The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt
The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.7 |
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About
"Teenage brotherhood curdling into brutal criminal loyalty"
Set in Soviet Kazan during the 1980s, this Russian series follows a shy teenager pulled into the city's real-life street gang culture, where entire neighborhoods organized into rigidly coded criminal brotherhoods. It plays like a coming-of-age drama wrapped in a crime saga, tracking how peer pressure, poverty and a strict code of loyalty turn ordinary kids into violent enforcers. The tone is bleak and tense, heavy on atmosphere and period detail, carried by strong young performances and a slow tightening sense of dread rather than action-movie thrills. It became a major talking point at home for how vividly it depicts that world.
the unflinching, atmospheric recreation of a real teenage gang subculture and the performances driving it.
you want fast pacing or find sustained bleakness and youth violence hard to sit through.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Step outside | 7.7 | 476 | 51 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | A completely different disco | 7.9 | 427 | 52 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | One fist is a threat, and ten is already a disaster | 8.1 | 432 | 53 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Like in the movies | 7.7 | 407 | 49 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Honest business | 8.7 | 493 | 55 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | The streets are unforgiving | 7.7 | 377 | 50 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Andrey is looking for ways to protect his family | 7.9 | 333 | 53 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | Someone gave up, someone gave up | 7.7 | 322 | 58 min |