When positive feelings from viewing a good product outweigh small shortcomings and desires, then you need to write a positive review. Like I am now.
The series looked in one breath. The plot is clear immediately and he says that a lot of dishonest money is bad. The whole first season shows the plots and unsuccessful attempts of the characters (two plumbers) to get hold of money quickly, but each time they fail. And after all, you catch yourself thinking every time: “Well, why didn’t it work out, still it just happened.” I would have been able to do it in their place. That is, we ourselves, like these characters of the series, crave easy “wrong” money. The second season added drama, where we are shown the possible sad consequences of such riches. The reward is always inevitable for everything we do. All of this was shown to us as a comedy.
In a word, everything was clear and clear. And if someone writes that somewhere was not too deeply played or not finished. I'll tell you to wake up! It’s a comedy and that’s what the guys wanted to do. You can see that they themselves enjoyed filming, burned, and this was conveyed to us in the series. Have fun and laugh. That was great!
What was missing (not a minus for me):
- I want a little longer. Sometimes, when you tune in to the plot, you realize with amazement that this series is already over. Maybe it was done specifically. And if you think about it, other TV shows really unnecessarily smear the plot for 40 minutes, when you could fit into 10-15, like here. But it just so happened that I wanted a little longer.
- There are no other disadvantages, so there are none.
I wish the creators not to stop there and continue to amaze the audience with their infectious art. People have so many vices that can be played with humor. You can and should laugh at yourself. Thank you for the show.
The series is about two plumbers, although the series is very difficult to call. Rather, it is one sketch stretched for 7-10 minutes. Each series is like a separate story, where two plumbers get a chance to easily earn money, violating several articles of the Criminal Code along the way. But each time the hypertrophied greed of one plumber and the fear of another prevent it from happening.
Absolutely detached from reality, a kind of retelling of Dumb and Dumb. The whole series does not lose the feeling that it was filmed somewhere in the United States by people who know about Russia only by Hollywood cranberries. It feels like Kulika and Kriven were being held hostage and they could not influence the filming process, and in particular the script. Come on, Kulik, he's been in this golden party for 7 years. But Krivenya, who became famous for the image of an ordinary Russian peasant, has he also forgotten about reality?
In one episode, the motivation for stealing money was a mother-in-law who was going to die, but they did not have money for a place in the cemetery. She was afraid of being buried in a ditch, in a mass grave. After the earnings failed, the hero offers her mother-in-law to bury her in the country, at the greenhouse. Does the author think this is funny and relevant? All right.
Plumbing has long not lived as we show in the series.
The heroes have nothing positive, at any opportunity they are ready to cross the law for easy gain. It may seem that one of the characters has a conscience, but it is not - it is fear.
Until now, it remains a mystery to me how people who still had some humor and charisma outside the walls of the KVN absolutely lose it. Where he goes on the road is absolutely not clear, because somewhere else he also does not appear.
In the series, almost everything is bad, fictional situations, lack of humor or acting, and most importantly, you just do not want to worry about the characters. It feels like it was filmed just to be, not worrying at all about what will happen. Perhaps this is somehow connected with the system of cooperation with Kinopoisk, where the series was exclusively released.
I do not recommend, it is enough to get acquainted with only one series to understand that the same will continue.
It is necessary to mix differently, the genre of fictional stories remained somewhere at the beginning of the zero, along with a sold-out and laughter panorama.
To be funny, you need to take realistic characters and put them in a realistic or semi-realistic situation. You need to have something realistic or heroes or a situation or all of it. When everything is made up, it is perceived as a farce.
There's a series called Earth, especially Season 3, that's who you had to learn from. . .
You do not immediately understand that he is trying to talk about sad through a seemingly banal comedy plot - two losers are trying to get lungs.
money. In the first season, it gradually becomes clear that the main thing is not the plot, but the characters themselves, their aspirations, their simple everyday problems and family relationships. Although the authors gave a hint that in the second season, the plot will be the driving force.
Gradually penetrate these two knaves and follow them as for a long time familiar and close people. You're sorry.
You start to love them and you start to love them.
Couple Alexey Krivenya and Evgeny Kulik – for me, probably the best blow this serial year. Very organically played actresses Natalia Soboleva and Julia Grishayev their wives. It's a woman-wife archetype. The first, tortured by life and lack of money, sawfish, the second - selflessly loving and not noticing the shortcomings of her husband.
The actors are clearly selected for supporting roles. No one falls out of the general stated style.
Each series is interesting in its own way, or rather each time it is a new criminal story, sometimes hypertrophied, with a comedic ending for the viewer and deplorable for the main characters.
The end of the season brings the dramatic element to the fore. Apparently, in the second season we are waiting for an unusual change of genre. It will be interesting to see this experiment.
