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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 5
Better Than Us 5
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, Sergey Sosnovskiy, Kirill Polukhin, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Victor Solovyev, Irina Tarannik, Viktoriya Korlyakova, Ivan Kosichkin, Sergey Kolesnikov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Sergey Tyessler, Sergey Gubanov, Ksenia Kubasova
created by Alexander Kessel, written by Alexander Dagan
TV series Better Than Us
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Victor Toporov (Aleksandr Ustyugov), head of the Cronos Corporation,
tries to present his remote-controlled and thus fake superbot to the
minister, but when he learns that all the signals are jammed inside the
ministry, and thus the remote control wouldn't work, he has the bot run
into traffic and be run over as a desparate measure to save face. Good
thing then that his enforcer Gleb (Fyodor Lavrov) has gotten his hands on
the real superbot, elusive Arisa (Paulina Andreeva), even if capturing her
cost him his car and almost his life as well. There's one problem, every
time she's turned on, Arisa tries to kill Victor as he's a threat to
Georgy's (Kirill Käro) family. Meanwhile Georgy makes every attempt in
the book to get his teenaged son Egor (Eldar Kalimulin) out of jail, and
it seems Georgy's nemesis inspector Varlamov (Kirill Polukhin) has finally
found a way to pin a few crimes on Georgy (which Georgy has actually
committed) - when all of a sudden the whole investigation is dropped, and
both Georgy and Egor are free to go ... because Cronos Corporation needs
them. Now as it turns out, back in the day Victor destroyed Georgy's life
and made him lose his license as a surgeon after he didn't manage to save
Victor's son's life - something that was next to impossible to begin with.
But to clear Arisa's mainframe of the intent to kill Victor, he needs
Georgy's assistance, and for that Georgy asks for his old life back,
including his wife Alla (Olga Lomonosova), and the original Arisa as a
bonus. Now that's something Victor is actually able to grant, but it soon
becomes clear Alla's not all that thrilled about being with Georgy again,
their daughter Sonya (Vitaliya Kornienko) has grown to prefer Arisa to
Alla, and Arisa's dangerously jealous of Alla ... I have to
admit, this episode is a bit of a letdown (even if still on a high level)
as it tries too hard to tie things up - to make Victor responsible for
Georgy's miserable life is just taking things one step too far, and giving
him that perfect life back (with all the makings for a major disaster)
seems just forced. One sure would have hoped things were brought to a head
with more narrative subtlety - but still at least this episode sets up
great new possibilities for future episodes ...
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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