When Does Almost Human Season 2 Come Out? Is It Renewed?

What is Almost Human about?

Almost Human pairs Karl Urban's weathered detective with Michael Ealy's android partner in a cop procedural that works best when it leans into the genuine oddness of their dynamic. Urban plays Kennex as someone still shaking off the fog of his coma, bitter about the robot mandate and skeptical of Dorian from the start. Ealy's android isn't the cold logic-engine you'd expect from sci-fi. He's curious, prone to misunderstanding human behavior, and earnest in a way that makes him vulnerable. The show lives in the space between them, watching two cops who should not work learn to trust each other while solving murders in 2048.

The tone is uneven but interesting. Almost Human wants to be both a straight crime drama with real stakes and a lighter procedural where the android partner delivers deadpan observations. It doesn't always balance these moods well. Some episodes lean too hard into comedy, while others forget the premise entirely and just solve cases. What the show does have is a core strength: the chemistry between Urban and Ealy feels earned, and their partnership develops with actual texture. By the end, you believe they've come to rely on each other, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.

Fox canceled it after one season, and audiences had started tuning out by the finale. Critics were mixed, some praising the leads and the odd-couple foundation while others found the plotting thin and the tone wavering. The 7.9 rating on IMDb suggests it built a real if small group of fans who appreciated what it was trying.

Almost Human sits awkwardly between shows like Fringe, which balanced procedural and mythology with more discipline, and buddy-cop comedies that commit fully to the joke. It's closer to the former but never quite finds the confidence to stay there. What lingers is less the cases or the world-building than the specific way Dorian learns to be human by watching someone broken try to be human too.

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Is Almost Human renewed or cancelled?

Why was Almost Human cancelled?

Almost Human arrived on Fox with the kind of premise that should have worked: a seasoned detective paired with an android partner, giving the network a chance to mix procedural crime drama with sci-fi undertones. Karl Urban and Michael Ealy had chemistry, and the show had enough plotting ingenuity to maintain a 7.9 rating on IMDb. But chemistry and critical goodwill do not translate to ratings, and Almost Human's viewership never materialized at the level Fox needed it to be.

The show's thirteen-episode run in late 2013 and early 2014 revealed the fundamental problem. Fox didn't have the patience to let it build an audience, and the ratings trajectory suggested the network's skepticism was justified. Science fiction procedurals occupy an awkward middle space: too serialized for casual viewers who prefer standalone episodes, not serialized enough for the fans who crave ongoing mythology and development. Almost Human tried to be both. Its air dates also worked against it, landing in the crowded fall schedule and then limping into early 2014 without a clear sense of whether the show was a commitment or a holding pattern.

Ultimately, Almost Human was cancelled because it couldn't attract the sort of broad audience Fox's advertising model demanded. The show had its admirers, but admirers on streaming platforms and message boards don't move the needle for network television. Fox made the calculation that the time slot and production resources would be better spent elsewhere, and that calculation ended the show before it could prove whether a second season might have changed its fortunes.

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