based on Phillip K. D!ck's work
While anything involving robots or androids is likely to contain echoes of Asimov, this show is inspired by the work of Phillip K. Dlck, which is often more subtle and quirky than Asimov. In particular, the movie Blade Runner provides a lot of visual inspiration, and was itself based on "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?". And the plot of the first two episodes comes from "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", which was hacked into the Ahnold movie Total Recall.
The show gets better as it goes along, and still had plenty of scope for new plot and character developments when it was cancelled, I think prematurely.
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