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Humans - Breakfast scene

• Many mid and over-the-shoulder shots, reflects an intimate family scene.
• Close-up shots of Anita cleaning the table - feminist theory.
• Hyperreality - Large hotel-style breakfast, maid.
• Stereotypical middle-class, white British family - targets audience by including this type. of family for relatability with the aspect of hyperreality/escapism.
• Binary opposition of costumes - laid back pjs v professional maid uniform.
• Binary opposition - m/c white human v w/c East Asian synths.
• Lighting - highkey lighting v lowkey lighting where Anita is typically seen.
• American-British co-production Channel 4 and AMC.
• Setting location - near London - South England - appeal to a wider audience.
• Ensemble cast - appeal to a wider range of audience - maximising profit.
• Post-colonial theory - hierarchies of culture - Anita is represented as a slave through the use of a contrasting costume of the Hawkins family - bland and blue, practical.
• Allegory of slavery - Anita being represented differently and as an 'other'. 
• Hawkins family are hegemonic and stereotypically white m/c.
• Mattie - moody, swears, aggressive - stereotypical representation of a teenager. 'Tom Boy' not stereotypical.
• Toby - stereotypical teenage boy, sexually motivated and awkward.
• Joe - stereotypical dad, tells bad jokes.
• Laura - stressed out, stereotypical mum.
• Setting - dining room stereotypical of middle class.
• Use of natural colours connotating everyday life and sophisticated home-life of a middle-class household.
• Luxurious wide-spread of food indicates that the family are well-off.
• MES - artwork on the walls connotes wealth and sophistication.
• Nuclear family - hegemonically and conventionally 'perfect' family. 
• Binary opposition to Anita who cannot have children.
• Star appeal - Gemma Chan, Katherine Parkinson - reinforces a widespread appeal to different audiences.
• Anita wants a mother-daughter relationship especially with Sophie, plays the 'mother' role but without the positives. Anita does stereotypical 'maternal' tasks of cleaning and cooking. She is too perfect and annoys Laura - hyperreal.
• Anita offers the Hawkins family a hyperreal version of life, a perfect world that wouldn't be practical although mundane.