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Postmodernism - When the media product deliberately break rules and challenge the audience. 

Hyperreality - Representations of reality being more perfect. 

Postmodernism is an impossible theory to define.

Anita is perfect because she doesn't exist. She does whatever you want, she cooks and cleans.

To what extent can the set episodes of Humans and Les Revenants be seen as postmodern?

• Anita is a binary opposition; the Hawkins family are normal with stereotypes such as Joe, their house is messy, nuclear family - stereotypical white m/c British family. The sci-fi genre is presented in Anita being wheeled into the shop (postmodern) switch of genre - sudden shift positions the target audience in a confusing mode of address. Warm tones of the family to cold tones and synth music - use of shopping centre setting is stereotypically consumerist, relatable. Signing a document - reflects Anita to be like a car or phone - exciting mode of address reflecting the culture of consumerism. Sophie - 'What if she's not pretty?' objectifying - Anita is like a doll. Anita is revealed to the audience through a montage of close-up shot, objectifying and sexualising - the audience also wonders this - stereotypically attractive. Symmetrical face, no skin imperfections, perfect hair it is long, perfect figure. Sophie has her mouth open in delight with excitable body language, Joe is eyeing Anita. Anita lives up to the stereotypes of East Asian women being obedient. Anita looks like she doesn't belong with glowing eyes and is standing and staring. Sophie - 'That means she's ours now' - allegory of Anita being a slave. Character of Anita with a hyperreal representation deliberately challenges the audience's perceptions of humanity. 
• Humans is a deeply complex and controversial TV show that targets a niche audience, to maximise profit.

Mise-en-scene

• Dark dim colours, muted and desaturated.
• No focus of faces.
• Binary opposition - girl playing in an abandoned area (horror). People kissing in by a grave of two people - alive and dead. Cross symbolism of death. Show is about sex and death - When Lena has sex, (orgasm - le petite mour (?) little death) Camille dies. Sex is creation, death is end. Complicated relationship of the themes targets a niche audience.
• MES of a dead dear suspended in a lake.
• Opening credits are highly conventional of the horror genre.
• Jumpscare of killer, pops up from the dark tunnel. Horror.
• Opening credits music is both typical with contrapuntal chill music, atypical as it has chill music. Atypical for a rock band, Mogwai, to create a soundtrack for a horror show.
• Repetition and difference.