Scripted series · Channel One
Better Than Us
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Paulina Andreeva
Arisa
16 eps
Kirill Käro
Georgy Safronov
16 eps
Olga Lomonosova
Alla Safronova
16 eps
Vitaliya Kornienko
Sonya Safronova
16 eps
Eldar Kalimulin
Egor Safronov
16 eps
Vera Kincheva
Zhanna Barseneva
16 eps
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Bars
16 eps
Irina Tarannik
Svetlana Toropova
16 eps
Arseniy Sidorov
Boris Toropov
16 eps
Fyodor Lavrov
Gleb
16 eps
Sergey Sosnovsky
Alexei Stepanovich Losev
16 eps
Kirill Poluhin
Pavel Varlamov
16 eps
Viktoriya Korlyakova
Irina Plescheeva
16 eps
Aleksandra Ursulyak
Marina
16 eps
Aleksandr Ustyugov
Vic Toropov
16 eps
Yana Enzhaeva
16 eps
Alina Zasobina
Zinaida
16 eps
Mariya Lugovaya
Lara
16 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Better Than Us actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Better Than Us reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E16
Episode 16
Cronos wins the financing to mass-produce Arisa bots while Maslovsky erases her memory. Gleb plots to blow up the factory and blame the Liquidators.
S01E03
Episode 3
Safranov plans to return the lost bot until Arisa saves Sonya's life. Vic's powerful father-in-law Losev negotiates a deal hinging on Arisa's return.
S01E01
Episode 1
Divorced dad and medical examiner Georgy Safronov fights to keep his kids. Cronos exec Victor Toropov acquires Arisa, an advanced robot prototype.
S01E05
Episode 5
Alla returns as the family tries to get Egor out of jail. Vic discovers Arisa's link to Safranov, to whom he has a past connection of his own.
S01E07
Episode 7
After trying to leave, Alla is threatened by Vic. Realizing that he and his family are guinea pigs, Safranov goes to the suspended Varlamov for help.
S01E04
Episode 4
Varlamov closes in on both of the Safranov men but has a better case against Egor for the Liquidator protest. Arisa tries to protect her "family."
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Andrey DzhunkovskiyDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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