Lost Art of Loyalty

By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT

There is a futuristic cop show starting soon on Fox called “Almost Human,” produced by J.J. Abrams.

It’s set in the year 2048, and it features an attractive black robot who is highly evolved, logic-based and designed to be as human as possible, partnering with an attractive white guy, who is all too human, prone to saying the wrong things and getting into scrapes.

Fox is billing the show as the first Robromance.

But, of course, it’s not the first. We have one in the West Wing.

When Barack Obama partnered with Joe Biden, Biden felt it was his mission to inject humanity — or “intensity,” as Hillary Clinton called it — into Obama’s android air. The ebullient political veteran was eager to help interpret the erudite Obama to Joe Sixpack.

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