{"id":92375,"date":"2016-10-28T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=92375"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:00:07","slug":"humans-series-2-whats-next-for-the-hawkins-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/humans-series-2-whats-next-for-the-hawkins-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans Series 2: what’s next for the Hawkins family"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we head into Series 2 of Humans<\/strong><\/em>, the cast of characters is gradually expanding: among the new additions are Carrie-Anne Moss as Dr Athena Morrow (described as \u201can eminent AI scientist working on a slightly different AI angle\u201d), Marshall Allman\u2019s Milo Khoury\u00a0(\u201cA young Silicon Valley billionaire who is also very, very interested in this technology, who hires her to work on a secret project\u201d), Sam Palladio as Ed, “a struggling caf\u00e9 owner trying to breathe life into his family business”, plus Sonya Cassidy and Letitia Wright.<\/p>\n

While some characters won’t be back, we are at least reassured by series co-creator Sam Vincent that the Hawkins family will be back. \u201cThere was no question of ever not finding a way to bring the Hawkins back, because they ground the story, they humanise the story; they\u2019re the way into the story,\u201d he enthuses. \u201cThey\u2019re wonderful characters and actors, but that was one of the challenges: to bring them back in a way that was organic and real, and tied them back into the synth characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Katherine Parkinson is quick to extoll the benefits of working in your pyjamas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While other characters struggle with the bigger questions of consciousness and AI, Katherine Parkinson (who plays Laura, the mother of the family) tells us that Series 2 sees the Hawkins family going through some much more grounded issues after we\u2019ve addressed the slight weirdness of interviewing her and Tom Goodman-Hill (Joe Hawkins) in their dressing gowns. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in costume in pyjamas it tends to make you a bit sleepy \u2013 it\u2019s a strange thing!\u201d she laughs. \u201cThey\u2019ve moved house, Joe gets made redundant, but in other ways Laura\u2019s in a slightly better place, because I think she got some resolution last series, and they\u2019re going to couples therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir counsellor is a synth!\u201d Goodman-Hill tells us. \u201cWhich they initially hate the idea of, and then find out that she\u2019s rather good at her job!\u201d We saw most synths in more functional roles in the first series, but Series 2 shows us that they are becoming more integrated into society. \u201cYou start to see new synths who have a completely different mindset,\u201d explains Goodman-Hill. \u201cAnd you see them working in different environments and starting to impinge on areas of human labour and work that they hadn\u2019t before. They are now beginning to be capable of taking over other roles in society that we haven\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Humans<\/em>: Series 2 will air on Channel 4 from Sunday 30 December 2016. For all the latest TV news, pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cast on what Humans’ first family are up to in Series 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":92380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,7,3,207],"tags":[4510],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Humans-Series-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}