"It's just disgusting": U.S. press about the show "Matryoshka"

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"disgusting": U.S. press about the show "Matryoshka"

Vladimir Kozlovsky
Russian service Bi-bi-si, New York

Creators of the reality show Russian Dolls ("Matryoshka" or "Russian dolls"), transiently excited the Russian-language New York, perhaps, comforting theory that the bad publicity does not happen. Or not, because while their child is honored with a rather mocking reviews in the American press.

Typical first words from a review of Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times. "If the Soviet authorities set out to expose the most intolerable of Alexander Solzhenitsyn torture - writes Stanley - they would have made him look" dolls. "If the wife set out to frighten his itinerant men and get them to button up his fly, then they would show them" dolls " .

Starting zaupokoy, the author continues not for health. "There are a few husbands and boyfriends - writes Stanley - but most of the production is dedicated to women, including housewives, middle-aged power and their mothers. With collagen and Restylane are living dolls: open one doll, and inside will be as unnatural smaller doll ".

According to the author of the candidates for these roles, "obviously, there was no lack; producers easily scored a clutch of ambitious, vulgar tranzhirok ready to sizzle on the team, smarten up and weep in front of the camera. For some reason, citing Pushkin violinists and math geeks from Brighton Beach, it has not attracted. "

"Some Americans of Russian descent, might be offended," Doll "and join the ranks of Americans of Italian descent, which still derives from a" Jersey Shore ", or African-Americans who resent the" Real Housewives of Atlanta "- writes retsenzentka, referring to other programs in the same genre. - But how can a hydrogen bomb does not happen without a thermonuclear reaction, a reality show does not happen without the stereotypes. "

Even last year, when rumors of preparations for the shooting of "dolls" which were called "Brighton Beach" project for the reputation of imitators "Jersey Coast." But now the liberal New York Daily News notes that the "Russian" Jersey Shore "failed miserably".

"It is an endless torture some"

[SPOILER] "Matryoshka" is far from "Jersey Coast" - concludes the newspaper critic Richard Huff. - He takes the audience of his stupidity. "Matryoshka" is just disgusting. "

Huff mentions a scene in which one of the main nesting dolls - a 34-year-old Marina Levitis, whose family owns a Russian restaurant, "Rasputin", outraged the protracted contest in exile "Come on Grandma," taking place at a rival restaurant, the "National".

"It's an endless torture some" - Marina snorts.

"That feeling is emerging from the" dolls "- ironically Huff. - This show is - pure torture ... Characters vulgar, tasteless and completely unsympathetic. What could be a great disadvantage to the TV, unless it is" the most sought after in America " .

According to the reviewer's Daily News, all reality shows are made for one recipe. "Take a group of ordinary townsfolk, who are willing to do anything to show them on TV - he writes. - Get them to talk on camera and reveal their innermost feelings or what they take for these feelings. Add to that food, drink , bikinis, a hint of sex - and that you have a reality show! ".

Like several other critics, Huff cites some maxims, carried on television. "Russian women love to flirt, - says one of the two dolls male named Eddie Z - but they never share their goods." - "Sometimes they just want to go to a restaurant for free" - SECOND character named Albert. - "Sometimes?" - Asks Eddie.

The reviewer concludes on the next note: "If you once again to quote Marina:" I can not! I'm with you on FIG kill ".

Critic of the conservative New York Post Linda Stacey finds a "matryoshka" a flaw: she says, "most of the characters - not from Russia, and Ukraine!"

Russian sterepotipy

"However, - specifies the author - they call themselves Russian, live in Brighton Beach, and believe that the size of the jewelry and fur coats iceberg the size of a polar bear is an integral part of the wardrobe. In other words, all the Russian stereotypes there."

Network Jewish magazine Tablet, for its part, notes that the new show "depicts the Russian-American Jews in Brighton Beach, which is not praise America and its Jews, and the ability to show a Russian stereotypes."

Magazine writer Allison Hoffman notes, for example, that the comely heroine named Diane Kosov ("Why can not Kosovo? - Asks one reader. - Is it a man? It seems that yes ...") is a hefty star of David," which hangs on her protruding chest dramatically. "

Along the way, Hoffman notes that in the first series of "dolls" blonde Diana, which some critics called "chemical blonde" tearing relationship with his boyfriend named Paul, because she wanted a Russian, and he - "Hispanic" (that is, obviously, Hispanic).

"Matryoshka" confirm the observation - the author concludes - that 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its exiles, Jews in America have found a place where they are finally free to be Russian. "

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