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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 12
Better Than Us 12
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, Ramaz Chiaureli, Aleksandr Golubkov, Alexei Zakharov, Denis Burgazliev, Ksenia Kubasova
created by Alexander Kessel, written by Alexander Dagan
TV series Better Than Us
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Georgy (Kirill Käro) and his superbot Arisa (Paulina Andreeva) are on
the run with super hacker Lara (Mariya Lugovaya), but Georgy is sure once
he gets in touch with detective Varlamov (Kirill Polukhin), he'll be able
to clear his name and end this mess for good. However, once at the police
station, he sees Varlamov together with homicide detective Suponev
(Aleksandr Golubkov), who he knows to be a goon of the Cronos Corporation,
and he (wrongly) assume Varlamov's in league with them as well and leaves.
Lara has taken a liking in Georgy, and romance soon is in the air, much to
the dismay of Arisa. At the Cronos Corporation, CEO Victor Toropov
(Alekssandr Ustyugov) learns that the gouvernment have gone back on the
bid for Arisa, and have her compete with her opponents in another contest
- which is bad news as Victor doesn't even have Arisa anymore. So he goes
back to his original plan to have Arisa be impersonated by a remote
controlled replica. However, Bars (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), leader of the
Liquidators, learns about this from his mole with in Cronos, Katya (Ksenia
Kubasova), and plans to steal the replica in an attempt to let her commit
(or almost commit) murder so that all androids will be outlawed. Victor's
right hand man Igor (Pavel Vorozhtsov) meanwhile gets increasingly worried
about the whereabouts of Igor's wife Svetlana (Irina Tarannik), not
knowing that his boss has placed her in an asylum, and since Igor's also
secretly Svetlana's lover, he goes to extra lengths to find out where she
is ... It's a bit of a confusing episode, as it fails to
properly knot the threads together to a bigger picture within its own
context, but in the context of the series as a whole, it manages to push
things forward - even if at times things come across as slightly confusing
and not all character motivations make a lot of sense, seem to be just
there to keep the story going.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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