Sarik Andreasyan has a very ambiguous reputation in the film industry, primarily as a director, because if Andreasyan-producer has decent projects, and he can earn money objectively, then the director has become famous for such “masterpieces” as “Office Romance 2”, “Pregnant” and “Defenders”, the average score of the latter at Kinopoisk did not even overcome the mark of 3 points. About the series “Chikatilo” with the demonic Nagiyev, in a bad sense striking with its naturalism, cruelty and “sweating” necrophilia in the frame, I am generally silent. Honestly, there were certain doubts about “Life on a Call”, an ambiguous opinion was left after the first season, but after watching the second, I have to state (so forgive me the true connoisseurs of beautiful cinema): I liked it.
“Life on a Call” began as an erotic drama, with a lot of intersperses of various levels of perversion of sexual scenes, which were shown in the maximum permissible detail by the director, as if reminiscent of those very concerned oligarchs, he here ridiculed. Like an exploit wrapped in a glossy phantom licked frame of a modern expensive series. With no less ecstasy, the beautiful rich life of escorts, their perverted clients, the owner of the agency himself was demonstrated. Some even saw in this the propaganda of the ancient profession as a quick way to earn huge money (yes, and “The Word of the Kid” promotes teenage violence), the detective line seemed to pass a certain dotted, somewhat reminiscent of the recent film adaptation. The chicks. The main character, or rather the antihero, caused a bit of empathy, but given his type of activity and philosophy worked out by the profession and experienced life difficulties, he turned out to be a character rather repulsive, a kind of criminal dealer who got along in his vicious world, little different from the dashing 90s, and Priluchny himself portrayed this intelligent bandit very confidently, although according to the script much was not required from him.
The second season suddenly jumped into the territory of a pure edge detective, akin to the second season of “Majeure” (parallels with the central storylines are revealed by the naked eye, and not only by me), which somewhat distances the show from the typical erotic drama, although the sex does not seem to have decreased, but it has become less intrusive and perverse. The habitat of the protagonist was shown in detail in the first season, so the second focused primarily on the revenge of the main character. Priluchny-Magic himself finally turned into a kind of Igor Sokolovsky from "Major" - not a policeman, but the same character, approach to business, female love, some knighthood even, and respect for him as the most human representative of a vile profession. But this transformation, in my subjective opinion, has only benefited the series. Along with Priluchny, the hero of Nikita Kologrivoy has also changed - infantile, psychotic, but angry like Kashchey from a recent hit. The artist was given more screen time, and he worked to the full program, creating a rather interesting image, albeit not winning in comparison with his works from Life, Black Spring or Words of a Kid. And in tandem with Priluchny, they look like relatives after “In the Cage”, where Nikita also had a rather strong role, radically different from the usual bandits. The notorious scoundrels convincingly played as Alexander Yatsko (Ruzhinsky), Kirill Zhandarov (his chain dog from the UK), Sychev (a nauseating pervert, the role is akin to Nogiev-Chikatilo), Alexei Kirsanov. In the sequel, Alexander Gradov was added to them (funny, Priluchny’s dad in “Major”) and Alexei Grishin as the roofing brothel of the opera. The latter generally looks like infused in the roles of notorious bandits from the 90s or corrupt security forces, you do not even need to try especially, but plays back to the full. I confess honestly, his captain Semyonov even became one of my favorite characters, and the final scene with his participation was the final argument in favor of watching the upcoming sequel, although there was nothing special there.
The transformation of Vasilina Yuskovets, familiar from Ivanov-Ivanov, disappointed Natalia Rudova (although she was never a great actress), purely outwardly pleased Maria Dmitrieva. Separately, I want to mention Olga Smirnova (“Trepachi”) and Evgenia Yarushnikova, whose heroine in dramatic terms fully revealed in the second season. Well, do not lie that Yarushnikova is one of the most beautiful girls in the series (if not the most), for her nudity is also a plus.
And, of course, this image is modern with the appearance of expensive, glossy, brilliant, neon, but so cruel and dark inside Moscow, in which real problems and issues are solved at the same criminal level of the 90s, solved by money, power, mutual responsibility, blackmail and connections. People from high society are in fact accustomed to communicate in the language of strength and mutual benefit, which Andreasyan illustrates through the eyes of Priluchny.
