![]() Major Grom goes off to catch the baddie, against explicit orders from his superiors, with a new trainee police officer and freelance journalist helping him. ![]() The Plague Doctor turns out to be the best friend of “Sergei Razumovsky,” the creator of VMeste social media platform - obvious to all Russian viewers as stand-ins for Pavel Durov and his VKontakte and Telegram platforms. Petersburg plaza and a statue all to catch some bank robbers.Ī new “super-villain,” the Plague Doctor, comes on the scene, taking revenge on rich kids and other members of the elite who have gotten away with crimes by killing them in disturbing and fire-based ways. In the opening scene, he causes multiple car accidents, probably some civilian casualties and destroys a St. “Major Grom” is an adaptation of a comic book of the same name in which Detective Igor Grom (literally “Igor Thunder”) is an edgy and painfully non-self-aware officer, known for wreaking havoc in the city in the name of justice. ![]() Or perhaps it is just popular because it’s a cheesy action film that tries to be political and impart some kind of message. It’s the first time a Russian-language film has hit the Netflix jackpot, perhaps marking a new era in Russian culture’s relationship with the Western world. “Major Grom: Plague Doctor,” the newest smash-hit from streaming giant Netflix, has been topping the charts worldwide this week in more than 50 countries from Belgium to Brazil.
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