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Home Persons“Fisher. Eclipse” – a continuation of the Russian crime series about the search for maniacs Ivan Yankovsky remained in the second season, which can not be said about the original ideas

“Fisher. Eclipse” – a continuation of the Russian crime series about the search for maniacs Ivan Yankovsky remained in the second season, which can not be said about the original ideas

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Online movie theater Wink is streaming “Fisher. Eclipse” – a continuation of the crime show in 2023. The first season was based on the real case of the killer Sergei Golovkin, while the second uses his figure only symbolically – to tie in to the first. In the continuation still play the same Ivan Yankovsky and Alexander Yatsenko, but the crew has changed – to replace Sergei Tamarev and Lyubov Lvova in the second season came director Alexander Tsoi. Critic Alexey Skvortsov tells how the continuation of the series, which was called the Russian “True Detective”.

In previous episodes, investigator Evgeny Bokov (Ivan Yankovsky) caught a serial killer nicknamed Fisher (Andrei Maximov). Soon after, as it turns out in the new season, he receives a note from an unknown woman from the town of Kurortny: her two children have been kidnapped, and her life itself is now in danger.

Bokov heads south, leaving his colleague Valery Kozyrev (Alexander Yatsenko) behind in the capital. On the spot, he learns that the woman is missing, her husband was killed in a car accident, and the children have indeed disappeared. Nadezhda Raikina (Irina Starshenbaum), head of the Kurortny police, and young investigator Ivan Zlobin (Nikita Khudyakov) do not trust the capital’s criminal investigation star, but are forced to cooperate with him. While the children are being sought, a series of brutal murders take place in the city. Bokov and his new team come to the conclusion that they are dealing with another maniac.

The first season of “Fisher”, based on the true story of maniac Sergei Golovkin, was called Russia’s answer to David Fincher or Nick Pizzolatto’s “True Detective”. The series came out just in time for the peak of the popularity of tru-crime, and accurately reflected the general tension and anxiety of the perestroika era, which continues to be felt today. Although “Fisher” had a completely finished story, where the killer was exposed and caught, the huge popularity of the project and two Golden Eagles led to the inevitable – its continuation.

«Фишер. Затмение» — продолжение российского криминального сериала о поисках маньяков Иван Янковский остался во втором сезоне, чего не скажешь об оригинальных идеях

In “Fisher. Eclipse” changed the film crew: the director was Alexander Tsoi, who had previously filmed unremarkable youth projects “Gum” and “Difficult Teens”, and the cameraman – Maxim Osadchiy (“Stalingrad” and “Duelant”). The cast has also been updated, and from the first season remained only Yankovsky and Yatsenko in a couple of small scenes. The maniac Fisher himself in the story is, but only in the background. Investigator Kozyrev continues to interrogate the killer in prison, wanting to find out where he hid the body of one of the murdered boys. The maniac symbolizes the evil that continues to metastasize, because it’s not enough to catch the criminal to stop the violence. The idea is not bad, but the creators have not figured out how to realize it clearly – and the serial killer here is just a plot crutch, needed only to justify the name of the series.

Changed in the second season and the main character played by Ivan Yankovsky. Bokov weaned himself from the Rostov colloquialism and no longer “shock”, which is played in the first series. On the investigator suddenly fell fame: he is shown on television and, wherever he came in Kurortny, he is immediately recognized as a metropolitan cop who caught Fisher. He himself has become even more coarse and withdrawn, and in some scenes his tendency to violence and abuse of authority is evident. Bokov believes that in exceptional cases it is possible to break the law to achieve his goals, and his fame helps him in this.

«Фишер. Затмение» — продолжение российского криминального сериала о поисках маньяков Иван Янковский остался во втором сезоне, чего не скажешь об оригинальных идеях

«Фишер. Затмение» — продолжение российского криминального сериала о поисках маньяков Иван Янковский остался во втором сезоне, чего не скажешь об оригинальных идеях

To prove him wrong is taken by the heroine Irina Starshenbaum, a motherly investigator, who tries hard to earn the respect of the male collective. She wants to act according to conscience, believes in the honor of the officer. The cruel reality of Kurortny again and again forces her to make difficult moral decisions, and she does not want to follow the path of Bokov, who has clearly lost something human after meeting Fischer. The dynamics between the two investigators are perhaps the most interesting thing about Eclipse. They reflect not only the difference between the capital and the regions, but also the typical conflict of “good” and “bad” policeman, which has its roots in “The Place of Meeting Change You Can’t” and the famous “the thief must sit in jail”.

Kurortny, unlike Moscow in the first season, is a fictional city, a collective image of a quiet southern province where reality is frozen. Typical, still Soviet landscapes of the time-less 1994: old signs, dark streets and coastal restaurants with vagrants and bandits. The era is convincingly conveyed: there is a sect of psychics in the spirit of Kashpirovsky, and political technologist (Alexei Agranovich), giving advice to the mayor (colorful role of Alexandra Rebenok), and characteristic radio and television programs. The police collapse, lawlessness (one of the defendants reminds the cops that the constitution is no longer Soviet, but Russian), total corruption. Murders and kidnappings only continue this associative series against the background of general despair and loss of hope for perestroika.

«Фишер. Затмение» — продолжение российского криминального сериала о поисках маньяков Иван Янковский остался во втором сезоне, чего не скажешь об оригинальных идеях

Unfortunately, the weakest part of the series is the detective part. If the first season was based on real and well-known events, then here the screenwriters Natalia Kapustina and Sergei Kalvarsky pulled plots from everywhere, and the integrity is gone. Now “Fisher” even more copies “True Detective”, losing the last originality. This is especially felt in the way the actual murders are invented. It comes down to cartoonish absurdities: one victim was “hung” from a tree, dunking his head in a pond, another was “put” in a bee hive. I believe in what is happening with each episode less and less, and some intriguing detail linking the murders between them, and does not appear. In “Fisher. Eclipse” everything is a little over the edge, even the mat, which the characters resort to for realism, at some point ceases to be organic.

The second season of “Fisher” is deeply secondary. The new crew doesn’t shy away from exploiting the popularity of the first season, without really trying to come up with something of their own. Acting and dynamics between characters give life to the project, but otherwise everything here feels artificial and a hundred times retold.

Besides, investigator Bokov is not such an interesting character to send him to different cities to catch maniacs in new seasons: he is too typey and straightforward – and Yankovsky’s charisma can’t fix it. The attempt to ride the wave of success of the first “Fisher” is understandable, but the second season is made hastily and does not enrich the first. If to copy “True Detective”, why not prepare new episodes with the same care?

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