Almost Human: Season 1, Episode 8 “You Are Here” (C+)
I’ll give this episode a partial markup for at least being future-facing in the development of its plot. A weapon designed to fire and without fail take down a target no matter what might be in its way is an innovative concept, and it’s certainly a dangerous one that would present enormous obstacles to law enforcement and crime prevention. A memory-wiping clinic is also an intriguing technological idea, and prompted the very superb idea of this episode’s would-be victim to go have her memories erased in order to convince those hunting her that she didn’t need to be killed if she couldn’t remember what she wasn’t supposed to know. Those two pieces aside, this episode’s plotting was rather basic and uncreative, which is a shame given that it was a true step up from recent episodes. What I didn’t like, however, was Kennex’s blistering frustration with the MX and his decision first to comically (not in a good way) cover the MX’s mouth and then shoot in it the face because it wouldn’t stop badgering him about how inferior Dorian was. That there are no consequences from Maldonado for something like that is both reprehensible and unbelievable, and detracts from this show’s credibility. It also doesn’t track that the MX would be so argumentative and negative when we’ve only seen them to be purely robotic and logic-oriented previously. I suppose the sexual tension between Kennex and Valerie is helpful to the show’s overall tone, but it seems a bit too drawn out and unrealized as of yet.
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