'Humans' News, Plot Spoilers: Showrunners Talk About Taking Cues From the Original Series
AMC's hit science fiction drama TV series "Humans" aired its season finale on Sunday and fans have been wondering what to expect when the show returns for Season 2.
Speaking on this matter are executive producers Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, who revealed whether or not the revived drama will take cues from the original Swedish series ("Real Humans").
"It'll be a further departure. That's not really a deliberate choice to look at the second season and say, 'We're going to do something really different.' It's very much a reflection of the organic process of adapting something," Vincent told TV Line.
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"I think for Season 2, we'll be looking at the original more as a … treasure chest than a blueprint. They have so many wonderful and brilliant ideas, and even if their stories are going down a different track, we can just cherry-pick everything that works for us," he continued.
The media outlet went on to probe about the possibility of more anti-synth movement in the upcoming season.
"One of the ways we're going to approach it is to move the world on a little bit — and I'm not talking jumping ahead years or anything. Just a few months. But what I mean is the synths in society: We're going to the next leve l… They've gone a bit deeper," the showrunner explained.
"They've moved into new areas of employment. They've moved into new areas of our personal lives … You're not coming back to a status-quo society. Things are developing fast, as technology does in all areas. There's lots of new, society-wide effects which we're going to tell stories in," Vincent teased.
The second, eight-episode series of "Humans" will return on air in 2016.
