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A Russian Sci-Fi Drama that has a broken family becoming the owners of robot that a corporation, the police, and terrorists are after.

The show stars Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Karo, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Olga Lomonosova, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, and Sergey Sosnovsky.

It began airing in Russia in 2018 and can be found on Netflix.


Tropes for the series:

  • Alliterative Name: Sonya Safronova.
  • Cowboy Cop: Det. Pavel Varlamov knows he's right and doesn't need any "rules" getting in his way. When Da Chief orders him to stop his quixotic crusade to find Sergey's murderer, he just ignores him and continues investigating Georgy, goes to Georgy's home without a search warrant, and tries to intimidate him when Arisa mentions that Pavel didn't present one. He's right that Georgy destroyed evidence for a bribe and is linked to the killer, but he doesn't know half of what's really going on.
  • Roadside Surgery: Georgy has to perform this on Zhanna after she gets shot in the leg. Deconstructed, as despite all the necessary medical supplies having been gathered and Georgy (who is a former surgeon) doing everything possible to sterilize the environment, the wound still gets infected and Zhanna has to be taken to the hospital anyway (despite it being against her wishes) since she will die of sepsis otherwise.
  • Tagline: "A dysfunctional family accidentally gets a killer robot".
  • Taking the Kids: Alla is Georgy's ex-wife, and they have joint custody of their children. Alla wants to move to Australia to be with her husband, but she wants the kids to come with her, which Georgy won't go for. She tries to spy on Georgy to get evidence that he's an unfit parent, and also tries to simply escape to Sydney with the kids on multiple occasions (possession being nine-tenths of the law).


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