Moscow Noir: Season 1

I'd like to check it out...

It's like they've stretched the movie by eight to seven...sooo necessary in places.

@Langolier: BaibaKo is already there

- What keeps you, a Swede, here in Moscow? Women? No, probably a man. And drugs.
- Actually, I'm here because I have no choice.

Except that even our neighbors, who are not the most cheerful and sunny, find Russia so depressing that it is too much even by the standards of northern cinema. The color scheme is black and yellow; all Russians are played by Lithuanian actors and filmed on local post-Soviet nature - the local government has provided subsidies for filming. That's probably how it looked at 99, but in 2019, the viewer would also need to put some kind of nerve, and that's the problem. Critical.

Good dialogues, and Darude and Guests from the future are playing at the oligarch's party. You're sitting there remembering the hits of the late 90s, and somewhere along the line you don't want to go back to the series.
https://t.me/Welcome_to_the_NHK/290

The Swedes filmed their "Russian detective" last year, but it never got to us in its normal form - scandiscope does not prioritize subs, and the available giveaways have a taste of betting and other delights of fandab.

1999. Tom Blixen from Pioneer Investment Bank has been living in Russia for five years, but admits he doesn't understand it. The guy is lying a little - he understands more than the locals expect from a foreigner, and actor Adams Paulsson speaks pretty well.

- This is Russia. The mess is the only stable thing here.

A friend asks for help with the sale of some shares, the family is on the verge of bankruptcy.

- A hospital has been opened nearby, doctors are needed. I'll go there. They pay like at a gas station, but where to go.

The shares turn out to be securities of the Neftnik concern, a black gold mining company in Western Siberia that was closed under the Soviets. What is strange for a Swede is that half of the owners do not appear in the register, and those who do live well, but they do not want to talk about shares, and even more so they do not want to sell. Those who decide to shed light on the situation catch headshots.

I really wanted to get away from Moscow Noir, expecting strong cranberries, the Scandinavians are not bound to us by any unwritten non-aggression treaties in the cinema, and unlike America, they are filming about direct invasions of the Russian army in their countries. But in Noir, there are no ideas in the spirit of Bloodstock and a Coin, and there's not even much to be offended about.