The New Guy

A slow, unsettling unravelling of small-town secrets that keeps you uneasy and watchful, more about what's hidden than what's shown.

Created by

Irina Guryanova, Oksana Barkovskaya

Genres

Drama

Starring

Gleb Kalyuzhny, Anna Demidova, Vitaliy Shcherbina

Overview

Max is the new guy in school, he’s just moved from Moscow and the big city lights where he was at private school, and now he’s the new kid at a local school in a provincial town in Russia. After going to a classmate’s birthday party, he just disappears. The investigation starts to peel layer after layer off not just Max’s life, but the lives of his classmates, revealing secrets that they’d rather keep hidden. Bullying, early drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence all come to light – and not everyone is shocked, but who’s responsible? The New Guy looks at what happens when people you trust turn a blind eye.

How it feels

Dark, tense, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, coming-of-age, guilt, betrayal

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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