It’s a rare feat for any movie or TV series to whitewash some of the most brutal moments in history to such an extent that it actually makes it positively desirable.
And yet, the new television series on Paramount+, A Gentleman in Moscow, somehow accomplishes this. The story takes place during the decades following the Bolshevik Revolution, as the protagonist, the “gentleman” Alexander Petrov, is sentenced to life-long house arrest. As such, he spends his life in a kind of Potemkin luxury hotel in Moscow, insulated from the horrors of the Lenin, Stalin, and Kruschev regimes. Consequently, the show is primarily about him making the most of his time at the hotel and remaining blissfully ignorant of the world beyond.
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