Tuesday, November 29, 2022

S2 E9

That was a pretty cute episode. I actually laughed*. There is no way Sergey can get through a meeting with the IMF head without Vasya being present and so, with Oksana's agreement, they stall for time until the next day by getting the IMF delegation drunk on vodka in "traditional Ukrainian toasts"--to everything? (P.S. Lovely Ania has been very subtly outted by Yulya, who Vasya has had released from prison and made PM so that Ukraine can get money stolen by the oligarchs (ethical sword). (P.S.S. There was a problem with the translation in E8: "consequences" was mistranslated as "coincidences".))

*I haven't laughed much in the last several episodes. Zelensky wrote Goloborodko as too much of a worrywart. Goloborodko has not embodied the good humor of the Ukrainian people much lately. Zelensky also has this odd quirk as a screenwriter, noted here before (most prominently in S2 E1), of interrupting present scenes with dreams, day or sleep, that are presented seamlessly, hence confusingly, for the audience. That occurred, agayne, in E8.