Better Than Us
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| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Production location | Moscow |
| Cinematography | Ilya Ovsenev |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company | BYW Group |
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| Release | 23 November 2018 |
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.