Ulitsy razbitykh fonarey

Not a cop show, but a show about people who work as a cops. In this show you can see a lot of comedy and drama mixed together in a way that you will feel a rich spectrum of emotions. More you watch "Streets of Broken Lights", more you feel how actors become merged with their own characters. Great actors performance helps to not notice average directing and editing work. There a lot of breath taking moments throughout the show, moments that will make you empathize the characters. And a lot of moments that will make you laugh, too. Some of the jokes made on this show still live in Russia in a form of folklore. A masterpiece that will live a lot longer than your average cop show.

This TV show was started when most of people in Russia were sure, that all the Russian cops are rude, dumb and totally corrupted. The short stories changed a bit this opinion. It launched the epidemic of same TV shows with bad gangsters (the rest of Russian mafia) and good cops. "Cops" is still can be seen, the main heroes now are very famous and actors are can be recognizable in any place in Russia. There are 12 seasons and 4 different TV shows with the same heroes. Some heroes "left" the show, new came but it all didn't broke the interest. I think that this show is the best of the "Cop series" because it was first, had a lot of humor and less gore.