Trigger

Trigger

How far can you go?

Created by Dmitry Tyurin

On Channel One, Kinopoisk

2020–4 seasons40 episodes7.9 / 10

A morally ambiguous psychological drama where a disgraced therapist uses provocative methods to solve others' crises while wrestling with his own culpability and redemption.

Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

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