Better than Us

Better than Us
The right side of a damaged female android's face (on the left); as its counterpart on the right, a man's face with stubble
Russian-language poster
Genre
Created by
  • Andrey Junkovsky
  • Aleksandr Dagan
  • Aleksandr Kessel
Starring
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes16[1]
Production
Producers
  • Vitali Shlyappo
  • Eduard Iloyan
  • Aleksei Trotsyuk
  • Denis Jalinskiy
  • Mikhail Tkachenko
  • Eduard Gorbenko
  • Aleksander Kessel
Production locationMoscow
CinematographyIlya Ovsenev
Running time50 minutes
Production companyBYW Group
Original release
Network
Release23 November 2018 (2018-11-23)
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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[2] for the Russian state channel C1R.[3]

Netflix purchased it under the English title Better than Us, and it is the first Russian series presented as a Netflix original series.[4] On 16 August 2019, the first season of sixteen episodes became available to stream in Netflix markets outside of Russia and China.[5] A second season of ten episodes was planned to begin filming in Moscow and Beijing in the third quarter of 2021.[6]

  1. ^ "Лучше, чем люди". kino-teatr.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 9 February 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Создатели "Кухни" и "Лондонграда" снимают сериал о роботах" [The creators of "Kitchen" and "Londongrad" make a series about robots] (in Russian). kinometro.ru. 24 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Сериалы 2018-го: Трудно быть Ботом..." (in Russian). kinopoisk.ru. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  4. ^ Kozlov, Vladimir (11 January 2019). "'Better Than People' to Become First Russian Series Under Netflix Originals Banner". The Hollywood Reporter.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference flix was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Frater, Patrick (17 November 2020). "Netflix Series 'Better Than Us' to Get China-Backed Indie-Produced Second Season (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 10 December 2020.