90s Russian gangsters wake up in 2022 and can't figure out why everyone's staring at rectangles.
26 minSeason 2 • Episode 10
LatestFour bandits in the late nineties come to knock money out of the debtor, but accidentally fall into the cryocamera and end up in 2022. Phil, Chuck, Whizz and Massa do not immediately realize that during this time Moscow has radically changed, their lifestyle has become very outdated, and people around have a lot of unfamiliar devices and strange habits. The worst thing is that their loved ones have grown older, and now someone will have to rebuild their relationship with their son, who has become his age, and someone will have to win the heart of an already much older girlfriend. Now the four friends must find themselves in a new incomprehensible world and take revenge on their former boss, who sent them to the cryocamera.
Writing
Sharp culture-clash gags that actually land.
Acting
Tsapnik's bewildered patriarch steals every scene.
Production
Moscow then-vs-now production design is *chef's kiss*.
Creator
Anya Mirokhina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'gopnik' archetype—track suits, squatting, watermelon—was genuine post-Soviet subculture now commodified as meme. This series weaponizes that nostalgia.
Creator Anya Mirokhina pitched this as 'Goodfellas meets Encino Man' but Russian. The cryocamera was originally a magical curse—execs demanded 'sci-fi' for international appeal.
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