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Putin's secret weapons
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TV DNA
How Putin's secret weapons actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Putin's secret weapons reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
The Russian army has no shortage of weapons despite sanctions: With an arsenal mixing old Soviet stocks and modern hypersonic weapons, the country could strike Europe in minutes. An opaque network of spies, shell companies and oligarchs ensures its war capacity through the arms trade, technology theft and state-organized policy of terror.
Behind the series
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Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Martin BoudotProducer
Direction
- Hugo Van OffelDirector
- Martin BoudotDirector
Music
- Fabien DoulutOriginal Music Composer
- Florian PoirierOriginal Music Composer
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