Started watching the new to Netflix Better Than Us last night . Pretty decent robot sci-fi. Russkie TV with 16 episodes. It's no Season 1 of Westworld or anything but it's a decent mash of robots, crime, the old Isaac Asimov's robot rules, evil corporation, cyber punks, dead beat dad, dogged detective, ******* teen son, beautiful but deadly robot etc. Only 2029 so no elaborate super future like Altered Carbon or the like. This near future isn't gritty. They did a good job or making the settings somewhat generic so it kinda easily fits an international audience, not going for Russian authentic , say, like Chernobyl or anything. Dad's driving an old Buick.
Russian, as noted, and be forewarned that's it is dubbed English but the dubbing is well done. I usually dislike dubbing for movies but for TV it's okay and this is done better than okay. On par with the dubbing for the Danish The Rain which was superbly done considering that show is sorta mediocre.
Keep in mind that Boxster's mantra is "even mediocre sci-fi is better than no sci-fi all" (updated and revised from my old "bad sci-fi is better than no sci-fi at all" that was dashed by SyFy Channel).
EDIT: Well that unraveled quickly. Went from maybe decent/okay to mediocre to "Should I even keep watching this?"
Russian, as noted, and be forewarned that's it is dubbed English but the dubbing is well done. I usually dislike dubbing for movies but for TV it's okay and this is done better than okay. On par with the dubbing for the Danish The Rain which was superbly done considering that show is sorta mediocre.
Keep in mind that Boxster's mantra is "even mediocre sci-fi is better than no sci-fi all" (updated and revised from my old "bad sci-fi is better than no sci-fi at all" that was dashed by SyFy Channel).
EDIT: Well that unraveled quickly. Went from maybe decent/okay to mediocre to "Should I even keep watching this?"
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