Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestArtem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?
Acting
Matveev's hollow confidence masking rot
Writing
Patient cases that mirror Artem's own damage
Direction
Gritty Moscow that feels as cold as the protagonist
Creator
Dmitry Tyurin
Maksim Matveev
Артём Стрелецкий (психолог-психотерапевт)
Igor Kostolevskiy
Александр Стрелецкий (отец Артёма)
Svetlana Ivanova
Даша (бывшая жена Артёма)
Viktoriya Maslova
Лера
Roman Mayakin
Денис (друг Артёма)
Vladislav Tiron
Матвей
Angelina Strechina
Катя (сестра Артёма)
Sergey Gilev
следователь
Mark Yusef
Sabina Akhmedova
Irina Starshenbaum
Anastasiya Ukolova
Maksim Stoyanov
Sergey Godin
Mariya Andreeva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Russian series to crack international markets, reflecting post-Soviet skepticism of institutional authority—no hero doctors here.
Creator Dmitry Tyurin consulted actual forensic psychologists; the 'provocative therapy' depicted has real controversial practitioners.