I can’t say which series I thought was the best, because you watch the first series, like it, watch the next one, and it’s even funnier (and sometimes more serious!)
The series is clearly not going to “go” for everyone. But if it does, it will be 100%. This always happens when the judge of the viewer takes something out of the general serial mass.
I recommend it to everyone!
10 out of 10
Let’s analyze in detail why the series failed and what is positive here.
Humor itself as an abstract quantity is present here. The authors burned when they filmed it, and it feels like it. According to the author of this series and his sketches, you can study the nature of humor.
The characters themselves are not real, you never believe in any situation. On the other hand, does comedy need authenticity? Yeah. Alas, but it is necessary, and the more authentically the situations would have been written - the greater the response would have been from the audience. Kulik, with all due respect, lives the blogging bohemian life of a metropolitan Internet boy. He just honestly thinks plumbers live like this, cops like this, that family relationships are like this, etc. That's the downside. The author, you need a co-author with whom you could work on the following principles: 1) either you write sketches, and the co-author gives this psychological authenticity and depth, semantic and philosophical layer, 2) or the co-author writes a “fish”-concept semantic, and you sketch sketch. As a self-sufficient author for the construction of full-fledged works of art (not online sketches) You're not good yet. And don’t rush to indignate or “prove” – you just have your own talent. Indeed, humor with you on the same wavelength. Yes, that's right.
That's basically all I wanted to say. The series lacked more depth and relevance (it is clear that everyone needs money, but I am talking about psychological authenticity and the concept of a movie about our day).
As a result, for humor 7, for reliability 3, the result is
Last week, a big event took place – the debut project of Yevgeny Kulik’s studio. And, I must say, it was extremely successful!
With delight and fading heart followed the vicissitudes of two ridiculous plumbers, in the role of which Alexey Krivenya and Eugene Kulik successfully got used to.
Let's take everything in order.
The first thing you pay attention to is the quality of the shooting. It's at the top. It is no longer a sketch, but a professional film.
The whole team worked hard. I especially want to mention the work of the operator, it is beautiful. Finding aesthetics in the daily routine is worthy of applause.
Sound design is high. Nothing superfluous, each composition to a point.
Actors are amazing. In every scene, it’s like watching the real lives of the characters. The feeling is indescribable and forgotten. Looking at the modern plastic heroes of the body of comedies, you do not immediately remember that the actor should live, and not crook. And you live your emotions with him.
Plot.
Initially, it looks like a series of comedy sketches about two plumbers, but you do not notice how the plot picks you up and with each episode the atmosphere becomes more serious.
After watching Season 7, I couldn’t believe what happened. This is a complete step beyond comedy. The authors declared the series as Tragicomedy, probably it is. I have never seen such a transition before.
The only thing that keeps Jeka and Lehu together is friendship. And it's crumbling right before our eyes. Not only does it collapse, it turns 180 degrees. This change is very interesting.
Disadvantages.
The series is scolded for the stupidity of the actions of the main characters. This may seem like it in the first episode, but I saw the life behavior of people who first decided to go into crime. In any case, I am surprised by this opinion, given that the favorite spectacle of our compatriots is football.
For some, the series seems monotonous. But. Personally, I didn't get bored. The series lasts for 10 minutes and you watch the whole season like one movie. On the contrary, you will never guess where the heroes will go. And by the last series of the season, the series is so accelerated that you understand why you needed a leisurely pace in the beginning.
Summary.
The series is remembered for its deep atmosphere and strong immersion. Great humor, sometimes to tears. I think everyone will find something in the series. For me, this is a series about friendship.
And advice to those watching. If the first series seemed slow, don’t stop! Give the show a chance. I gave, and I didn't regret it.
The series 'Two' more like a humorous sketch show, where almost all series use the same model of plot development: one locksmith finds an allegedly easy way to get rich, and his childhood friend and colleague at work strongly discourages, hinting at a sad outcome, and in the end always turns out to be right. You can immediately forget about some development of the characters here, but the characters themselves are quite integral, self-sufficient and alive, and thanks to successful casting on the screen they look with interest.
It is better not to find fault with the production, since it was filmed clearly for three pennies. Everything is as simple as possible, cheap and head-on with a minimum number of locations. Jokes as such here can be counted on the fingers of one hand, but there is a twist, charm and necessary chemistry between the actors. The series is very short for 10 minutes, except for the last, in which the authors, having sharply changed the vector of the genre direction, enter the field of a dramatic series with all the ensuing consequences, where everyone will definitely not be up to jokes. By the way, the series ends in a half-word, breaking off at the most intriguing moment, so you do not need to wait or look for another episode online in horror. We will see the continuation only next season. In general, the series is fun, but a passing from the series ' I watched and forgot' without any chips and original author's handwriting. In other words, the series is empty, although there were all prerequisites to make it complete, from the characters to the story itself.