Better Than Us (2018)

Original title

Лучше, чем люди

Genre

drama television series, science fiction television series, dystopian television series

Country

Russia

Length

1 season, 16 episodes

Rated

12+

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 455 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a near-future Moscow, an advanced android designed to feel emotions enters a family's life. The humans around her must confront their own prejudices and fears as they struggle to protect her from those who want to exploit her.

futuristicemotionally chargedsuspensefulcoldmoralcharacter-drivenslow-burnunsettling

What happens

Better Than Us (Russian: Лучше, чем люди, romanized: Luchshe, chem lyudi, literally "better than people") is a 2018 Russian science fiction television series created by Andrey Junkovsky, about an advanced empathic android named Arisa. It stars Paulina Andreeva and Kirill Käro, as well as Aleksandr Ustyugov. It was produced by Yellow, Black and White in cooperation with Sputnik Vostok Production for the Russian state channel C1R. Netflix purchased it under the English title Better than Us, and it is the first Russian series presented as a Netflix original series. On 16 August 2019, the first season of sixteen episodes became available to stream in Netflix markets outside of Russia and China. A second season of ten episodes was planned to begin filming in Moscow and Beijing in the third quarter of 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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