#detective anna

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

I’m so desperate for Detective Anna season 3, I’m watching the 2nd season for the third time this year 😂😭😭

aww come here 🫂 we all have more or less been through this. hang in there 💜

[briocheminded]

19th century rabbit hole

Digging around for unrelated info led me down a funny Detective Anna rabbit hole (or a rabbit hole led me to Detective Anna? idk).

In s2 ep11, "The Last Sacrifice", Krutin poisons Anton and leads Shtolman on a scavenger hunt for the antidote. An early scene starts with a beggar (to use a 19th c word) reading a book out loud in the barracks (?), poor house (?). The cover is hard to see, but you can kind of make out "лать," leading me to assume it was Lenin's "что делать" in a kind of intentional/tongue-in-cheek anachronism, since the real book wasn't published until 1901.

BUT, come to find out today there was an earlier book called "что делать" / "What Is To Be Done?" published 1863, by Nikolay Chernyshevsky?? (Look, I've heard of him, ok) Sure enough, a closer look at the book cover and I'm pretty sure the last letters of the authors name are "вский"??

Two fun discoveries in that:

s2 ep13 "The Living Dead" was probably at least slightly inspired by the plot of the Chernyshevsky book, in which a man fakes his own death in order to let his wife marry his best friend with whom she has fallen in love. Doesn't seem like a huge stretch since s1's "The Drama" is very obviously (and meta-textually) "The Seagull."

Per Wikipedia, Chernyshevsky's novel was written as a direct response to Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," which also features a love triangle, where the young woman/subject of the son's affection falls in love with the son's radical best friend. Except Turgenev's love triangle is resolved when the radical gets what he deserves (lol) and dies. This is all only relevant because Anton reveals Shtolman is reading "Fathers and Sons" when he's arrested in s1's "The Prince".

It's kind of interesting they have Shtolman reading that particular book. Maybe it's just period appropriate and famous? "Crime and Punishment" would be a little too on the nose, lol. It's also a family/romance melodrama, which obviously DA heavily relies on.

But there are other novels they could have chosen... the show very lightly (very lightly) touches on themes of tradition vs modernity. The very first episode features the arrival of a bicycle! Kluyev is bringing electricity to Zatonsk! And a phonograph! And of course, much more so in s2, where I assume by 1894 it's basically impossible to ignore the very serious social/economic/political issues of Tsarist Russia? So it makes sense that between Shtolman and Anna, being diametrically opposed in almost every way, he would be associated with a more traditional/conservative perspective (he literally represents law and order), where Anna is constantly aware of the plight of the poor, and women's subjugated status under patriarchy.

Annnnyway, rabbit hole indeed.

In closing, sharing this amusing thumbnail from imdb. Between the cross-faded images and the title, it looks like Shtolman is dead and visiting Anna as a ghost. Of course, still grumpy af.

[inkyveins]

bruh wtf was that ending to detective anna. why were there like three plot twists in the last three minutes. WHY WAS VLADIMIR LENIN THERE.

[russianperioddrama]

ROUND 2: GROUP A

[julenenka]

there's this line in French in Detective Anna that i've just noticed (guilty of watching the show non stop) that first appeared in the episode with the engineer (s01e23) when Korobeynikov reports to Shtolman and tells him the engineer left with Nezhinskaya at which Shtolman smiles unbelievingly, claps and says:

Dans chaque malheur cherchez la femme! (in every misfortune seek a woman)

clearly it's about Nina.

but in the last episode (s01e56) when Zhan stands in front of Anna with a g*n, ready to k!ll her, she asks him about Shtolman and after lowering the weapon, he says:

В каждом несчастье ищите женщину.

which means the same in French.

i would love to see gifs to compare the scenes with that same line.

still wondering if Zhan said it about Anna or about Nina.

[hadersgf]

can you actually stop it a minute though please 😭

[knotmagickstudios]

Rewatching Detective Anna...

