High stakes. Rematch (season two) Uh -- nn -- didn't like it. Somehow...mmm... High-quality crime drama NTV, with its atmosphere, so gloomy, manly restrained, turned into a cheap craft, leaving at the expense of the first season. Have the director and writer changed? So change the actors and the title, and it would be quite modern series, why not? Now on the successful existing basis clumsily slapped all sorts of new-fangled things and chips. Why?
Why reduce criminal businessmen to fools with guns? How did some hacker with a phone get two hardcore mobsters into circulation? Why did the “sisters” suddenly listen to her? The cosmonaut and the captain were vulgarized, both together and separately. Why? Why? Why? In the first season, sparks flew from their interaction. The captain gave part of his life for the astronaut. And now they fight like old wives. The cosmonaut in the first part was a heavy personality, and now he became simply unbearable with his grumbling. Cold, rational, intelligent, dispassionate Captain, a lone wolf, made a slave. And by whom? I can't believe it.
Lukeria Ilyashenko famously played in the series Sweet Life. But here, next to Maxim Dakhnenko, well, it is so unnatural against his background that hunting spits. Motley dressed, brightly made-up, young and fresh, with artificial sponges, should play in contrast with the “murder machine” dressed with a needle. Captain, but it looks totally out of place. And as a couple, Captain's got nothing. Why should I? How? When? I don't. There's more faith in Captain and a half scenes with his ex-wife than in the whole Gloria scene. In addition, the character Dakhnenko was also spoiled with vulgar scenes, fu-fu.
The clash of the new and the old, which probably tried to show, did not work. Hackers turned out to be banal in their desires and just annoyed by the fact that the former characters were sharply stupefied next to them. This stupidity was annoying, but most annoying, damn it, Gloria, badly played and even worse written. One of the central characters, driving the action, and so stupid.
The second season of the series is much worse than the first. In the good old criminal yeast tried to pour young blood with neotechnologies, but the output turned bourda. Smells template, stupidity and American. The actress on the role of the main character could not cope. The final is not bad, almost in the same spirit, which gives hope for a possible continuation. Of course, I would like to see the heroes I like, but I do not want them to spin in the same nonsense again. The review is gray only for the work of actors, and then not all. As in the first season, it was possible to create an unpleasant feeling from quite good people belonging to the criminal world. Maxim Dakhnenko..mmrrhh... beautiful. Let his hero be capitally spoiled, he is still the same black-eyed Captain, exuding a threat and seeex (the scene of the first meeting with Karina is unforgettable, Gloria in the furnace with all her guts).
P.S. I decided to revisit the first season. With the second, of course, no comparison, heaven and earth. I missed Borzov. The new creators did not produce a worthy hero, the character of the old ones was cut groundlessly and not in favor. It is a pity that the seasons were not divided into different pages, it is impossible to evaluate them together.