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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 10
Better Than Us 10
Russia 2019
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, Mariya Lugovaya, Sergey Sosnovskiy, Kirill Polukhin, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Irina Tarannik, Aleksandr Patsevich, Viktoriya Korlyakova, Vladimir Lukyanchikov, Ivan Kosichkin, Sergey Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Golubkov, Alexei Zakharov, Denis Burgazliev, Sergey Gubanov
created by Alexander Kessel, written by Alexander Dagan
TV series Better Than Us
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After the botched up TV competition [last
episode], everyone wants to get their hands on Arisa (Paulina
Andreeva) the superbot, who has of course escaped with Georgy (Kirill
Käro), who is supposed to hand her over to the Liquidators to exchange
her for his wife Alla (Olga Lomonosova) and daughter Sonya (Vitaliya
Kornienko) - but a first handover doesn't pan out as the Liquidators'
leader Bars (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) demands her to be turned off (for his
own safety), and Georgy wouldn't know how. Waiting for another chance for
a hostage exchange, Georgy calls his contact at the police station,
Varlamov (Kirill Polukhin), but Varlamov has meanwhile gotten teamed up
with homicide detective Suponev (Aleksandr Golubkov), who's actually an associate of Gleb (Fyodor
Lavrov), the Cronos Corporation's muscle. So the homicide detective drugs
Varlamov, then sneaks up the hostage exchange in his place, with him and
Gleb boobytrapping the scenery. But neither has taken the powers of Arisa
into account ... Meanwhile Victor Toropov (Alekssandr Ustyugov), CEO of
the Cronos Corporation, sees his back against the wall - and is actively
looking to skip country and leave the mess behind for others to sort. A
very tense episode that has a really strong story at its core that pushes
on the overall narrative quite a bit but also sports a story arc all of
its own which has the audience at the edges of their seats pretty much
throughout and also gives them a (sort of) resolution to the present
goings-on. Very nice.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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