[mystic-sunni]

Since I made the goofball mayor and also getting an ask about it here's my attempt at making Detective Anna Gram and Dr.Blandston from Goofball Island.

[briocheminded]

wait what the hell happened to the kitten Kluyev gave Anna??

lmao imagining a fox and the hound-style fic about Anna's kitten and Caesar the mouse solving barnyard mysteries for all the other animals

He had 1 job

[erainbowd]

Something Familiar About This Russian Show

Watching the Russian TV show, Detective Anna, was both enjoying and annoying. I think I've worked out why. #DetectiveAnna

Folks over on the Period Drama subreddit recommended the Russian series, Detective Anna, and as previously established, I am a particular fan of period workplace dramas about women, so this seemed right up my street. Anna is not really a detective, though. She has visions of dead people who then help her solve their murders. It’s a ghost detective show, I guess. Like a Pulling Daisies or The…

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

Hi! I recently discovered Detective Anna and of course went looking on line for more content. I think you did some of the subs? This is so dumb but I'm desperate to ask a Russian speaker: What is the word they use often to say goodbye to each other?? It sounds mostly like ČEST I MIR ? What does it literally mean? Something-and-peace? I obviously don't speak Russian, but know a few phrases and this isn't one of the like 10 different ways to say goodbye?? Is it an old-fashioned expression? So dumb lol, but if you know -- thank you!

hii welcome to the godforsaken wasteland that is the English-speaking DA fandom!

aw, but how is wanting to learn things dumb? none of that, please 💜

the phrase you're hearing is честь имею (chest' imeyu), literally translated as "i have the honor". you are right in that it's used as a goodbye expression, technically implying your respect for the person you're saying goodbye to.

the phrase came presumably from the military and over time started to be used to express practically a completely opposite thing, like, a polite way to show someone you'd rather be anywhere else talking to literally anyone else 😂 i think you can tell when that is the case from context and facial expressions of stony contempt

[briocheminded]

have seen a few "he's 37" comments on here... uh, hate to break it to all the kids, but from the perspective of my advanced age, I can tell the actor playing Yakov is at least 45 in s1

like, at least

she's supposed to be 19, the actress is probably 23? maybe 25?

he's a good actor, but it's an insane casting choice

the only thing that makes it vaguely acceptable is that 1889, this would have been *kind of* acceptable. around the same time/place in the world, my great-great-great-something grandmother was 14 when she was married off to my g-g-g-grandfather, a widower pushing-40 with 4 children ages 1-16. yes, he married a girl younger than his eldest daughter 🤮 I can't, I can't

anyway, the optics of Anna and Yakov are... not great, and it took me a minute to look past it, but now it kind of gives it an authentic vibe lol

and in my head cannon, part of the reason he's fighting so hard against her in s1 is out of a feeling of "I'm too old, she has her whole life ahead of her, I can't saddle her with my dead-inside, cynical, middle-aged bull shit"

also she's higher class, he's a broken man, he fucked up big time, he doesn't deserve happiness, etc

ok I just looked it up, Dimitry Frid was born in 1968, he was 48 in 2016, I *nailed* it

[inkyveins]

I love watching historical European soaps because very often, you can take a random screenshot and have something that could pass for a photoshoot of some sort.

Look at that. Those two are in the middle of trading barbed quips about each other and roasting the guys that kidnapped them, but they look like they're posing for a vaguely Anna Karenina-themed Glamour shoot.

Nina on the right just plopped down on a log with a dramatic declaration that whoever kidnapped them must have taken them to hell because the forest never ends. The disheveled hair and collar are really serving.

[russianperioddrama]

ROUND 1: GROUP A

[i-am-a-fish-in-this-univers]

Light stuff

[hadersgf]

so I finally finished detective anna (6302 years late I KNOW) and all I have to say is WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FINALE?????? are we getting a s3???????? we NEED a s3!!!!!!!! I NEED ANSWERS. AND I NEED THAT WEDDING MORE THAN I NEED FUCKING A I R.