I also want to praise the musical accompaniment, most of which was recorded specifically for the series. But the HBO track “Not in Love” on the final credits is just a heartbreak. . .
As it became clear from the above, Andreasyan managed to collect a really good caste of worthy artists, develop the project into something more than a sex adventure, achieve the necessary atmosphere and suspense, and pleasant nostalgia for the second “Major” coupled with this, everyone simply obliges to wait for the continuation. The rating remains positive.
The script is bad, the operators are three-footed. Actors are tolerable. The erotic scenes are disgusting. Maybe that's the idea, I don't know. From a pimp constantly trying to make some "right employer" - that's generally some nonsense. Well, the storyline is kind of idiotic... Sometimes this is not hidden in the film. I've endured 4 episodes anyway. And good.
The second season is a head taller than the first, but... .
If you ask me now about Sarik Andreasyan, one of the first things that comes to mind is "Life on a Call." Here he acted as a producer and director-director. And overall, it was good. However, the first season leaves a strange aftertaste. It was boring. The setback is cheerful, powerful, but then everything descends into a too tedious story of the destruction of successful success.
And, by the way, in the first season, the hero of Pavel Priluchny is successful, simply because he is cool. And even Vietnamese flashbacks do not help to understand how he became such a successful guy, being only a patient in flashbacks.
Without describing the first season for a long time - it came out quite crumpled. And this, by the way, in a 20-minute series. Let’s move on to the second season.
The second season was longer in timekeeping. It's been almost 40 minutes. We still did not leave a large number of erotic scenes (which, by the way, is almost the fourth part of the entire series). But these scenes are beautifully shot, nothing can be said.
Now for the script. Serial arches of one-off heroes themselves have not become more interesting, but what has changed? The main branch of the main character has changed. Now we see him trying to make his way back. And we see what he has to do. However. However. It's so messy and messy that almost everyone gets away with murder. And it's just because. No police, no one. Even when an ex-policeman is killed.
But! What good is it? In general, the only thing is to watch the series “Major. Season 2” again, but with a different title of the series. No kidding. Take a look and compare it here and there. The same bow in the form of cool costumes (only here it is a little better, even double-breasted appeared with a wide lapel - wooh!), the same scenario (revenges a person through mind games, legal setups, etc.), the same approaches with the main work and the main arch of revenge (in "Major" Priluchny simultaneously worked in the police and solved cases. And even the car joke is exactly the same! In "Major" he was given Gelic, here Toyota 300. And there, there are jokes about the inconspicuousness and size of the car in Moscow.
In short, this is a clean copy of “Major 2”. I really like the first two seasons of Majeure. And to see the same thing, under a different sauce a little - quite good after how much (almost 7 years from the second season of "Majeure"?).
The truth itself Priluchny in places still says strangely. Something with diction, like. And some actions don't look natural. It was much better in the "Major".
The first season score was 6 out of 10. The rating of the second season is slightly higher. However, the overall score will remain 6 out of 10. Not a bad passerby from IVI. In general, like all the other series. IVI has some content issues, for me. They lose in all respects to competitors.
- disgusting, just disgusting dialogue. Well, people don't talk like that! that doesn't make the characters look alive. Priluchny constantly puffs his eyes and inflates his neck, a constant pathos, from which he is sick after the first series. I lacked a live character, not Vin Diesel at the minimum.
- bad sex. I'm sorry, it's not plausible.
Disgusting makeup and dresses on some girls. In the yard of 2023, even prostitutes do not make up or dress like that, alo.
- only bad clients. Surely there are ordinary customers who just need sex, not a sex party in the style of Caligula.
- whitewashing the main character. He's a pimp. He sells girls. All. No matter how he treats them, he sells women like meat.
Pros
+Frankly, that's a plus for me. After all, we are looking at an escort, not a children's fairy tale.
They showed the real cruelty that can happen and certainly happened to the girls of this profession. Everyone who romanticizes an escort and seems like it's a dream job - here's violence, beating, treating both thing and animal. Read the stories of real escorts and you will be surprised how close it is to the truth.
If you remove the first minus, I would bet ten. But this pathos and this dialogue in the style of quotes by Jason Stetham from Vkontakte is unbearable to listen to. From this cardboard are not living emotionless characters.
When they wanted it normal, but it turned out as usual. .
