Obychnaya zhenshchina

I've never been into series a great deal, and now I know why: it just eats up too much ( life) time. Even if one is not that hugely impressed it does draw you in and you want to see how it's ending.

About this one in particular: I would describe it a typical kind of tv fodder. The most interesting aspect about it is that it seems to describe life in nowaday russia fairly accurately - someone is always counting huge wads of cash and there seems to be corruption just about everywhere. I am surprised that they got away with this - censorshipwise. It's not overly violent and there is - surprising for it beeing about a madam running a ring of prostitutes - not a blink of nudity. Maybe that' s why.

The acting I found generally pretty excellent and it makes a nice change to have women pulling the main strings. From this aspect it is almost something of a feminist sort of film.