“mammoths”
Where and when to watch: On Okko — no date yet
daughter Julia (Maryana Spivak) father-retired carries Nikolai Nikolaevich (Yuri Stoyanov) Moscow, at least conditionally gives him a smartphone for inspection, but does not have time to tell about scammers from the “bank security service”. As a result, Nikolai Nikolayevich settles indefinitely in the apartment of his daughter and grumpy 15-year-old granddaughter Polina. (Elizaveta Ishchenko from “Alice Can’t Wait” and “The Fool Itself”): The attackers took the money from the sale of their own residence, there is no money to buy a new one yet. But Nikolai Nikolaevich is determined to find the scammers and return the stolen goods.
“Mammoths” is a fascinating audience-pleaser: a sweet generational comedy and the ideological heir to “Vampires of the Middle Band”, in that sense, it’s another series that makes you want artist Stoyanov to be your grandfather. The show has the everyday precision of an observational comedy (which will be appreciated by anyone interested in retirement-age parents; it seems like a reliable formula for success in the Pilot, which featured the show “A Friend for an Hour” last year, which won the audience votes), Stoyanov and Ishchenko’ ‘s great acting chemistry duet and he also manages to surprise by putting the local story on a detective track rather than staying within the safe frame of a sitcom.
“Kill Rita”
Where and when to watch: Premiere fall 2023
Rita (Evgenia Borzykh)A chemistry teacher at the Vyborg school is fired for having sex with a student. Her mother is the vice-president of the local government, so Rita’s regular job no longer shines here. Later, the girl gets a job as a cleaner at a nightclub, where she meets the wife of an influential businessman. Impressed by the degree of cleanliness (chemistry!), she O hires Rita as a permanent cleaner. Although things seem to be going uphill apart from the ongoing alcoholism, one day the girl is asked to get rid of a large blood pool instead of the usual consequences of crazy parties. After that, Rita herself is under the gun.
The series “Kill Rita” was shot by looking at the films of Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson, which clearly focused on action heroes, but there is a lack of feminine looks in it (and they even make fun of the man here): the director was Maria Agranovich (“Samsara”, “Heifers”), Evgenia Bogomyakova was responsible for the script (“You’re stupid”) and Victoria Ostrovskaya (“Heifers”, “Mutual Consent”), producers Nelly Yaralova, Maria Shukhnina, Yulia Arapova (all – “Survival Game”) and Yulia Razumovskaya (“1703”); In principle, there were also enough guys in this company, but for a change we will not list them. In To Kill Rita, Yevgenia Borzykh not only proves she can handle subtle dramas like Viktor Shamirov’s Big Second, but she’s also pretty confident in the middle of a tense thriller. The surrounding thriller itself does not lag behind: the show, rich with breathtaking plots (here we note the work of cameraman Dmitry Karnachik), regularly delivers surprises and hooks so many that there is no chance not to fall for at least one . But in general, of course, you come across everything.
“I will look”
Where and when to watch: on TNT and Premier – unknown
Alena Days (Daria Vereshchagina) Often it passes unconsciously: parties, alcohol, illicit substances – anything, just not thinking and feeling, because consciousness tries to return to the past, a terrible trauma mixed with a terrible sense of guilt. This continues until the man abandons Alena and Aldo’s dog escapes – apparently the only creature that loves her without the “but”. Then the girl will have a chance to forgive herself and return to life.
In Russia, with amusing regularity, in recent years they have been trying to remake the great Phoebe Waller-Bridge series “Fleabag” – as a rule, when it comes to an originally feminine story about a woman, it leaves men. of course mark it. Among the rather successful results are Roman Volobuev’s “Aurora” (at least among the screenwriters Elena Smolina), “I will call”, which, although shot and written by one person, seems to be heading in the same direction. Adam Alexei Ivanov (“Fizruk”, “Peace! Friendship! Gum!”): anyway, they haven’t played bingo for half an hour yet, and that’s already a success. The final role in the local appeal isn’t played by exactly how it’s made: the frame is forever filled with neo-noir neon and fog, while the great editing and creative camerawork keep it in good shape. But mainly, of course, everything depends on Vereshchagin’s magnetism – one should think that in the upcoming fiction “One Hundred Years Ahead” she will be an excellent Alisa Selezneva, but here, as it were, she perfectly portrays another Alice. Searching for the white one – the dog, not the rabbit – falls into the darkest of rabbit holes.