To be honest, I was intrigued by the trailer for this series and thought maybe I should pay attention to it. I’ll start off with the pluses.
Pros:
- Music. There isn’t much of it, but when it comes, it gets better. The title track flew into my head like home. . .
- Picture. For everything about filming, my respects. Operating work, angles, landscapes and everything that can be called technical - cool.
- Vladimir Sychev. He is the only actor who tries to play the role he has. The character, of course, disgusting, but he played it cool. . .
- Raising such a sensitive topic as the escort, the reasons for entering there and everything that follows. . .
The pros, perhaps, ended there, but the minuses - the hands are not enough to count, and from the pros to the cons flow, which is called ' Smooth':
Cons:
- Ignorance of the subject as such. Seriously, I got the feeling that Sarik Andreasyan was filming the series based only on something ephemeral, far from escort, just like humanity is from the Sun. A person does not distinguish an escort from prostitution (and the difference is, at least, that meeting a prostitute always implies sex, and an escort can earn hundreds of thousands for just having dinner with a rich uncle and not having sex). And this is not enough, he thereby misunderstanding the difference equates one to another. These poor girls are treated like not every prostitute on the panel. This I still keep silent for the actresses who play ' night butterflies' - all as for the selection of equally silicone - the Chinese are easier to distinguish from each other, it is easier for her to God.
Potentially interesting theme of a single father who is trying to somehow build a relationship with a teenage daughter - drained into the toilet. How many interesting things could be taken out of this. . .
Clients ' The Wizard' are shown either as finished drug addicts or as preoccupied perverts whose sexual preferences indicate mental abnormalities in the rich. Seeing from the big fortunes the roof tore to the edge... Although I think that the services of such young ladies for such grandmothers are used by quite adequate people who, before putting their organs in them, are reasonably interested in certificates for STDs (at least, I would do just that, because for the same money that I, as a client, pay her FOR HOUR, I could buy a used car and I would not like to get anything more from her than pleasure).
- Favourite. Not a fan or a hater of this actor, but to praise him, with his hand on his heart, nothing for. His character is spelled out quite well, but the actor walks the entire series with a facial expression that cannot be described otherwise than: ' The muzzle of brick asks'... Most of the actors walk around with stone faces. It's not what I expect as a viewer.
Summing up, the series for the first season is average. Great fellows who raised this topic and showed it, but at the same time immediately buried their own attempts to change something in the minds of people who still interfere with prostitutes and escorts in one pile, thereby mixing white with red. Potential, but they all leaked.
Alexander Ivanovich Schmidt - the owner of the consulting agency "Magic", up to twenty years lived in a closed military town, where they drank only alcohol. Now he has a failed marriage, an eighteen-year-old capricious daughter, and a lucrative luxury escort business. An enterprise that can in two accounts bring to the gray armpits even a very stress-resistant manager.
In the team of our privateer refined administrator-cashier Galina Mikhailovna, bouncer-decisor named Fisherman and lawyer Elena, able to pull negligent guilty employees from an elite resort anywhere in the world. Why the guy has such a nickname since the 90s, we learn from the first series.
The girls working in the agency are not simple, but aristocratic. Since my youth, I remember the husband of one of my friends dreaming about a cellist. Well, men like princesses emphasizing their status. If you pay a lot of money for a smarah, let it be a gorgeous princess. So the casting is tough, the personnel's eye is sharp. Many years of experience.
Problems for office employees privileged brothel life puts every day. The regular unit of drugs with the client is sniffed (strictly forbidden by the boss), then with a bare ass on the balcony of an Arab country it will get into the camera lenses, then the customer will pull a pair of diamond cufflinks. Whores, what do you get? I'm gonna settle it with the boss. You won't be jealous of Sanka.
The series has only ten episodes of 35 minutes. It looks like a breath. Very beautiful introductory video clip titles. Presented in three versions, changes in each series, I recommend not to rewind. There is an amazing synchronous and magnificent dance of several half-naked women. Tasteful music. There are many erotic scenes and they are sensual. The film itself is colorful, bright, stunning scenery, interiors. A separate delight is the selection of actors. Women, of course, are thoroughbred. You can't take your eyes off men. High society, clean, in expensive suits, starched shirts. The idea arises, why pay for sex, with them and free will go. Kirill Zhandarov as the intimidating major of the Investigative Committee is my crash now.
