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Don't judge presenters by their programs
1. "Minute of glory" ("First"). Finally we see something unglamorous and non-gangster. Finally, ordinary people, our friends and neighbors, are heroes. The show is dramaturgically structured very precisely. Everything is intriguing: the “business card” of each person, his appearance on stage, his act (no matter how bad or good it is), the reaction of the jury, the reaction of the “artists” to the reaction of the jury, their departure backstage, their joys and grievances. Garik Martirosyan with his light irony is good, as is Maslyakov, a real KVN player, and Tolstaya with her kind of snobbery, clearly expressed taste sensations and subtle psychology. And there is no panopticon, no bullying of people; on the contrary, the program is very kind and positive.
2. A story about Elena Mukhina (program “Maximum”, NTV). In this program, always reviled by intellectuals, sometimes precious stones appear that cannot be ignored. A most poignant story about a great gymnast who was bedridden for 26 years and died last year. People like Elena Mukhina are the real heroes of our time, and not those who are imposed by the media and political circles.
3. A story about Ilya Kormiltsev (“A Week with Marianna Maksimovskaya”, REN TV). You’ll watch how the rockers confess and you’ll think: rock and roll is alive. But in the program “The Main Hero” (NTV) there was also a story about Kormiltsev, only completely different - impersonal and indifferent. Perhaps, like life itself, but then rock and roll is already dead. However, there is no doubt that "The Main Character" will grow in the ratings and will ultimately beat Tolstoy's "Time". After all, the mainstream of today's TV is to show people like in a zoo, coldly and prudently making money from it.
4. "Meanwhile" and "Apocrypha" ("Culture"). You just get physical pleasure from these conversations.
5. “School of Scandal” with journalist Kashin (NTV). Mistresses Smirnova and Tolstaya gave an exemplary performance with precise calculations, home preparations and masterly verbal combinations. Unlike the program with Ksenia Sobchak, where the presentation was largely artificial and strained.
6. Again “Naked and Funny” (DTV). Well, very funny! And spicy.
What I didn't like:
1. The unexpected disappearance of the successful presenter Sergei Brilev from the “News of the Week” program. He disappeared in the same way as those political characters that Brilev himself told us about disappear from the stage. This is the policy today. A little more, and one could ask: “was there a boy?”, maybe there was no “boy”. But, thank God, “Carlson” promised to return - already in May.
2. Gleb Pavlovsky in Real Politics (NTV) showed his speech at a conference dedicated to Roosevelt’s anniversary, where he “confused” Roosevelt with Putin several times. That is, a person indulges in sycophancy for a lot of money, and then also admires himself.
3. A gathering of court political scientists “Sunday Evening with Solovyov” (NTV), where everyone, including the presenter, poured oil for the third term. And the most daring was the Kremlin “technologist” Markov. Well, everything is like Schwartz: “I’ll tell you the whole truth, Your Majesty, you are a genius.”
Person of the month:
Maxim Galkin in the program "Apocrypha". What a clever girl! Philologist! So don’t judge the presenters by their programs, lest you be judged. Maybe now Alla Borisovna will catch up. Gentlemen Erofeev, Shvydkoy and Arkhangelsky, invite the lady to chat!