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We had the opportunity to speak with the cast and producing team of AMC’s Humans this past weekend at New York Comic-Con. Fans will have a chance to meet Sam Padallio’s Ed Hawkins and reconnect with Tom Goodman-Hill’s Joe when the show returns in February 2017. But until then, here’s a sneak peek of what we can expect from their characters in the upcoming season.
What can you guys tell us about what your characters have going on in season two?
Tom: “Joe is trying desperately to save his marriage and also is trying to work through the children’s welfare. The impact of the synth family coming into the family life means that they’ve decided they’re going to move house and try to make a fresh start, try and just live without a synth for a bit, but that’s out of their control, so very quickly they come back into that life, mainly because Mattie has not lost touch, so everything kicks off straight away again, but Joe is really kicking against it. He’s kicking against it at work as well and just is desperate to try and claw back some semblance of what he sees as the normal/standard family life. The fact is, a life with synths is a normal life now and he’s just struggling to come to terms with that.”
Sam: “For me, I play a character called Ed Hawkins who is…”
Tom: “No you don’t.” (laughs)
Sam: “Ed is a young guy struggling to run the family business that’s been left and he runs this little beachside café so the scenery is a nice departure from some of the urban landscapes we’ve seen in the first season. We have a bit of countryside and fresh air. Ed is looking after his very sick mother and trying to keep his business afloat, so he’s struggling with it. Because of that, he hires Anita to come and work at the café and help him balance life and so he…it’s really one of his first interactions with a synth. It’s just a very interesting dynamic. He treats her as a human since he’s a bit of an awkward funny guy, so he ends up cracking a joke or two that he realizes
What can you guys tell us about what your characters have going on in season two?
Tom: “Joe is trying desperately to save his marriage and also is trying to work through the children’s welfare. The impact of the synth family coming into the family life means that they’ve decided they’re going to move house and try to make a fresh start, try and just live without a synth for a bit, but that’s out of their control, so very quickly they come back into that life, mainly because Mattie has not lost touch, so everything kicks off straight away again, but Joe is really kicking against it. He’s kicking against it at work as well and just is desperate to try and claw back some semblance of what he sees as the normal/standard family life. The fact is, a life with synths is a normal life now and he’s just struggling to come to terms with that.”
Sam: “For me, I play a character called Ed Hawkins who is…”
Tom: “No you don’t.” (laughs)
Sam: “Ed is a young guy struggling to run the family business that’s been left and he runs this little beachside café so the scenery is a nice departure from some of the urban landscapes we’ve seen in the first season. We have a bit of countryside and fresh air. Ed is looking after his very sick mother and trying to keep his business afloat, so he’s struggling with it. Because of that, he hires Anita to come and work at the café and help him balance life and so he…it’s really one of his first interactions with a synth. It’s just a very interesting dynamic. He treats her as a human since he’s a bit of an awkward funny guy, so he ends up cracking a joke or two that he realizes
doesn’t land. It’s quite nice the way he…he doesn’t really see her as a machine, as a servant. He has an empathy with her from the beginning. It’s a really cool dynamic. She’s sort of hiding in plain sight again and we’ll see where that takes the two of them.”
Do you have any favorite jokes from the first season? I know you have a lot of dad jokes.
Tom: “Yeah. We love dad jokes. From the first season? What was it? It was Anita with…I can’t remember…what are you doing for dinner? Hopefully, it’s microchips. I think that one was…it was really bad. It was really bad. They’re not a strong point. That’s… I don’t know if I can think of one now. That’s terrible, because Season two is a lot darker. We’ve been going a different way. Less comedy.”
Sam: “But a little more fun as well. There’s a couple of moments. Ed works in a town. He runs a café, but he also restores furniture, and he’s a bit more of a physical guy, so he hasn’t really interacted with synths over this period. It’s more of a family trait to get everything done by himself, but there’s a few moments where Ed’s quite excited by this chair leg he’s restored and takes it to Mia and…” what do you think? Check out my wood.” There’s a few moments of…he realizes that… “feel this! Feel this chair leg,” which obviously doesn’t…it sort of lands with Mia but I think he’s an idiot.”
Are those purely from the script?
Sam: “That actually was in the script.”
Do you have any favorite jokes from the first season? I know you have a lot of dad jokes.
Tom: “Yeah. We love dad jokes. From the first season? What was it? It was Anita with…I can’t remember…what are you doing for dinner? Hopefully, it’s microchips. I think that one was…it was really bad. It was really bad. They’re not a strong point. That’s… I don’t know if I can think of one now. That’s terrible, because Season two is a lot darker. We’ve been going a different way. Less comedy.”
Sam: “But a little more fun as well. There’s a couple of moments. Ed works in a town. He runs a café, but he also restores furniture, and he’s a bit more of a physical guy, so he hasn’t really interacted with synths over this period. It’s more of a family trait to get everything done by himself, but there’s a few moments where Ed’s quite excited by this chair leg he’s restored and takes it to Mia and…” what do you think? Check out my wood.” There’s a few moments of…he realizes that… “feel this! Feel this chair leg,” which obviously doesn’t…it sort of lands with Mia but I think he’s an idiot.”
Are those purely from the script?
Sam: “That actually was in the script.”
harder than he ever thought, basically.”
Joe was a little tough to like at the end of Season one. Do you think it will be easier or harder to like him in Season two?
Tom: “I don’t know what you mean. (laughs) He’s the nicest guy in the whole show. He didn’t do anything.”
Sam: “Yeah!”
Tom: “He didn’t anything wrong. He was just using his new device to have the most capability! Yeah, he’s tough to like, very hard to get over and obviously, that’s the main sticking point between Joe and Laura, the whole issue with Anita/Mia. There is a nicer Joe this time. He genuinely does want to make it all work. He’s appropriately remorseful. He now understands what he’s done is wrong but at the back of his mind is still this feeling that she was just a toaster. He can’t escape. He’s against his own instincts.
He is really, really struggling to face a life in which there aren’t always going to be synths around and that just impacts massively on his relationship because Laura is rightly concerned with their welfare. It’s always going to be a problem. He does see…he does his best and he really is a stay at home dad now, for reasons you’ll find out. He really is doing his best. He really pulls the strings for it. I think he’s more likable.”
Joe was a little tough to like at the end of Season one. Do you think it will be easier or harder to like him in Season two?
Tom: “I don’t know what you mean. (laughs) He’s the nicest guy in the whole show. He didn’t do anything.”
Sam: “Yeah!”
Tom: “He didn’t anything wrong. He was just using his new device to have the most capability! Yeah, he’s tough to like, very hard to get over and obviously, that’s the main sticking point between Joe and Laura, the whole issue with Anita/Mia. There is a nicer Joe this time. He genuinely does want to make it all work. He’s appropriately remorseful. He now understands what he’s done is wrong but at the back of his mind is still this feeling that she was just a toaster. He can’t escape. He’s against his own instincts.
He is really, really struggling to face a life in which there aren’t always going to be synths around and that just impacts massively on his relationship because Laura is rightly concerned with their welfare. It’s always going to be a problem. He does see…he does his best and he really is a stay at home dad now, for reasons you’ll find out. He really is doing his best. He really pulls the strings for it. I think he’s more likable.”
