But there is no good in hell. Well, what do you expect from detective series? No development( of the case, characters, situations), absence of important or interesting scenes, no intrigue? You eager to see how bad guy randomly appears closer to the end? Why no intrigue? Because every time this pack of losers gets anyone, they find so much problems with proofs and sane motives, that they don't even know what to do. And you know what is even better? When they have it all(problems with arguments), right at the start, when they caught someone, it just becomes so much worse when they find new bunch of facts that contradicts with their version... About the characters, yeah, they look realistic, actors are doing their job, but our 3 main guys are just so anti-likable and anti-sympathetic that when this combines with plot and absence of development it just turns into toxic blast of s***. Depicted world is quite realistic as well, but aside from us hating all of this "bad people"(let's use this friendly description) it makes nothing. Oh, yeah about the characters: 1st one is the most arrogant d-word, that is as much unlikable as it is even possible, 2nd one is weak in will, typical soviet with again wild perception(an behavior) of life, 3rd one is broken woman, that just swallows everything, because it was like that all the time(with her). And what do we have here? 8 episodes of 0 development(nothing substantial with investigation, proofs, with intrigues, with bad guy), massive push back from all the characters and the world(which again are authentic, but it does not make them nor interesting or involving, neither sympathetic or touching(on you sense level)). Literally, take a list of paper with you, and try to write the development episode by episode, and even if you can write something down, does it lead us anywhere? Last 2 episodes, where we just have all the info randomly appear? We never had a chance to know, that's why i think something is wrong with the "detective" side as well. You can say that, the actors is something good in this series, but their roles are so narrow, that we can't even have look on spectre of emotions. BTW those characters at some point(because of the time skip) have ANNOUNCED personality "development" that you can notice by looking at their... that you can notice by capturing their changed... by their different beha... no, it is all false. Example: Yankovsky always either in full raging gopnik mode, where he is swearing and throws at everyone or either "i have problems in real life, you know my wife..."( BTW it is so hilarious that Yankovsky plays raging gopnik here, he played exactly the same role before in Text, and now he plays gopnik in "Word of Lad", what an actor...) Nothing ever changes his character and on the top of that all, in the end he acts like a counter of himself(why?) So the only good things i can really commend are small in meaning, but surprising in their existence: ambient music/music here is quite harmonic, adds to the atmosphere, done with attitude and the guy, who picked frame perspective is also quite competent(probably it is hard to notice for someone, but some shooting moments look fresh and involving)
