Screwed up — fofan: what premieres of TV series are waiting for us in September
The beginning of September is a real TV premiere festival: after waiting for the end of the holiday season, the creators of the TV show present to the viewer everything they have created over the long spring and summer months. The premiere of the series "Old School" about a Soviet-trained teacher will be especially appropriate on September 1. Also on Knowledge Day, we are waiting for a comedy series about a novice deputy "The Chosen One", a space comedy "Careful, people!" and "The Vineyard" with Pavel Priluchny, who is developing a new wine business for himself. Izvestia reports on the most notable TV premieres in September.
"The Chosen One"
September 1st
Okko
A shot from the TV series "The Chosen One"
Oleg Tyapin, a quiet and timid engineer at the Zakat Research Institute from the provincial city of Glebov, who is developing a new technology for producing graphene to help his native enterprise, agrees to an ordeal — he becomes a deputy of the State Duma. But it turns out that making politics for the benefit of people is not as easy as Oleg's wise senior comrades told him. In the corridors of power, as if in a jungle, danger awaits a naive novice at every turn, and only honesty, kindness and simplicity help Oleg avoid awkward and frankly dangerous situations and discover a completely different person.
Of course, it wouldn't hurt for the country to have a bit of a kind and fun information campaign. "The Chosen One" fits perfectly into this canvas — director Dmitry Gubarev, known for his work on "Physical Education Teacher", will make the audience laugh at the cholera epidemic, not to mention the lives of people's deputies. The phrase of the comic friend of the main character: "The classmate of the deputy is a synonym for the word "oligarch" gives vitality to what is happening on the screen and inspires confidence in the viewer. However, there was an engineering flaw: the existing graphene processing technologies do not require special refinement, because they are as simple as life in Glebov, and can be used even in the kitchen — for example, using a simple pencil and sticky tape. But such technological naivety is excusable for a deputy, so it seems that Oleg has left the engineers for a reason.
"Old School"
September 1st
Premier
A shot from the movie "Old School"
Maria Petrovna Trifonova (Maria Aronova) is an experienced Soviet—trained teacher, the holder of the title "Teacher of the Year", received back in Soviet times. She works at an ordinary city school, but by the will of fate and the worried offspring of high—ranking parents, she ends up at an innovative lyceum on Rublevka. There are no calls and no twos, and the conflict between the teacher and the student leads to the appearance in the courtyard of the school of a motorcade of respectable black cars full of unsmiling men who want to get an answer to a simple question: what exactly happened? And Marya Petrovna, of course, will find an answer for them, will discipline the hooligans who are proud of their own permissiveness with a strict word and a snap, and at the same time will be able to take a fresh look at the young-unfamiliar tribe in order to find a common language with her own daughter and granddaughter.
It is highly likely that during the show's hours, the sleek mirrored offices, trendy beauty salons and majestic executive offices will rapidly empty. Parents who have achieved heights in their careers, easily managing with thousands of companies, but giving up in an attempt to find a common language with the untethered younger generation, will surely like the new measure of things offered by the indomitable Maria Petrovna: a joke is a snap, a mess is a fofan. Real robbers have already grown up from the first spoiled generations, and fathers, embarrassed by their dashing behavior, are urgently looking for alternative approaches. Well, Old School will help: Marya Petrovna has never failed before.
"Forsytes"
September 1st
Amediateka
A shot from the TV series "Forsytes"
London, the end of the 19th century. The Forsyte family of industrialists and financiers is one of the pillars of high society, but serious passions are raging inside it. The head of the clan, old Jolyon, is trying to strengthen family ties, forgetting about his own youthful follies, his sister Ann defends traditional principles with all her might, and Jolyon's nephew, Soames, an ambitious successful lawyer, on the contrary, defies traditions, trying to win Irene, a free and independent young woman whose life principles become a challenge for conservative Forsytes.. Having achieved his goal, Soames, however, does not find peace: their marriage with Irene is constantly torn apart by conflicts, and when Irene falls in love with another, it leads to a split of the entire clan, part of which sympathizes with the rebel, and the rest fervently curse her.
The five-volume series of novels "The Saga of the Forsytes", completed by John Galsworthy in 1921, brought the writer worldwide fame, and soon the Nobel Prize. It is not surprising that films based on novels appeared relatively quickly: the first silent mini-films about the life of a clan of London financiers appeared already in the 1920s, and a widescreen sound film was released in 1949. However, compatriots are much more familiar with the 1962 TV series, which became the first English TV show to be purchased for Soviet television.
