Filming has begun on the eight-episode second season of the sci-fi drama Humans. AMC and Channel 4 announced the start of production on season two and confirmed Carrie-Anne Moss, Sam Palladio, Marshall Allman, Sonya Cassidy, and Letitia Wright have joined the cast. Returning cast members include Gemma Chan, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Emily Berrington, Will Tudor, Colin Morgan, Ivanno Jeremiah, Neil Maskell, and Ruth Bradley.
Season one averaged 2.1 million viewers. Season two will premiere in the UK later this year and in the US in 2017. The series is written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, with Lewis Arnold directing. Vincent, Brackley, Derek Wax, Chris Fry, Henrik Widman, and Lars Lundström executive produce.
The Plot: Humans is set in a parallel present and explores what happens when the lines between humans and machines are blurred. The second season picks up several months after the events of season one, with Niska (Berrington) is still at large and in possession of the consciousness code. Her synth family, Mia (Chan), Leo (Morgan) and Max (Jeremiah), unaware of her location, are each trying to find their place in the world while Joe (Goodman-Hill) and Laura (Parkinson) attempt to mend their marriage. As unconfirmed reports of synths behaving inexplicably surface, the ripple effects of one simple yet seismic decision sees the past return dramatically and surprisingly to the door of the Hawkins house. Joe, Laura and the entire family are faced with a difficult choice that will put the family under an intense spotlight. As an emerging form of intelligent life – the synths – and an established one – humanity – fight for their places in the world, a thrilling multi-stranded narrative evolves which continues to ask: who has the right to determine what it means to be alive?
Carrie-Anne Moss will play Dr. Athena Morrow, a pre-eminent Artificial Intelligence expert who is driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness. Sam Palladio is Ed, a struggling café owner trying to breathe life into his family business. Marshall Allman plays Milo Khoury, a young Silicon Valley billionaire, founder and CEO of a leading technology company; intent on changing the world.
