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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 7
Better Than Us 7
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, Vera Panfilova, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Fyodor Lavrov, Kirill Polukhin, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Aleksandr Patsevich, Vladimir Lukyanchikov, Sergey Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Golubkov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Sergey Tyessler, Ksenia Kubasova
created by Alexander Kessel, written by Alexander Dagan, Koshkina Marina
TV series Better Than Us
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Alla (Olga Lomonosova) has tried to run away but is intercepted by
goons from Cronos Corporation, and Victor (Aleksandr Ustyugov) pretty much
threatens her into submission. When Georgy (Kirill Käro), her ex she's
forced to live with for Cronos' campaign for their new superbot Arisa
(Paulina Andreeva) learns about this, he shows honest concern for Alla -
and meets up with detective Varlamov (Kirill Polukhin) to offer his
assistance in bringing down Cronos Corporation. Meanwhile, Arise is
trained in all sorts of things for the upcoming TV contest to win a
gouvernment deal, from cooking to disarming men, and she excels in all,
sometimes frightingly so. Georgy and Alla's son Egor (Eldar Kalimulin)
takes Arisa out for a spin to the bar of Bars (Aleksandr Kuznetsov),
leader of the android hating terrorist gang the Liquidators, and she
proves herself to be the perfect bartender - even if Bars is not too happy
about a bot in his bar. But Bars also has to learn that Gleb (Fyodor
Lavrov), backer of the Liquidators, has killed one of his friends. And he
doesn't know of course that Gleb's actually in Cronos' employ ... Frankly,
the good writing of the first few episodes seems to be gone, this episode
just spins a handful of narrative threads by and large independently from
one another, and not all terribly interesting (some actually seem little
more than filler material or try to make a point over and over), with
little actual story arc and no resolution. The story of the show as such
is interesting enough to still keep one watching, but at the same time the
show seems to start to slip a bit.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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