Television series
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A spoiled Moscow millionaire, arrested for reckless driving, is forced into a year working as a police officer—a punishment worse than prison from his perspective. This Russian drama watches him crash into a cynical unit of detectives who resent him instantly, then slowly, painfully, discover that actual work might mean something. It's *Trading Places* meets *The Wire*, played entirely straight.
Should you watch it?
Watch it if you like a fish-out-of-water story where a spoiled character slowly gets his hands dirty, and you enjoy a Moscow police drama that runs on class friction and workplace grudges more than stunts.
Skip it if the romance and office rivalry crowd out case work, so if you want a tidy crime solved in each episode, the slow, soap-leaning pace will try your patience.
What it asks of you: Settle in for a long run of roughly 52-minute episodes, and let its changes build slowly rather than arrive in sharp turns.
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