He is trying to make Natasha the birthday girl the focus of the conversation, but the family keeps talking about him. Servant of the People premiered in Ukraine in 2015, starring Zelensky – then known as a comic actor – as a regular guy-turned-president named Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko. It won the Best Featured TV Series and Best Producer awards by Teletriumph and was nominated for Seoul International Drama Awards’s Best Comedy in 2016.Tanya Tanyarattinan is a third-year, Thai international student at the University of Denver, double majoring in International Studies and Economics with minors in Russian and Japanese. After everyone calms down, the class tells Holoborodko that if he is actually to register, their parents will vote for him. Servant of the People is a Ukrainian political satire comedy television series that premiered on 16 October 2015. He answers them by reading the responses off of a script that officials have already prepared for him.Meanwhile, the three oligarchs are watching this press conference live while having a very fancy meal together. Voters will have a chance to compare the models at a debate between Mr. Poroshenko and Mr. Zelensky scheduled for Either way, the fact that the electoral system can throw up an outsider, and that Ukrainians are actively searching for the better option, bears witness to a functioning democracy.
One of them makes a call, demanding to get every piece of information about Holoborodko.At the press conference, Holoborodko can no longer pretend. He rushes to get ready, arguing with his family who shares the apartment. They tell him that they have crowdsourced the funds online. Before Holoborodko enters the room, he remembers the last time he was called in here. Amidst the frivolity, another flashback shows the student who recorded the video earlier being beaten by his classmates. With an interest in pursuing a career in politics, she travels to see how the world works from different perspectives. Volodymyr Zelensky as Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko in Servant of the People. At one point, he claims that if given one week in office, he can show them what is to be done. In April, Ukrainian voters took a desperate gamble and elected as their president a television performer who played a humble 30-something schoolteacher, Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, on … There is a long line, but the customers there recognize him and let him cut the line to pay first. She berates him in front of the other faculty members.Back in the present, Holoborodko walks in, afraid that his boss will berate him again. The Committee of Voters of Ukraine demanded Zelensky pay for the broadcast of the third season of the TV series as a political advertisement. Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, who is a high school history teacher, is the main character. When he leaves to buy peas for his wife (and Holoborodko’s mother), Maria Holoborodko, Maria also gets a call. One turns the TV off, and they start talking. He has posted the video online, and other students are afraid that there will be consequences for Holoborodko, a favorite teacher.
The other bands members appear and the family gets a private concert as the episode ends.Anthony Kao from the Cinema Escapist gave a lot of positive feedback to this series in his article “Ukraine’s “Servant of the People” Is a Hidden Gem of Political ComedyOn the other side of the coin, political analyst Valery Maydanyuk, along with Professor Larisa Masenko of the Ukrainian Language Department of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, journalist Tatyana Kuzminchuk, and others, criticize the show for its extensive use of Russian language over Ukrainian by politicians in official events, which they interpret as “language schizophrenia.” The show is mostly in Russian, with some Ukrainian dialogue, and obviously assumes its viewers are bilingual. As if it was predicting a political phenomenon that will actually happen years later, the show tells the story of Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, an ordinary high school teacher who, through the power of social media, became the President of Ukraine. In a flashback, Holoborodko is giving one of his students a D during his history class. As he is leaving, his students from class 10B run out and surround him. It tells the story of Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko (Volodymyr Zelensky), a high-school history teacher in his thirties who unexpectedly wins election to the presidency of Ukraine, after a viral videofilmed by one of his students shows him ranting i… Yana Klymenko, a journalist from Transparent Government Magazine, then asks how he got two million hryvnia (about $90,000 when the episode first aired) to register his candidacy. He also has a faculty meeting at school and must make payment on his loan at the bank. Infuriated that his class has been selected for this, Holoborodko launches into a foul-mouthed criticism of the government, its priorities, corruption, and incompetence.