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Anybody watching this a.k.a. "Dead Mountain" on the TOPIC channel?

posted 3 years ago by FeeCJ (123)
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What an amazing Russian tv show. Very high concept filming, story, acting.

I realize it's telling a specific story about a specific historic event in the former USSR, but Oleg and Katya are such compelling characters, especially Oleg (!) that it would be fantastic for the producers to find another show and story for them.

With him a KBG agent and her a doctor and pathologist, the story writes itself back in 1959! :-))))))))))

More please! (And we still have not seen all of it....Topic is doling out eps every week, gah!)

[–] McQualude (4231) 3 years ago

The real life story is, and always has been, fodder for conspiracy nuts. I'm guessing the series plays around with that?

[–] FeeCJ (123) 3 years ago

It does seem so far anyway to be taking a measured approach to what happened to the young people. Oleg mostly is doing a kind of CSI approach. But there are slight hints that other ideas may come to the fore.

But we are not far enough in yet to see where they are really going. The spiritual ideas were introduced when the students ran into the native people. But not much has been made of it yet.

So far, Oleg the KGB investigator from Moscow, seems to have both feet on the ground, ha. Though, there is an interlude at the beginning in a flash back when Oleg was a soldier in the war and he and his squad ran in to some strange German castle that had odd associations and things going on that did not seem quite "of this world."

Not sure what they will do with THAT experience of Oleg's, either, at this point. I cannot yet tell if Oleg is open to truly cosmic explanations, haha.

[–] McQualude (4231) 3 years ago

The original reports don't include much information, and there was so much speculation and wild stories made up by the media that some of it was misunderstood to be facts. I don't have the Topic channel, but I'll keep an eye out.

[–] lasteven (305) 3 years ago

Yes! I really love it. I’ve read a lot about the incident itself and a wide range of possible explanations. I lean toward something natural, but it’s a strange one no matter how you slice it.

I really love the set up with Oleg and Katy’s and the back-and-forth of the episodes between past and present. I was a Russian major in college, and this is a really great production. Enjoying it so much — yes, more about Oleg and Katya would be a great idea.

[–] FeeCJ (123) 3 years ago

So in the end they did seem to lean toward a rational explanation didn't they? But I enjoyed how they still left it a bit open to other local native mysticism.

It was a very nice conclusion and seemed to balance the "unknowns" well.

Yes yes yes. more Katy and Oleg.

The interaction between them, especially their professional problem solving, leaves open all kinds of crime solving opportunities for them if the producers wish to do a follow up series about another "crime."

They were both very intriguing characters....especially Oleg.

[–] letess (1037) 3 months ago

Dead Mountain. This was spectacular. And to find out that the director of the True Detective S4 - Night Country was heavily influenced by this actual event at the Dyatlova Pass - watch this instead. This Russian series is mesmerizing. Nine students led by Igor Dyatlov go on a ski hike in the Ural Mountains and never return. In February. The blizzard to end all blizzards. And there’s the Inuit storyline.

Topic has done an incredible job of bringing the most interesting of detective series to us - people will have to read (should read) subtitles tho - but Pagan’s Peak, Salamander - of course, the originals of Spiral, The Killing (Danish), The Bridge (Danish/Swedish) and to a lesser extent the French Guyana one, Iskander, and the Bulgarian one - Devil’s Throat and Arctic Circle.