make available to critics the series' second episode
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