I personally do not like Paul Priluchny as a spectator. But he's good here, bitch. All these strains of his veins on the temples, the endurance of a beast ready to break off the chain at the same moment - a dear look. Walking sexual intercourse. Fire, not a man.
And the plot keeps in suspense until the last seconds. Thriller. I'm hoping for a second season. I recommend it. Great domestic show.
Well, in general, it looks good, but there is not enough depth, I would recommend the authors or even the director to review the same Snatch, there are the right types and they are played much better. It is not at all clear how the dude could take such a place in the business and even keep it later, behind him you can not see the brigade. One man is good, but not enough. Well, out of habit, you expect some kind of positive kickback from Western TV series, like all the villains were knocked down and good triumphed, like Statham or good old Bruce or the new John Wick, but everything turns out to be more close to reality. Well, the behavior of the daughter is not clear, the reasons that prompted, because she had no problems with money. Mother's situation is also unclear.
The series is shot with a high-quality picture, but does not pull in terms of the plot, the game of actors and dialogues. But in general it was interesting to look at the history of escorts, and from the penultimate series and the criminal component. Irritated by the disgusting character of Sychev, this is the animal!
One stunningly accurate and therefore negative review of this work has already been written by another person. But I can't help but try to play it funnier.
So, the pluses of the series:
Deception with the pseudo-main heroine at the very beginning, but then the whole line turns into a greasy minus, namely.
Why would Magic Burger, a long-time businessman, harness himself for some left-wing woman, then turn on the ethics and "save" her, then teach her other "rescuer," and then wonder even more how well he taught her? Because it's deep! I don't believe Porechenkov's hero. It is woven from the contradictions of the puberty schoolboy and at the same time a clearly tuned inner moral compass. The hero of the Cross is an invention of a person who is not well versed in people. I believe the oligarch Denis. It's real. And even though it's a deep-seated character. It should make up 95% of customers, not a single “small” number in the list.
+ 5 series and an excellent play of its name with parallels in stories;
Linked long outdated Dubai news, but it turned out beautiful;
+ The amazing role of Timothy Chalamet at the beginning of the 6th series.
And now the cons:
- There is a lack of musical accompaniment, very little of it. From one track to another, an eternity of empty and boring life with no musical accompaniment, which is terrible. Give more musical accompaniment to the footage footage!
- Paphos. Well, he just pisses me off at the movies. And here's an exorbitant amount. And he's kind of here in fact. Big money, serious uncles, elite ladies.
Speaking of them. Where are the stories of the real workers? Where are the real VIP escorts? Did you see who was playing them? Is that the elite? Apparently, not many beautiful women are willing to completely naked and play copulation. That's good.
- Sarik Andreasyan. Glad he doesn't know what elite escorts look like, so he probably doesn't use their services. Although judging by who was recruited to the role of the very top of self-selling, Sarik uses the services of a much cheaper segment of the oldest profession. Which is no longer good. It seems like a person earns money.
- Different screensavers were enough for as many as three series in a season of ten. So why should I start at all?
- Pelt market. This is the place where there is always the truth about any lady. Where only venerable experts with verified data pour information. Where any self-respecting man stop to check a new or already existing passion. The place where fate breaks, the place where you can not hide the truth. In general, you all know and constantly monitor this site or Telegram channel or what it is, or I did not understand.
- There will be a sequel. Even more powerful. Even more crazy. Even more realistic.
Well, now just rust, which can not be included in any of the categories:
SK is afraid of the Soon.
Polina Maksimova. Very important for the plot. Keep an eye on her progress as the work progresses. It's really addictive.
In general, the series could teach how important it is to build relationships with children. But he won't.
The brother of a prostitute from Kaluga is Likhonin.
Well, of course, Schmidt's institution, this is not a Yama, this is an institution of the upper class, this is not an economy class, this is a flight of the perverted fantasy of the fat cats of the XXI century.
The creators of the series are on top. Deafeningly vividly shows the life of having a lot of money. Yachts, expensive Roman-style hotels and even an orgy in a cornfield are the upper class of a depraved mind.
Nothing changes!
