# Better Than Us **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042 "2019-08-22T06:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/1 "2019-08-22T06:39:19Z")
Heads-up on [this new series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_than_Humans) on Netflix. A Russian SF series. I just stumbled on and watched the first episode and it wasn’t bad. 16 episodes available. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/2 "2019-08-22T15:15:24Z")
Haven’t watched it yet. Did you watch “Humans” from BBC? Looks really similar. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/3 "2019-08-22T15:39:44Z")
Watched _Humans_. After one episode of _Better Than Us_ I can say that it is broadly similar to _Humans_ in that it includes household robots, some but not all of which look very human, but that could be said about lots of TV series and movies. You can see elements of \*A.I. \*and _Blade Runner_ and _Ex Machana_ if you look for them, too. The first episode opens with a child reciting Asimov’s three laws of robotics, so right away you know that those laws are probably going to be broken at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/4 "2019-08-22T16:27:43Z")
Is it dubbed or subtitled? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/5 "2019-08-22T17:54:24Z")
Soft-subbed. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/6 "2019-08-22T18:20:00Z")
Dubbed too. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/7 "2019-08-22T18:42:35Z")
I tried but the dubbing was to distracting. Is it an extension of Irobot? I stopped watching when the dad put his daughter in the car. I was thinking he’s probably going to get into a wreck and a robot is going to save him instead of his daughter. Thus igniting his hate for robots. Didn’t stick around long enough to find out if that was the case. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/8 "2019-08-23T05:27:01Z")
Interesting that everyone in Future Russia wears [these](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-you-want-to-know-a-cicret/). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/9 "2019-08-23T05:32:26Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Is it an extension of Irobot? If you are asking if it is an extension of a short story collection by Isaac Asimov, then no. If you are asking if it is an extension of a Will Smith movie, then no. If you are asking if it is an extension of the company that makes the Roomba, then no. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/10 "2019-08-25T02:17:21Z")
I just watched the first episode. The dubs were distracting, so I switched to subs and that worked fine. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be worth watching until Arisa started doing her (it’s?) thing. I’m definitely going to keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-than-us/839042/11 "2019-08-28T12:29:53Z")
Binge watched the whole thing. Thanks for the suggestion! It was quite good I thought, with a lot of twists. I liked the Russian setting and the fact that there was very little Russian propaganda in it.