You know how Dickens wrote in installments in periodicals? Obviously, Zelensky wrote Servant of the People in installments, maybe, as Dickens did, without a whole in mind when he began. Servant has that herky-jerky feel to it, as does Dickens' Bleak House.
Servant's spontaneous combustion moment was Vasya's resignation in E15. I thought maybe he could take it back but Zelensky thought it would be a good idea if he didn't and have Vasya announce that he was running in the new election again. (?)
You know how I wrote that Olya in E16 was so guilty and disgusted with Dmitry's corruption right in the back seat of the new presidential limousine that she couldn't stand him touching her hand?
Vasya and his remaining team can't raise the 2.5M Ukrainian hrynas to pay the election qualification fee and meet outside at the Goloborodko home to discuss fundraising ideas when Olya and Dmitry show up--arm in arm!--and Dmitry announces that he has paid Vasya's election fee. Olya, who knows that Dmitry is corrupt, assures Vasya when he protests that "The money is clean"...which of course is another admission that she knows that that is not always the case with Dmitry. With that assurance from his corruption-enabling ex-wife Vasya accepts. And then Dmitry reveals the catch: He, Dmitry, has filed for the election, too. But, "at the last moment I'll withdraw and throw my support to you." Vasya takes him at his word without hesitation. The ethical Rubik's Cube is spinning like a gyroscope. I'll close with this criticism with extreme prejudice of Zelensky-the-screenwriter: That's bullshit, man.
