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Obychnaya zhenshchina (2018)
A cheap attempt at (and plagiate of) Breaking Bad / Saul
If you've enjoyed Better call Saul and Breaking Bad, I'd advise against watching this. Throughout the show unless you switch off your brain completely, you keep asking yourself "why are they doing this?" and the only answer is "so the show can go on with characters overcoming unrealistic self-imposed difficulties". Parts of the plot are so generic and americanesque that they do not fit in within Russian reality at all, but are otherwise easily recognizable. Hotel clerk woman is a copycat of Saul's girlfriend for example. Script is filled with such glaring holes, that even taking it for a dark unfunny comedy doesn't help. Actors seem smarter than the script and it appears you can sometimes see them cringe... Bortich is her usual blank-o-wood expression range, same for the protagonist's what'shername daughter.
But it wouldn't be complete as a pile of ... excitement without feminist angle. Pretty much all men are incapable flaccid trash, while all women are almighty... Makes me not ever want to let a pregnant woman take my seat on a public transport - she is apparently stronger than me and doesn't need it... Hell, she could probably just walk any distance...
It's filmed alright though.
Next (2020)
Gets worse as it goes... Evil AI for kids and white man bad...
Basically like most US series these days a decent premise is turned on its head with diverse casting, poor script, political message where blm assaults are presented as white nazis assaults (we even get suicide bomber white nazi running about with very mean face)... Evil AI is only as smart as would enable the script to go on. FBI has about 5 agents by the way so when you go to investigate life-on-Earth threat level, you usually send agent Salazar and a semi-sane Steve Jobs... But that's fine because the best nano-tech research facility at night just has one crippled faux Hawking to guard it all... And anyway you can delete all the security footage by pressing one button somewhere so people don't see agent Salazar guerrilla smash nanotech, I guess.
This isn't a comedy, by the way... But it's not as bad as they come these days so I might even finish watching to the end.