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Russian TV series “Psych”, directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, 2020. Having read the full picture, I did not understand why the name used a singular, in my opinion, psychos there to one degree or another almost all the characters. The protagonist Oleg (Konstantin Bogomolov) is a psychologist who is popular in wealthy circles, is engaged in psychotherapy, being hung with problems from head to toe - starting with such popular childhood traumas of upbringing by an unloving mother, also a psychologist, though specializing in sexology, and ending with the disappearance of his wife. He is stuck in this disappearance and tries to “solve problems” with drugs and alcohol, for the use of which he blames his clients at sessions. That is, he knows “how to do it”, but he neglects it. In psychotherapy sessions, he solves the problems of clients, outside the sessions he looks like the most difficult patient, and in need of psychiatric help rather than psychological help. In principle, other people's problems do not affect him at all, he is fixated on his own, he does not care about the rest. His mother Kira (Rosa Khayrullina) is a cold calculating woman, who is also not worried about her son’s problems, she has a new lover, and due to the fact that the son after the disappearance of his wife does not want to live in his apartment, but settled with her, there were problems with intimate relations, and she one day just puts him out the door with a sex doll, which she gave her son instead of his disappeared wife. Oleg has a kind of friend, or rather, this is the ex-girlfriend of his wife, who at one time introduced them, his former patient Vera (Helena Lyadova) is a thing, an upstart from the periphery, a lover of vocabulary, who exchanged her rich husband for a young lover and lost everything, sitting on the neck of everyone in a row, starting with the same Oleg. And all sorts of different characters. The idea of the series itself is quite interesting, the actors are interesting, but the embodiment, in my opinion, turned out to be somewhat confused, and the end is somewhat artificial. In the course of the action, some doubts arise about what is happening and what the characters are doing, among whom it is difficult to find more or less decent people. Of course, there are no perfect people, but watching their behavior was sometimes unpleasant. Of the actors, I want to note Bogomolov himself, who was very well suited to the role of the main character (I read that the role was originally written for him), Lyadov and Menshikov, the others also quite correspond to their characters. I wouldn’t say I liked the show, but I watched it with interest.