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Luchshe, Chem Lyudi 13
Better Than Us 13
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, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Irina Tarannik, Aleksandr Patsevich, Vasiliy Butkevich, Aleksandr Golubkov, Sergey Tyessler, Alexei Zakharov, Denis Burgazliev, 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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As the Liquidators try to kidnap remote controlled fake Arisa (Paulina
Andreeva) they run into an ambush but figure if they have fake Arisa shoot
somebody in the shoot-out that ensues and make that video viral, they
would achieve their target anyway. At least that works out, but all the
Liquidators but Bars (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) are shot dead, and he's
incarcerated. And in prison, he's visited by Gleb (Fyodor Lavrov) who
tries to pressure him into admitting the video was a hoax (which it really
was). The real Arisa meanwhile shuts down in Georgy (Kirill Käro) and
Lara's (Mariya Lugovaya) hideout, and Lara manages to get in touch with
the makers of Lara via a link in her mainframe - and learns that she's a
bot that will protect her family at all cost, even at the cost of killing
somebody, and sees herself as the "wife" of the (male) head of
the family. And when Arisa is fully re-booted, she goes after Georgy, who
has meanwhile gone looking for his son Egor (Eldar Kalimulin). Egor and
his gravely wounded girlfriend Jeanne (Vera Panfilova) are thrown out of
their hideout and somehow run across Georgy - who insists on taking Jeanne
to a hospital, otherwise she'll die. At the hospital, Arisa and Lara catch
up with them - and the police arrives to arrest Georgy, Lara and Arisa,
but they in turn are intercepted by Supenov (Aleksandr Golubkov), homicide
detective who's actually a mole for the Cronos Corporation. And once at
Cronos, it doesn't take long before Cronos CEO Victor (Aleksandr Ustyugov)
tries to work out a deal with Georgy to handle Arisa again for the next
contest. Meanwhile, with the help of Victor's right hand man Igor (Pavel
Vorozhtsov), Victor's father-in-law Alexei (Sergey Sonsovskiy) finds out
that Victor has placed his wife Svetlana (Irina Tarannik) in an asylum and
plotted to destroy Cronos, and now Alexei plans to crush Victor instead
... It's one of these episodes that does more to help the
overall story along than tell a story of its own, and as such keeps one
wanting for more but leaves one dissatisfied at the same time. That said,
most of the narrative threads are still interesting, but some seem to be a
bit too drawn out ...
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