Better Than Us

[MisterGlass]

Starting a new thread for anyone who would like to discuss Better Than Us, the Russian series about robots that debuted on Netflix in August 2019.  The series stars Paulina Andreeva and Kirill Karo.  There are currently 16 episodes which Netflix has listed as a single season.

I finished watching this today.  I knew little about the series and had no expectations, and came away very impressed.  There is explicitly some inspiration from Isaac Asimov, but the show goes off in its own interesting directions.  The world building is good, and the effects are better than I would expect from most genre television.  The lead actress is exceptional at playing a robot.  The show kept subverting my expectations, and taking less obvious directions.  I am surprised at how much was packed into these episodes.  There were a lot of twists and turns and relationship drama, which would sometimes put me off a show.  But the actors are good and I became invested in the characters, and anxious to see what would happen next.

I'd call it a solid scifi show.

[LeGrandElephant]

We’re watching this on Netflix and near the end of the first season. I wish there were episode threads because so much is going on! But I don’t want spoilers, so I guess I’ll be back once I’ve finished it. 

[LeGrandElephant]

Well, I guess almost no one else is watching it. I finished it and I highly recommend it. We watched it with the English dub, which was very well done. 

[MisterGlass]

I'm glad someone else out there enjoyed it. 

I watched the subtitled version, which was a bit odd.  It seemed like every other episode was subtitled by someone different, because the spelling of the names changed a lot.  It was a challenge to keep track.

[LeGrandElephant]

On 7/14/2020 at 4:33 PM, MisterGlass said:

I'm glad someone else out there enjoyed it. 

I watched the subtitled version, which was a bit odd.  It seemed like every other episode was subtitled by someone different, because the spelling of the names changed a lot.  It was a challenge to keep track.

I had the subtitles on with the dub. I did notice one character was named Egor and another one named Igor, and at least in the English dub there’s no pronounciation difference, so that was confusing.