The fight against prostitution does not change from century to century, it is also the fight against windmills. The fiction of struggle and condemnation, declared by the powerful, only to present this phenomenon as a vice, which must be fought knowing that it is impossible to defeat, and if impossible, there is a reason to become the secret beneficiary and cut coupons. And if a modest near-point in the Yama has a permanent subscription to the institution of Anna Markovna and regular small deductions from the institution, then near-point in ' Call Lives' just want to run Magic's business.
The hero of Priluchny at the very beginning utters perhaps the most important postulate to a girl who came to work. The postulate that you can earn in case of need without selling yourself, the choice is actually there and it is not small. But for some reason, people of easy behavior choose a less thorny path. That's how they work.
Magic has long been mad at this world. And the reason is a failed marriage. Marriage with a beloved woman, but with a woman who loves money and men who pay money for ' Love'
The good guy did a good job. That's his role. The Magician's soul is pure and despises his work, as do all his colleagues. And he wants to stop, drop everything and leave, but the whirlpool of circumstances sucks him into the pit of inevitability.
Tell me, Lapsus, why do you write about something you don’t know? . . ? ? Ilf, Petrov
Among intellectuals, the centuries-old debate over whether talent can be at least partially replaced by hard work and determination does not fade away. All the work of Sarik Andreasyan says the opposite. This director mastered the techniques of kicking out tears from an inexperienced viewer, as a result of which he shot even, average (or below average) passing comedies-melodramas from the cycle “short the evening”. And all would be nothing, if he did not aim for a complex genre of psychological thriller-detective with elements of eroticism, which, in fact, was supposed to be this series. But he didn't. The result is more than deplorable, it is a clear hullabaloo of the type “for the rash of the day”. And now a little more detail (I will try without spoilers). The hero of Pavel Priluchny by the will of the fate of the villain, offended by the world around him, decided to make it worse by creating an expensive escort agency. But, being essentially a decent person, he can not agree with himself, which side to take, good or evil. The subject is deep, you could squeeze something like 'Devil's Advocate'. But this is Andreasian. Therefore, experiences will be tortured, dialogues without a special sign of intelligence, etc. I don’t know who deserves a bigger hat, director or screenwriter. It seems that the series about the relationship of the powerful (or, more precisely, about them and their expensive whores) was shot by a maid or gardener who is used to seeing the world of the elite from the yard through a panoramic window and is sure that he knows everything about this world. It is not difficult to guess that the world of the elite through the eyes of the gardener has little to do with reality. I will not focus on certain absurdities and inconsistencies, simply because the entire series consists of them, there is absolutely nothing positive to highlight. The authors, of course, did not pass the 90s, so their “bandits” are a grotesque parody, nothing more. We did not go to Dolls, because the world of an expensive escort is judged, apparently, by the Soviet film Intergirl. And certainly not in the highest echelons of power. And so the dialogues are delusions, the behavior of the characters is the theater of amateur activities of the rural club. And Pryluchny in the role of a kind of Petty Listerman - mother dear!!! It would be better for Andreasyan and the company to create something like: “Gavril served as a pimp, Gavril sold girls ...” Therefore, Ilf and Petrov wrote the appropriate ending of this review a hundred years ago: Tell me, Lapsus, why do you write about what you do not know? You jackass!
I would say that the motto of this series is ' not us, life is like this'. The series shows us the everyday life and sorrows of an elite escort agent in Moscow. I have a double opinion - on the one hand, the series tries to be closer to real life, on the other hand, there are moments that I found romanticized.
Let's start with the hero - Magic, here's more ' I don't believe ' I'd say his main problem is that he's human and emotional, and that's why he's in constant trouble. He can tear and his face often shakes as the passions heat up. Surrounding people constantly tell him what he needs to do - and escort girls, and Galina Mikhailovna, and his close Fisherman, and daughter. In general, he does not give the impression of a tough person who could last long in such a business. I’m dreaming now, but it seemed that the hero is very lonely and in general his work infuriates him. He begins the call with the phrase 'What's wrong with us?'. He is constantly alone, he has no understanding and emotional intimacy with almost anyone except Fisherman and Galina Mikhailovna. He struggles with the role of a loving father, and we see him trying to find understanding with his daughter, but at least for the first 8 episodes he didn’t.
