Family contract Attractive that the series involved the famous actor family - Menshova-Gordin, people are not only talented, but also intelligent, that for actors in general quality is rare. To see their work together - the temptation is still the same! - Directors calculated correctly. On a good account and performers of other main roles - Victor Dobronravov and Nastya Zadorozhnaya. That is, the whole company promised, if not delight, then complete satisfaction. And in principle, there are no complaints about them - they played the script perfectly. Another thing is that the script turned out to be, as often happens, three with a minus.
In fact, the series is such a detective sitcom - the same characters in the same scenery, with crudely mounted inserts of "points to the open air". But since each series is a new criminal case, this feature is not very striking. Strongly striking is the lead to each new case, up to the repetition of the same phrases. In this sense, it is very unlucky to another good actor - Ivan Shabaltas, who plays the most important boss and distributes the task to the detectives in almost the same phrases - the writers in this place did not bother much. And although Menshov and he tried in every possible way to "refresh" the crusty text, they did not much to avoid stamps, that is, they did not have enough variety for 40 episodes. And that really messed up the script. The investigations themselves turned out to be diverse and, in some places, even exciting, which, however, did not add to the dynamics of the series, on the contrary, created an atmosphere of comprehensive routine, stressing that detective work is, first of all, painstaking work and only in exceptional cases - a place for feat.
Little worked on the plot and "scenes from the personal life" of the heroes. Especially the main couple, which, as in life, was a family. Deep personal drama put before Mensheva and Gordin special "limiters" - to live and work under the yoke of tragedy. What came into clear contradiction with the detective dynamics and if Gordin was able to show that his hero, resigned to a heavy loss, continues to live on, Menshova showed that her heroine can not escape from the atmosphere of hopeless grief. However, the techniques that she uses - constant heavy sighs, sluggish, as if through strength, voice, withdrawing into herself - after the first ten episodes are already very boring and interfere with viewing. You understand the playfulness of the situation and its cliché - right before your eyes. And this is a big disadvantage, first of all, to the screenwriters who did not paint the image more thoroughly, and to the actress who did not find enough colors to convey the state of her heroine. It is a shame - Yulia Menshova actress in principle is good ... but, as they say, on the old woman there is a breakdown.
The final surprised. On the one hand, he hinted at curtailing the work, killing one of the heroes. On the other hand, he left a powerful reserve for the future, revealing serious details of the family drama. But, alas, the continuation never followed, which almost crossed out the whole story.
4 out of 10