Servant of the People

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mc2fool
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Servant of the People

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Dunno if anyone else caught it, but Channel 4 has run the first 3 episodes of Servant of the People, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's -- yes, he, the President of Ukraine -- satirical comedy about a high school history teacher who is elected President of Ukraine after a video of him ranting about government corruption is filmed and uploaded to YouTube by one of his students.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ser ... the-people

It's a bit of a surreal watch to start with, having spent the last couple of weeks watching a deadly serious Zelenskyy on the evening news in his military green sweat shirt, but I pretty soon got into it, increasingly so across the three episodes, and got quite a few good laughs out of it. (Despite some occasional translation and timing issues with the subtitles.)

There's no indication at the moment that Ch4 will broadcast any further episodes but I hope they do. In the meanwhile, for those that didn't catch them live, the first 3 episodes are available at the link above ... :)

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