Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Servant S1 E5

Yuriya asks Vasya how he likes the splendor of the presidential office. "Honestly, I would remove everything. My parents raised me differently." Meanwhile Vasya's father is "supervising", while he sips brandy and Irish movers and interior decorators as they redo the decor of his 20 year-old flat with three generations living under its roof in the "Versailles" style.



Vasya attends his first cabinet meeting. Yuriya makes formal intro of the ministers. Che appears,😀 telling Vasya the "real" story on each and urging Vasya to execute them all. 


 

"I am a president, not a tyrant," Vasya replies. 

"Why don't you say something?" Che asks, trying to shame Vasya. 

"Silence is an argument carried out by other means," the new president answers. "You said that."

"The floor is yours, Mr. President," Vuliya says and Vasya then gives a Che speech in his mind excoriating each minister personally and all collectively, threatening to hit each with the mace of office. 

"Why don't you speak, Vasya?" Yuriya breaks the silence with Che's own question. 

Vasya is not a Latin revolutionary, not a "tyrant" like Putin and the czars. He's Ukrainian. He will execute nobody. 

Walking to the Chamber of Deputies Yuriya braces Vasya that the legislators are "a little tense" (in fact they are engaged in fist fights). "I'm a little tense myself," Vasya answers candidly and reassures Yuriya with a variation of what could be the official motto of the Ukrainian people.

 
 As he enters the Chamber and sees the spectacle that the Speaker is trying to calm, Vasya tries to get their attention without success before lighting on the trick that works.


 

Once he has the Deputies' attention Vasya does deliver a Che-like speech.

And then walks out.