You know what's great about summer these days? No, not that you can go outside and enjoy the sunshine -- that's been around forever.

What's truly great is that in 2015, it's finally time to admit that summer television programming can be just as fruitful and engaging as its regular-season counterparts. Gone are the days when summer was only for "Judge Judy" and reality TV -- now, we have everything from "Orange is the New Black" to "Masters of Sex" to "Fear the Walking Dead" to AMC's fantastic new sci-fi thriller, "Humans," to keep us at that watercooler while "Game of Thrones" goes on vacation.

"Humans," in case you didn't know, is an adaptation of the Swedish hit "Real Humans," and it focuses on an alternate version of modern-day London that just so happens to have humanoid robots living in it as a servant class. Below, find out why "Humans' is going to be your next favorite summer show:

It's a moody, slow-burn of a thriller.

The first two episodes of "Humans" -- the ones given to the press for review -- introduce a gaggle of sleek, sexy humanoid robots called Synths, but the "Battlestar Galactica" comparisons can end there. "Humans" does have a core plot involving a mysterious young man named Leo (Colin Morgan) who is tracking down a group "boosted" Synths who can feel human emotions, but those Synths have all been scattered, so right now "Humans" is all about creating a creepy mood and making us think about our relationships with technology more so than amping up the action with robot fights and laser guns (though there is some punching).

The show is so far all the better for it, since watching how the main Synth Anita (Gemma Chan) adjusts to life with her new family of five, seemingly with her memories of her freedom time with Leo erased, is compelling. I'm sure the action with Leo chasing down Anita will amp up soon enough, but in the meantime, watching the shifting power dynamics in that family (which are peppered with comic moments of Anita being super passive aggressive towards its matriarch) is more than enough to pique my interest -- and the fact that Anita has been sneaking out at night and staring at the moon with the family's sleeping youngest daughter in her arms helps, too.

And while Anita -- whose level of humanity remains a mystery to viewers by the end of the second episode -- is adjusting to domestic slavery, there are plenty of other... unsettling... plot threads that seem to be knitting something pretty compelling. Like Anita's boosted Synth friend Niska, for example, who was in Leo's group as well but still has her memories intact, and is now being forced to work in a brothel, having sex with men who think she can't feel pain or say "no." And William Hurt's Dr. Millican, who helped invent the Synths and is now deeply attached to his old, outdated model, for seemingly no other reason than the bot reminds him of his dead wife. Last but not least there's Hobb, who is tracking down Anita and Leo's group and putting bullets in them, because the singularity.

Again, this is a whole lot of plot threads, but everything seems to be coming together quite nicely -- the big mystery is who made these Synths how they are and what they plan to do with them, and while "Humans" gets us there, it's raising a whole lot of interesting questions in the process.

It's sci-fi, but it's not too far off.

Much like with that other moody, British sci-fi hit "Black Mirror," "Humans" ups its unsettling factor with its present-day setting -- except in their version of the present-day, artificial intelligence is a reality instead of something that Elon Musk is talking about.

This undoubtedly pulls in viewers who would be turned off by the more "out there" (read: nerdy) elements of other sci-fi programming, but it also has the added benefit of holding up a not-so-black mirror on own own world. Specifically our relationships with technology, but "Humans" also explores how its characters -- who are probably not a whole lot different than you and the people you know -- treat those that we perceive to be an "other." The synths in the series haven't been around for more than a decade or so, so everybody seems to still be psychologically grappling with how to handle these beings who look like us, yet are supposed to be our slaves. It's weird.

It's diverse!

Want to know what I've always loved about sci-fi? That despite the fact that many think it's only for, about, and starring a bunch of white dudes, it's actually one of the most diverse genres around. "Humans" boasts Chan as the show's lead, but it also has two -- yep, two! -- black men on the winning badass robot team, as well as a female character who kills a very bad, bad man with her bare hands. (He had it coming.)

Two episodes in and it's already dealing with some complicated sexual issues with its domestic robots and their role in the family, but in a way that makes you think, not in a sexual violence-happy "Game of Thrones" way. (Except for the aforementioned bare-hands killing, which is startling similar to Arya's Meryn Trant situation).

At the end of the day, I like sci-fi programming that makes me think about ~ complicated ~ issues while also offering a healthy dose of thrill, and so far, "Humans" wins the "Orphan Black" award this year for nailing all of it. Check it out, kids.