Perhaps due to his wife’s past betrayal, the hero believes that everything is sold. And this is reinforced by his bond with a friend of his daughter, with whom he gets close on the first day of acquaintance. Judging by this episode, we can say that the hero is on the verge of despair. On the one hand, he suspects everyone in everything, on the other hand, he cannot but trust and this is his weakness. Overall, I think the main character was successful and he is really torn by contradictions, and that keeps the viewer’s attention.
The red thread through the series is the thought - ' sold all '. Wealthy clients call escorts only ' hides' they do not consider them people, although in fact it is the opposite. These clients are deprived of humanity, of minimal respect for another person. Each has its own price, for which you can do almost anything. And no one complains, every new client is a danger, sometimes to health and life, because no one knows what might be waiting for her there. A young girl of 16 years old is an asset that she can monetize with good data. Onlyfans and porn are also included. One of the heroines claims that ' it's art' when Magic asks a reasonable question why she does it ' fame' It is voiced and very small salary, which she was paid in this ' art'. At the same time, we see the disgust of the heroine when she is recognized by fans of her & #39; creativity & #39; in a cafe and make an obscene offer. Very well shown the theme that for expensive gifts, you need to go to great lengths and fulfill more and more sophisticated and perverse fantasies of customers.
At some point, Magic feels powerless in a world of money and power. His connections don't work where his clients aren't willing to go against each other. But he does not give up and seems ready to go to the end. . .
I'll give you a layman's look. The series is very good both in the plot and the selection of actors. Made beautifully and tastefully, and with each series draws more and more. As a rule, all films on the subject of prostitution are about the same made: eroticism on the verge of porn, naked girls are disgusting and go behaving, and when they have problems, the viewer is led to think: ' asked, it is their fault' In this film, everything is completely different, a new look at the problem. It's not the girls' fault, and it's not the tough, tough pimp selling skins. The topic of process customers is raised. The formula ' works in this business; there is a demand - there is a supply '.
Society condemns unfortunate girls forced to sell their honor, human dignity, body. But for some reason, the role of the customer who is never responsible and does not consider himself guilty is always silent. In this film, the girls are not particularly portrayed as disgusting sluts. Here in full glory revealed the unpleasant role of men. In the scenes of orgies, men look disgusting, like real soulless and insatiable animals. It becomes even pity actors who masterfully performed the roles of rich scoundrels. The role of the actor is often fixed for a long time in the memory of the viewer.
Pavel Priluchny as an actor is supposedly specially created for such roles as Magic, starting with the series Major, where the main character is reborn and awakened for the better. The film says that humanization is possible, but not all scum and scum.
There's a lot of boobs in the movie. That was the end of the virtues. The story is full of nonsense, as if the student wrote. The protagonist is delusional. Such a person cannot work in such a profession. He is the exact opposite of the qualities that are needed: tense, detached, strict, tough, silent, judgmental, lonely, anxious, hysterical.
In fact, I had little interest in how escort agencies worked before. After all, ordinary people are very far from all of this, and the most I’ve ever heard of them is on crime news. But now, when a new series called “Life on a Call” was released on the screens, I wanted to watch it and learn something new for myself about the sphere of life, about which it is not customary in intelligent society to speak out loud.
The series begins with the fact that the capital arrives Nastya Mikhailova, a pretty young girl from Kaluga, who decided to leave her native province and settle in a big city. She sees no future for herself where even a simple trolleybus is something incredible and conceived to use what she owns perfectly. It's about her gorgeous body, which can bring just crazy money. But arriving in Moscow, Nastya begins to understand that her idealistic idea of escort is nothing more than self-deception.
One of the largest numbers in the escort of Moscow is the company of Alexander, who is also called Magic. This is a smart, confident guy who knows how to run his business so that everyone, both clients and girls, is satisfied. But it is with Nastya that Magic everything is not easy. Moreover, after meeting with her, police officers come to Magic's office with a search, which is probably far from a coincidence. Here you need to clearly understand what to do next. The game has begun.
I was very pleased in the role of Magic Pavel Priluchny. In general, he is one of my favorite actors and it is very cool that in “Life on a Call” the creators called him. Being the owner of an escort agency, Priluchny is outside the jurisdiction of the law, but at the same time he has his own honor and he knows perfectly well what to do in order to avoid unnecessary problems and proceedings. In this, he is helped by the right hand of the fisherman and the lawyer Elena, with a finger in her mouth. So Magic's team is combative, but even with it, he can't feel completely safe.
