Season 1 • Episode 8
Latest1996. A wood near Moscow. Andrey Ivanych (the future CEO) and some thugs get an official in a suit out of the trunk of the car and put him in a grave they dug earlier. Andrey Ivanych says that this is where his house is going to be.
A group of work colleagues miss their flight by accident and avoid a plane crash, which prompts each of them to consider the paths their lives have taken and their unrealised dreams.
Acting
The Efremov father-son tension is absolutely devastating.
Direction
Todorovsky Jr. inherited the family gift for crushing beauty.
Writing
Each episode peels back another layer of Soviet-era office hell.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series captures post-Soviet office culture where 'collective' still haunts corporate capitalism like a ghost. Those grey corridors are practically characters.
Mikhail Efremov was facing real-life legal troubles during filming; his character's guilt and reckoning hit different knowing this was essentially his farewell performance before prison.
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