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In their 2016 sci-fi miniseries Humans , screenwriters Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent gave us a protagonist that wasn’t quite human—and yet wasn’t quite robot. In 2023’s Better , they created corrupt police detective Lou Slack. After her son Owen almost dies, she attempts to make amends for her sins and take down her good friend Col McHugh, the powerful criminal she has been working for.
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“Your mind … is on my mind.” (Col McHugh, to Lou Slack)
I wondered when I began watching Better what my expectations were. For me it was mainly to check out the work of the writing team that had produced Humans , which is quite an epic scie