There is a hero Priluchny and a daughter-student who knows absolutely nothing about what his father does. In turn, Magic tries to follow every step of the girl, because someone, and he knows perfectly well how his business works and does not want it to harm the person closest to him in the world.
I want to say a few words about Nastya, played by Lisa Sailor. That's what she did with the performance. I've seen her in a couple of movies and TV shows before, but specifically in Life on a Call, she opened up from a very hot side. Lisa was not afraid to show herself in all its glory on camera and did everything necessary to ensure that the male part of the audience could not take their eyes away from her. And I even believed she could actually work as an escort. This is the power of reincarnation.
In addition, other famous actors appear in the series. For example, Vladimir Sychev plays the extremely atypical role of a rich man who likes to hang out on a yacht and has fun with several girls at once. The most interesting thing is that he behaves absolutely truthfully and causes me personally controversial feelings. But that's the beauty of Sychev's game. You really believe him.
The series immediately intrigued me. This is a very interesting and skillful work that promises to become more and more intriguing with the new series. So if you are interested in this topic, be sure to look. Life on Call reveals all the dark secrets of the big city.
On the series "Life on call" simply can not pay attention. He flirts with things that are of great interest to us, but for obvious reasons we do not want to advertise our attention to them. Escorts are called a type of prostitution, in which serious money revolves and everyone who pays for these services can be sure that information about this will not come out. But now we know exactly everything and even more about how the Russian escort works and what dangers it carries.
The main character of the series is Magic, the owner of an escort agency, who spends all his free time on his illegal, but such a profitable and popular business. Magic tries to solve all the issues on his own. If his girlfriend stole someone else's cufflinks from a serious client, he'll figure it out. He will listen carefully to both sides of the conflict and make the right decision. Yes, he is not on the side of the law, but he knows how to behave and thus deserves respect. But one day, even a guy like Magic has troubles that can’t get out of without serious connections.
Someone pointed the police at the agency, and now Magic, as well as all his employees and employees are under constant surveillance. But here it is necessary to understand that even in such circumstances, the case should continue, because once refusing customers in girls, you can lose them forever. But Magic’s troubles do not end there, because the very girls he hired are too often with mistakes and discontent from them only increases. And this suggests that someone has announced a hunt for Magic and it will be very difficult for him to cope with what has piled on him.
I understand that some of the moments in the series are specifically romanticized, but in general it looks quite believable and honest. I admit that sometimes obscene language skips here, and there are plenty of naked bodies, but still you follow the development of events extremely carefully and try not to miss anything. We immediately presented the main characters and outlined their characters, which means that in the future they will develop and fill with volume.
Magic himself, played by Pavel Priluchny, I like even though his hero is engaged in the supply of young girls in apartments to rich and not young men. This business has always been, and it is not Magic to fight it. I also liked Galina Mikhailovna, the secretary of the main character, who helps him conduct business and is responsible for documentation. And what a colorful Fisherman here, an ex-bandit who acts for Magic as both a friend and a bodyguard at the same time. Natalia Rudova is remembered as Elena’s lawyer. And it seems that they have more to do with Magic than just work.
Anyway, I like the show. He's interesting and memorable. Finally, something really exciting was filmed on such a hot topic. I’m looking forward to every new series and I can say that so far there is no disappointment. There is only excitement and intrigue.
On the platform Kion has released a new drama series ' Life on call', also known as 'Skin Market'. By the way, the working title is rigid, but catchy. It is vicious, offensive and sexist, degrading to women’s dignity. In all likelihood, this was the reason for the replacement, but, as they say, anything can be.
Director Sarik Andreasyan, who gave us the series 'Chikatilo', once again enters the dark side, but this time instead of serial killers, he plunges into the topic of escort services. The first two episodes show the rigor of the everyday life of the elite escort agency, where the head of the company from morning to evening solves all kinds of problems. As it turned out, even in the world of elite prostitution with all its gloss and shine, there are also problems above the roof. Throughout history, the protagonist scolds someone, dismisses others, helps others, and conflicts with some. The authors make it clear that the main character is a very positive character, despite his occupation. He cherishes friends, respects loyalty, and demands honesty when responding to enemies. He is not afraid of anyone or at least looks like a staunch tin soldier on the battlefield of big money.
