8.451 minSeason 1 • Episode 16
LatestCronos wins the financing to mass-produce Arisa bots while Maslovsky erases her memory. Gleb plots to blow up the factory and blame the Liquidators.
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.
Acting
Paulina Andreeva's unsettling stillness as Arisa — uncanny valley perfection
Production
Gritty Moscow future that feels depressingly plausible
Paulina Andreeva
Arisa
Kirill Käro
Georgy Safronov
Olga Lomonosova
Alla Safronova
Vitaliya Kornienko
Sonya Safronova
Eldar Kalimulin
Egor Safronov
Vera Kincheva
Zhanna Barseneva
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Bars
Irina Tarannik
Svetlana Toropova
Arseniy Sidorov
Boris Toropov
Fyodor Lavrov
Gleb
Sergey Sosnovsky
Alexei Stepanovich Losev
Kirill Poluhin
Pavel Varlamov
Viktoriya Korlyakova
Irina Plescheeva
Aleksandra Ursulyak
Marina
Aleksandr Ustyugov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russia's first Netflix Original, greenlit before the 2019 streaming restrictions hit — a fascinating snapshot of pre-war Russian genre television aiming for global reach.
Arisa's design deliberately echoes Soviet constructivist aesthetics merged with contemporary humanoid robotics research — the show's visual team consulted with actual Moscow AI labs.
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