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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 1
Better Than Us 1
Russia 2018
produced by Andrey Dzhunkovskiy, Eduard Iloyan, Alexander Kessel, Vitaliy Shlyappo, Ruslan Sorokin, Mikhail Tkachenko, Aleksey Trotsyuk, Denis Zhalinskiy for Yellow, Black & White/Netflix
directed by Andrey Dzhunkovskiy
starring Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Käro, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Olga Lomonosova, Eldar Kalimulin, Vitaliya Kornienko, Fyodor Lavrov, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Aleksandr Patsevich, Vladimir Lukyanchikov, Ramaz Chiaureli, Vasiliy Butkevich, Maria Yavorskaya, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Sergey Tyessler, Denis Burgazliev
created by Alexander Kessel, written by Alexander Dagan
TV series Better Than Us
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In the not too distant future, robots have taken over most human labour
- which is only supposed to make life easier ... Medical examiner Georgy
Safranov (Kirill Käro) sure has seen better days, ever since the divofce
from his wife Alla (Olga Lomonosova) he has tried to keep the family
together - which is hard enough when one's having a 16 year old son, Egor
(Eldar Kalimulin), as it is - and now he learns that Alla wants to
emigrate to Australia and taking Egor and their young daughter Sonya
(Vitaliya Kornienko) with her. Of course he tries to fight this, even to
the point of kidnapping his own children. Meanwhile in his professional
life he investigates the murder of a security officer at the Cronos
Corporation, the lead company when it comes to robot sales. Eerily enough,
the murder seems to have been committed by a robot - which would mean a
breach of one of the key laws of robotics. The story behind the murder:
Victor Toropov (Aleksandr Ustyugov), head of the Cronos Corporation, has acquired a very special robot,
Arisa (Paulina Andreeva) on the black market without really looking into
her system, and when said security officer was trying to feel her up, she
killed him, then made an escape. So there is a potential killer robot out
there. On the lam, Arisa makes the acquaintance of little Sonya - who
eventually invites her into her father's house ... A pretty
great first episode, as it succeeds both in world-building (something of
key importance in the sci-fi genre) and tells a well-structured story that
comes to a resolution at the end of the episode, one which also ties the
separate narrative threads together. And add to that a directorial effort
that really translates the artificiality of its future world onto the
screen, and a strong key cast, and ... well, you're pretty much sucked
into the series. It stands to hope that it keeps up its high quality
standards though.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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