Looking for a way out: which TV series premieres are waiting for us in February

February will delight fans of the old cult TV series "Clinic" with an unexpected sequel. In 2010, after the failure of the ninth season, the creators of the show announced its final closure — and now fans of the "Clinic" are impatient. We have prepared something fresh for TV viewers: fans of detectives are waiting for "Reservation" starring Denis Shvedov, and for those who want to laugh, the communal comedy "Treshka" is intended. Izvestia reports on the most interesting TV premieres in February.

"Disappeared"

1st of February
MGM+

Alice and Tom are genuinely in love with each other, their relationship is full of romance. Together they embark on a dream trip — of course, to Paris, the city of love! Hugs, kisses, charming landscapes outside the window of a high-speed train on the way to the French capital... and Tom's mysterious disappearance right from the train. The police are in no particular hurry to help Alice in the search for her lover, suspecting that the girl made up both him and the whole improbable story. Therefore, she has to unwrap the tangle of secrets on her own, every now and then finding herself in the center of dangerous and unexpected events...

"Disappeared" is practically a family project: Barnaby Thompson ("The Perfect Husband") acted as the director, and his son Preston Thompson, who previously worked with his father on the crime comedy "Popados", became the screenwriter. The creators took a serious approach to filming: the series was shot on location in Paris and Marseille, starring Kaley Cuoco, the star of "The Big Bang Theory", and Sam Claflin ("Last Night in Soho") and Mathias Schweighefer ("Oppenheimer"). We are promised a tense, dark Hitchcock-style thriller, and judging by the trailers, the creators' claims are very serious.

"Reservation"

1st of February
KION

Retired policeman Sergei (Denis Shvedov — "Live", "Major") returns to his homeland after a long absence and discovers that the area where he lived was mysteriously cut off from the outside world a few years ago. It is easy to get here, but an attempt to leave the anomalous zone ends in death. Neither law nor morality operate in the territory of the anomaly anymore — people survive as best they can. The law of the pack is gradually becoming familiar, and many no longer want to leave the territory of the anomaly. However, Sergey is determined to get out on his own and get his family out. But there are forces that do not want him to figure out what is happening and find a way out.

The new series was presented to the public as a detective thriller. Director Alexey Andrianov ("Spy", "Stolypin") clearly tried to catch up with the infernal horror: the sun does not appear on the screen, people in dark clothes merging with the night drown in gray snow, which never seems to melt here. As a result, the viewer is presented with a classic panorama of a small industrial city in northern Russia, as it is represented within the Garden Ring: with eternal winter, endless smoky ribbons from pipes and a constant taste of hopelessness in the cold air. Hopefully, the creators made the main bet on the detective component of the plot, and not on the stereotypes of the capital's bohemians.

"Treshka"

February 2
STS

Three generations of the same family live in a small Voronezh apartment — Dasha, a 35-year-old divorcee with a teenage daughter who is building a career at a chemical plant, meets with her boss and periodically threatens to hand over her daughter to an orphanage, her younger sister Lena with her husband and two kids who have nowhere else to settle down after a fire in their own house, and her ex-husband Dashi, Dima, who dreams of starting all over again, returning to his ex-wife and daughter. Nine people in three rooms jostle each other, periodically make sparkling jokes, repair plumbing, make mimosa salad and celebrate holidays against a carpet background, fall in love and watch the TV series "Brigade" — and, no matter what, they are always ready to help their relatives.

The creators called their brainchild "a comedy of the pre-disco period." Indeed, the beginning of the Noughties, which they presented in all its everyday details, seems to many today to be the Mesozoic, when the grass was greener, the apartments were more spacious, and salads with mayonnaise were tastier and more nutritious. Members of a large family learn from their own experience the highest truths — "in close quarters, but not in offense," and this process turns out to be as comical as the development of virgin lands in Soviet comedies of the 1960s. True, for those who remember pre—pub communal stories about spitting in soup, scandals over a TV program, and waiting for an hour at the bathroom or shower door, the fun may seem a bit forced - but these people from the age of dinosaurs don't seem to be included in the target audience.

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"Suburb"

February 8
Peacock

Young couple Samira and Rob move to a nice quiet suburb where Rob's family once lived. However, they soon discover that the silence and tranquility here are deceptive. Samira, getting to know her new neighbors, is shocked by their oddities. And the new tenant of the mansion next door, named Gary, turns out to be so strange that not only Samira, but also other residents of the suburb realize that something is wrong here. Samira begins to follow him, and gradually she is overcome by suspicions that Gary is connected with a mysterious crime, which the neighborhood is full of rumors about. Soon, Samira comes up with a good excuse to visit Gary and get proof of his guilt herself...

"The Suburb" is a modern adaptation of Joe Dante's 1989 cult comedy thriller of the same name. The main role in it was played by Tom Hanks, who in those years, even before his iconic roles, already knew how to bring the audience to hiccups with a completely serious face. The creators of the new version put the dark-skinned Keke Palmer ("Scream Queens", "Strippers") in Hanks' place. From the point of view of political correctness, the decision was sound, from the point of view of acting, not quite. To portray the comedic component, Palmer needs the help of the entire team of strange neighbors — residents of that very suburb. Whether they will be able to reach the level of Hanks through collective efforts, we will soon find out.

The Museum of Innocence

February 13th
Netflix

Kemal Basmaji, who comes from a wealthy Istanbul family, is preparing for a long-planned wedding with Sibel, the daughter of another wealthy clan. He has bright prospects ahead of him and a life in which he can afford everything he wants. But it turns out that this is not all: Kemal has long been silently in love with his distant relative Fusun, a poor girl who works as a saleswoman to feed herself and her family. When visiting Fusun and her parents, Kemal steals simple household items from their house that remind him of his beloved, and this collection becomes his personal museum of memories of the unfulfilled. A story of hopeless love becomes a story of memories, and a personal drama turns into a high philosophical tragedy.

The novel "Museum of Innocence" by the Turkish classic, Nobel Prize winner in literature Orhan Pamuk is one of his most difficult works and, perhaps, the first installation novel in his practice. In parallel with writing the text, he created a real "Museum of Innocence", acquiring an old building in the center of Istanbul for it and buying up a bunch of antique items at the city flea markets, each of which breathed history and could belong to the characters of his novel. The museum is still open today, and its exposition tells about the characters of the novel as much as about the everyday human history of the Turkish capital. After the release of the series, the museum is sure to expect an influx of visitors.

"Clinic"

Hulu
February 25

Once upon a Time, young doctors Christopher Turk (Donald Faison), J.D. (Zach Braff) and Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalk) We started our careers together at the Sacred Heart Clinic, learning from our own experience the difficulties of practical medicine, making mistakes and achieving our first professional victories. Now, years later, they have matured and gained experience — and they are back in the clinic, where they will have to transfer their experience to new young doctors, make complex diagnoses, solve professional problems and simultaneously cope with problems in their personal lives, trying not to lose the audacity and spirit of adventurism so characteristic of them in their younger years.

The legendary sitcom "The Clinic" is being revived in a new television and medical reality fifteen years after the release of the disastrous ninth season. Fans are looking forward to the new "Clinic" with impatience: the creators of the updated version of the series managed to assemble the old team: the main actors retained their places, and Zach Braff also became the director and producer of the project. Fans will find out very soon whether it will be possible to revive the unique spirit of the Sacred Heart Hospital.