The 26-episode saga followed the plot of the work exactly and was recognized as a classic all over the world. The British Christopher Menall and David Moore blew up public opinion in 2002: their TV version of "Saga ..." departed from the original in almost everything — from the color of the main character's hair and eyes to the finale, which modern directors added optimism to. We still have to see which way the authors of the film adaptation will go this time, but we can be sure of one thing: the audience will find a strong historical television narrative traditional for British shows with careful elaboration of details, including costumes, hairstyles, canes and carriages of the Victorian era. The story of the Forsytes will undoubtedly delight the eye, we will find out the rest soon.
"Grapes"
September 1st
Kion
A shot from the TV series "Grapes"
The successful manager Egor Antonov (Pavel Priluchny — "Major", "Combination") has everything: a prestigious job, a car of the latest model, his own spacious house and a beautiful wife. And he owes all this to his father-in-law, the oligarch. He, to tell the truth, does not like his provincial son-in-law, who, thanks to a successful marriage with his daughter, got out of the mud into the princes, and carefully looks after him in anticipation of trouble. They will not take long to wait: a light affair with an intern at his own company immediately becomes known to the patriarch of the family — and Yegor is suddenly left without a family, money and a job. The only way to get out of the hole is the vineyards he happened to have near his native Anapa. Trying to start life anew, Egor rediscovers himself and realizes what is truly valuable in life.
The genre of wine cinema has long been steadily popular in the world: from "The Secret of Santo Vittoria", an Oscar nominee in 1969 to "The Good Year" with Russell Crowe and Marillon Cotillard, such films are invariably successful at the box office. Mesmerizing sunset landscapes in vineyards, the sun in a glass and love against the background of the plains of Burgundy and the hills of Tuscany, and most importantly — the fleur of unhurried mystery, so characteristic of winemaking with its slow mystery and age-old rituals that turn berry juice into a drink of the gods. However, Priluchny is somewhat fussy for the genre: his non-stop pursuit of fake Dolce Gabbana glasses from the Anapa market somewhat contrasts with the work of winemakers, who traditionally shy away from external brilliance. However, the vineyards will still give him an awareness of family values.
"Careful, people!"
September 1st
STS
A shot from the TV series "Careful, people!"
A small, evil alien, who crashed during a space trip, has entered the body of the spineless and unresponsive teacher of the Semyonov Faculty of Philology. The universal gradually learns about the life of earthlings and is horrified to learn how stupidly they waste oil: after all, for his planet it is the highest value with which to create a cure for all diseases. The alien begins to make plans to destroy humanity, and when there is no suitable recipe on the Internet, he tries to summon his relatives to Earth so that they can descend with all their might on the unsuspecting inhabitants of the Earth. But philologist Semenov resists the intruder as best he can, trying to tell his family and colleagues about the threat. Alas, they don't take the philologist seriously — not even his colleague, whom Semenov is increasingly sympathetic to. Perhaps it is their feelings that will not help the invasion to take place.
It seems that philologists, these harmless butterflies, innocent scavengers of book pages, are especially vulnerable to intruders. I remember that in Michael Nichols' 1994 film "The Wolf," Jack Nichols' character was possessed by a werewolf - and all because Nicholson's character, a rare case for an actor, was a quiet, humble publisher, that is, the same philologist. However, Nicholson's character couldn't complain: it was his wolfish persona that eventually attracted the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer. The alien hypostasis of Semenov, alas, is unlikely to attract anyone: the habits of eating with your hands, smearing food on your face, sleeping in sweatpants, and running down the street, on the contrary, in family underpants, are not the most attractive even for undemanding ladies. Well, as a philologist, so is an ecumenist.
Gazeta
September 5th
Sky
A shot from the TV series "Gazeta"
The film crew, who worked on a documentary series about the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company, continues to record the workdays of office workers. This time, her choice falls on a provincial newspaper, which in the age of the Internet is breathing hard, unable to keep up with new technological trends. To stay afloat, the publisher hires a new editor-in—chief with a fresh mindset, and he decides to rely on unprofessional reporters-volunteer bloggers, the unemployed, and other losers who are eager to try their hand at the genre of truth-seeking. The sleepy everyday life of the editorial office is replaced by hustle and bustle, in which madness occupies an increasingly dominant place...
The series takes place in the reality of the cult TV series "The Office" — "Gazeta" was shot in the same pseudo-documentary style by the creators of the British and American "Offices" Ricky Gervais and Greg Daniels. So a healthy laugh is guaranteed. In the role of the editor—in—chief is the red-haired Irishman Domhnall Gleeson, who played Levin in Anna Karenina in the company of Keira Knightley and Jude Law - movie connoisseurs have a chance to laugh again at this memory.
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