Watching the characters, recalls the American TV series 'Ray Donovan' where the main character also runs around the city every day and solves other people's problems. He also has loyal assistants ready to hedge and solve any issue. Pavel Priluchny, who plays Pavel Priluchny, like Ray Donovan, is a brutal man in a dark suit who always works openly and ahead. But this is where the similarity of the series ends, since in the American project the authors pay a lot of attention to the personal drama of the protagonist, his family, but in the Russian version this is mentioned only in a few short scenes.
In many Russian TV series there are two serious problems, one of which is the reluctance to make catchy dramatic pilots. The authors have a kind of blind belief that viewers will necessarily watch their series until the end. And the second problem concerns the storyline of the main character. Many authors make an impressive emphasis on the setting, detective component and other aspects, but completely forget about the development of the protagonist and how he affects others, and how others affect him.
In ' Life on Call' much is devoted to eroticism, expensive locations, beautiful girls and the relative perversion of human nature. But the central character is given catastrophically little time. We don't know about his internal traumas, his emotional experiences, his goals, and so on. During the two episodes, he only spoke a couple of times with his daughter, who in the series is still perceived as a completely unnecessary character. Of course, in the future series, the plot will surely please us with many details from the personal life of the main character, but this will all be later. Where is the confidence that a simple viewer will wait for the disclosure of the image of the hero to begin to empathize with him? To understand this, you can mentally replace a delicious topic of eroticism with a boring and simple work somewhere else. For example, Priluchny manages not an elite escort agency, but a simple cleaning company, where some cleaners are fired for stealing, others are accepted, the third teaches life, and with the fourth chats heart to heart with a glass of vodka on the table. I am sure that most viewers will simply fall asleep from an overabundance of uninteresting working moments. Everyone needs a personal story of the hero, his experiences, injuries, desires, dreams and fears. This is one of the main problems of the series, as much emphasis is placed on the world, not the hero. Take away all the sex and perversion and there's nothing left of the show. You may ask, what are the perversions? Well, for example, no one needs a dulled prostitute pees in the mouth of the owner of life, satisfying his sexual needs.
In general, the series is curious and causes interest, but I really want to hope that the authors will surprise us not with the degree of their depravity, but with the depth of drama, where the main character will still be the main, and not a beautiful scenery against the background of expensive locations.
We all know that the powerful of this world love forbidden entertainment and will never give up quenching their thirst. Therefore, it is no secret that elite escort agencies work all over the world, including in Moscow. Their registration may be the most common and legal, but in fact they are firms that overstep the bounds of the law and play in forbidden territory. And here's the new series ' Life on a Call' tells us about one such agency that suddenly faced very serious problems. . .
Alexander Schmidt, aka Magic, has long earned a reputation as one of the most skillful and time-tested businessmen. He supplies politicians and the cream of society with exceptionally good girls and ensures that no one gets in trouble after a stormy night with elite courtesans. Anonymity is valued above all else in this business, so it is not surprising that most wealthy clients turn to the Magic Agency. But suddenly the hero faces problems that can turn into very bad consequences.
The unexpected visit of Major Zimin from the investigation team already hints at the fact that someone has taken over Magic and now he is not so easy to get away with. Trying to break through his connections all the necessary information about the major, Magic begins to understand that a sudden check is only the tip of the iceberg and in the future he will have to deal with much more serious opponents who clearly conceived to destroy the lucrative escort business.
To begin with, the series looks stylish and rich. Operator work at height, as well as the selection of locations. Together with the main character and the girls who work for him, we find ourselves in luxury hotels, respectable apartments and see what happens behind closed doors. I also want to note that there are a lot of candid scenes in the series, but this is easily explained by the theme ' Life on Call'. Special chastity from history should not be expected, but at the same time there is no vulgarity. Everything is beautiful and I can even say that it is beautiful.
Pavel Priluchny is organic in his role. He knows how to play and how to represent his character. He solves problems as he arrives and is always calm. But after Major Zimin's visit, he is confronted for the first time with the notion of fear and anxiety. That's not what Magic does. It will be interesting to follow further developments.
' Life on a Call' a very bold series on a very difficult topic. That's why he caught my attention. For any one is worth looking further, because there is not enough that an excellent hot aesthetic, but also a fascinating story that keeps in mind.
8 out of 10