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Automata

Automata

20187.41 Season6 EpisodesReturning Series

Overview

In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. The surviving automatons are given basic civil rights, living among us as an underclass of social outcasts, the victims of human prejudice and strict laws governing their existence. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America.

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Top Cast

Basil Harris

Basil Harris

Sam Regal

Doug Jones

Doug Jones

Carl Swangee (voice)

Jen Taylor

Jen Taylor

Verna Southern

Brandon Marino

Brandon Marino

David

Ted Rooney

Ted Rooney

Roscoe

R

Richard Carmen

Tommy Egan

Jack Sneed

Jack Sneed

Leroy

About Automata

Automata is a crime, sci-fi & fantasy series that first aired in 2018. it stars Basil Harris, Doug Jones, Jen Taylor. In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. The surviving automatons are given basic civil rights, living among us as an underclass of social outcasts, the victims of human prejudice and strict laws governing their existence. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his incredibly smart automaton partner, Carl Swangee. Together, they work to solve the case and understand each other in this dystopian America.

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