"Servant of the people." Now in Russia

TNT channel a day later refused to show the most popular Ukrainian television series

There is a sequel

There will be no kina. The TNT channel deleted the series "Servant of the people" from the air. Comment by Irina Petrovskaya

The TNT channel suddenly, right in the middle of the week, changed the broadcasting net, announcing the beginning of the show of the Ukrainian television series “Servant of the People” with Vladimir Zelensky in the title role. From December 11, daily in the most prime time (19.00), instead of the series “Polar” on the air of TNT, three series “Servants of the people” will be shown at once.

Unprecedented business. Well, that is, as an "unprecedented"? Everyone who wanted to have long watched the sensational series on the Internet-on the Netflix service and in the Yandex online cinema, Kinopoisk (the exclusive Internet right to show the servants of the people “Yandex” in May of this year).

In addition, the fragments of the “servants of the people” were regularly used by propagandists in Russian socio-political talk shows as the most convincing, from their point of view, proof of “idiocy” of Ukrainian political life, as well as the illegibility and naivety of Ukrainian voters, who voted not so much for Zelensky’s politician as the image of a fair and close to the people Vasily Petrovich Golobodko, Deciding to fight injustice and corruption.

“The comedian cannot be the president” - the television rulers of the audience thoughts inspired the Russians.

And now, two days after the Summit of the Norman Four and the first personal meeting of Vladimir Putin with Vladimir Zelensky in Paris, the “servant of the people” is declared on the air of TNT - even the most important, but popular among the young audience of the Russian television channel, distant from the actual political agenda.

Is it possible to imagine that the TV channel made such an extravagant software decision independently or was the “Higher will” needed? What does it mean? Fetting in the relations of the two countries and their presidents or another attempt to discredit Zelensky?

On the website of TNT “Servant of the people” is certified as “not only a comedy in the best traditions of the genre, but also the original satire on modern politics and relations of the people and power in Ukraine.

It does not surprise anyone when life itself throws ideas for the script, but in the case of the “servant of the people” everything is exactly the opposite - the script became life. But, as practice shows, sometimes the script is good only on paper, and a person from the “people” becomes president only from the hopelessness of his own people. ”

That is, the announcement immediately sets up the audience that there is nothing good in such a transfer of the script from paper to life and cannot be. “But is there enough victory to really change the country? ... For the audience, the series has become a utopia that has nothing to do with Zelensky’s Ukraine, since in life an unprofessional politician can not take the country at all where its screen Golobodko leads, and the crowning of monologues will be the only thing that this politician will do really professionally.”

These chased formulations are least like the traditional announcement of the next series. Rather - for the installation for Russian spectators and potential voters: do not believe comedians and other unprofessional politicians who can convincingly pronounce other people's words, but not representing what to do from the power that has fallen on them. They will lead the country and their people to a dead end.

Recall that in Ukraine the series "Servant of the people" survived three seasons. The first was the air of the 1+1 channel in November 2015, the second-in October 2017 and the third-in March 2019, shortly before the presidential election. According to the results of television, the “servant of the people” became one of the most popular Ukrainian television series.