This show has everything a good show needs: budget, good team of actors and technicians, interesting concept. Sadly, it serves as a perfect example that you can't have a good show without a good writer. There are some attempts at character development and a few good plot lines, which, unfortunately, end up being unintelligible mess. I couldn't really understand what authors were aiming for - this show lacks in motivation, depth and logic to be dramatic, but it also lacks in cruelty and sharpness to be a kind of an absurd black comedy. Either way, while a couple of first episodes are quite decent or at least tolerable, it all goes to hell towards the end. There's no rhythm or logic to characters or events, which makes it very hard to actually believe in the story and be empathetic with its heroes. The biggest problem of course is Anna Nikolaevna, who gets close to none development at all - we don't really see her recognizing emotions in herself and falling in love, but we also don't see her as a capable machine faking human reactions to fit in. Sadly, it's not a twist leaving you with a question "Did she really feel anything or was it just a play?", it's a bad writing leaving you with a question "What did I just watch?".
And, towards the source of problems. The show is terribly sexist and quite homophobic, not slightly in the ironic way. When you start to get invested - BAM - good plot line or set up ends with some blatant sexism, which could be perceivable by 2000 standards, but in 2020 is just... Meh. Same with gay homophobic "jokes" - in 2020 without any sort of meta-commentary or irony it just seems awkward and boring. Or just plain awful, considering current political situation in Russia.
And yeah, the biggest issue with the show is that it could've been good. It had all the opportunities to be good, but whoever wrote the script decided to spoil all the fun. I honestly wonder if it was written by someone capable and another someone completely incompetent or by a decent writer who gets blinded by his misogyny from time to time thus ruining whatever good he has already written, because the show has good premise and several decently started storylines - that unfortunately go nowhere or turn into irritating mess.
