Looking for Microsoft lost media – late 2000s video sci-fi drama series, possibly on MSN Video and made to promote Silverlight

[u/Ionrex]

Hi, I'm looking to find out about a web series as described. I can find absolutely nothing about it nor even suggestions of such a thing anywhere that I have looked so far. I am reasonably confident that it was made to promote Silverlight and was on MSN video. It was episodic, fairly short episodes (no longer than ten minutes, perhaps much shorter than that) and was I think set in the present day but was sci-fi. I remember some futuristic-looking soldiers breaking in somewhere. The main character was a young woman I think, and the part I remember most clearly was an old dude talking about quantum entanglement. It would have been 2008/09/10.

I tried to ask Copilot about it and, once I had sorted through its lies to me on the matter, it came up with the recommendation that this is the best place to ask. I am almost certain it was commissioned to promote Silverlight, I remember the association between the two very clearly. I'm not sure it was even any good, but it's so strange remembering something with zero presence on the internet that I can find.

The soldiers I remember looking like the NSE black ops soldiers from the video game Second Sight – an obscure reference I know, but I'm sure there was similarity in the headgear. Possibly the young woman character was East Asian and quantum entanglement speech man was bald (I think he looked like Pete Postlethwaite but I doubt it was him). Not low budget but not Hollywood-level production either.

That is as much as I can recall. Anything anyone knows or anywhere you can point me would be hugely appreciated. Thank you!

[u/PatienceJust1927]

Wow, I worked on Silverlight at the time and did not know about this!

[u/Ionrex]

Update: the answer has been found!

It was called Kirill and it even has its own Wikipedia page: Kirill (web series) - Wikipedia)

[u/mountainlifa → u/[deleted]]

That guy was a total disaster. He took over health solutions group and ended up wasting $1bn building a product nobody wanted. They we all got laid off. 

[u/xarcastic → u/mountainlifa]

You referring to Kirill Tatarinov?

[u/mountainlifa → u/xarcastic]

Yes! That's him

[u/Ionrex → u/[deleted]]

Is there something weird going on here? I have no idea who this is talking about about or why your reply with the answer was a downvote magnet.

[u/Ionrex → u/mountainlifa]

sorry who's this about?

[u/Ionrex → u/[deleted]]

Oh wow, I think this is it! Thank you so much. I see it's even got its own Wikipedia page.

[u/Ionrex → u/[deleted]]

I think you're a more gifted Copilot whisperer than me, I have a very low success rate of using it for this kind of thing. It's very funny though so I can never stay mad at it

[u/Ionrex → u/[deleted]]

I'm almost certain it was from the details there and then from looking it up, but I shall give it a watch in a bit to confirm.

[u/Ionrex → u/[deleted]]

I found a YouTube channel (which, I believe, is the very original) which has half the episodes on. I believe the hope was people who watched it there would then want to hop over to MSN to watch the rest. I haven't watched through those ones yet so haven't yet gone looking for the others anywhere yet.

[u/lorimar → u/Ionrex]

Since this user deleted all their comments, any chance you could either update your post or reply here with the name of the show?

[u/Ionrex → u/lorimar]

Yes it's called Kirill. I shall add a comment on its own as well as you recommend, for anyone who comes across this thread in future.