Humans - Exam Question

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So I jumped the shark a little bit here in my answer...

plan:

Both conventional and extremely unconventional:
Conventional to the Artificial intelligence subgenre
-The syths are an allegory for the contemporary audience (more specifically British demographic) and their anxieties to the rapid advancement of technology. Reflective of the modern zeitgeist.
Humans aired initially 2015
Steve Neale - Repetition and Difference
Lisbett Van Zoonen - Feminist Theory
Laura Mulvey - Male Gaze
Polysemic
science fiction is always an allegory - but Humans follows an Alternate present subgenre over something on the nose as Star Wars/Trek.
Automata
Binary/Diametric opposition
commodity fetishism - 
The other
Whore/Madonna
Scenes to refer to: Breakfast Scene and Strip club
Complex representations of gender

To what extent does the first episode of Humans conform to conventions of the science fiction genre? [15] (25 minutes)

Within the first episode of 'Humans', released in 2015,  we are introduced to an alternate present reality that holds much verisimilitude with our own. Albeit with the addition of synths serving as an allegory reflective of the current zeitgeist regarding the anxieties of the British contemporary audience towards the quick advancement of automata and Artificial Intelligence.

In many respects, 'Humans' is generically conventional, as to the A.I. subgenre of science fiction, hot off the heels of an admittedly conceptually similar sci-fi media text 'Ex_Machina' released a year prior to the series' debut. In consideration to Steve Neale's repetition and difference theory, where the two differ, and 'Humans' lacks conformity to the genre, is its complex introspection of the issues surrounding the representation of gender, as well as commodity fetishism, two things the vast majority of popular sci-fi texts like the Star Wars, for instance, wouldn't scratch the surface of.

The show delves into this idea of inspecting gender performativity via the perspective of the Hawkins family, a clear representation of a hegemonic middle class, white British family and their reactions unto the synthetic human, Anita. For reference, we may look to the breakfast scene in the first episode in which the family is served by her. The visual aesthetic here is representative of the hyper-reality that the show takes place in, believably mundane, without any unique sci-fi mise-en-scene aside from the actor of Anita, Gemma Chan. Who first of all draws attention by the binary opposition towards the character of Laura, she is a hegemonically attractive East-Asian woman that is a model in likeness, with perfect motherly traits whereas Laura is representative of the opposite to some degree. The framing of the scene's cinematography fitting the two direct opposite sides of the screen. Normality versus 'the other'. 

In conclusion,  the first episode of 'Humans' is majorly conventional towards the Artificial Intelligence subgenre, but to science fiction as a whole, both aesthetically and thematically for the most part is subversive and unconventional as a media text in these regards.

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