Why is the majority of the audience dismissive of the series? Because making a really good and high-quality product is very difficult and expensive, because unlike a full-length film, this is a long story with a sequel. Can it be called a quality domestic sitcom? Let's try to judge, based on the list of series "Happy Together".
When are people really happy?
When a family has love, mutual interest and sympathy for each other. When relationships are built with a sense of humor and sexual attraction. When a couple has mutual friends and children grow in harmony. Perhaps, you will not find more general characteristics for a happy family. Perhaps this is why you can endlessly shoot series about everyday situations and ups and downs of family life. What they bring to the masses is "Happy Together." The television series revolves around the story of the family of Gena Bukin, a modest shoe seller in a store in Yekaterinburg. Especially the creators of the sitcom wanted to distance themselves from the metropolitan framework and show the lives of ordinary people. Genes has a bright and active wife named Dasha and two children. Dasha is a typical housewife who loves living for her pleasure, watching TV, eating sweets and molesting her husband for marital duty. The couple’s children are very peculiar. Sweet, but silly Sveta and clever Roma are absolute opposites. The Bukins have neighbors - Lena and Tolik Poleno, a rather wayward couple, where Lena is a very mercantile person, and Tolik is a former criminal, gigantic and cunning. Lena had her first husband - Zhenya Stepanov, who left his wife for the dream of becoming a huntsman. Spouses Logs are relatively happy together. The television series shows the relationship of "polar pairs", which pathologically requires communication. Thanks to contact with friends, they really live in harmony.
Story lines
The series is a classic situational comedy, and therefore does not have a single plot line. Each series is a separate story that has a beginning and an end. Although it happens that several episodes are united by a common sense. The series is very light and relaxing. It is really suitable for the whole family and charges positive for the day. They say that laughter prolongs life, but here seriously enough reasons to laugh.
Perhaps you can’t call the series “Happy Together” really high-quality. The description of the family of heroes did not make them a role model, because they do not have stable life principles, sufficiently low moral standards and down-to-earth desires. The series will not make you think about the eternal or imbued with the philosophy of being. But he will help to relax after a busy day, forget about the grouchy boss and a small salary. There is subtle humor and simple jokes, and light irony shines through the plot. The viewing will be enjoyable, but it is unlikely that anyone will take the behavior into reality.
From the history
In the series “Happy Together”, the Bukins live in an ordinary house on Gagarin Street, although their apartment is very pretty and bright. In fact, the series was shot the first three seasons based on the American analogue of "Married ... with children." Since season 4, the script has become an original Russian. The premiere took place in March 2006. World Women's Day saw the start of the series "Happy Together" (series 1 - "Meet the Neighbors"). In 2008, the third season ended on the episode "Sexual Mensheviks." Then the filming slowed down, as there was no script, base for work. Then a competition for the best script was announced. The situation was complicated by the position of Sony Pictures, but a compromise was found. At the end of 2009, four premiere episodes of the new season were aired. Season 5 lasted for 2010, and then 6 began, which was divided into three mini-seasons. The sixth season was the final, as the ratings of the series began to fall.
Central hero
Gene Bukin was popular at the school, where he played for a football team and even won the tournament when he scored the famous hat-trick in the final. He still boasts of his main achievement to everyone who is ready to listen to him. Gena’s career even went uphill, because he was invited to Moscow to play for CSKA. There were bright prospects on the horizon, but fate intervened in the person of his wife Dasha, who broke his leg, dropping the car from the jack. I had to forget about football, and Gena Bukin stayed in his native Yekaterinburg forever. With the first beauty of the school Dasha, Genes had a stormy romance that ended in a wedding. When Bukin returned to his hometown, his wife was already expecting a child. And the typical gray everyday life began, which I had to get used to. Gene got a job selling shoes with a friend. He does not like women, especially those who come to his store. Returning home, he often talks about the fatties whom he has seen. Gene does not earn much, although this fact seems slightly ephemeral, because the Bukins live in a two-story apartment, and no one else in the family works.
Nuances in the description
Bukin regularly goes to striptease, which is probably a copy from the American counterpart. In the United States, this standard of living is considered average. Gene does what he wants, and often conflicts with government officials. The series often reveals information about the intimate lack of Genes - smelly socks, which Dasha stubbornly refuses to wash. Because of this, Gene tries not to take off her shoes even in a dream. He is unclean, rarely takes a shower and brushes his teeth. Gene pathologically does not like his native wife and Americans. Active women are on the list of his antipathies, and therefore he always wants to quarrel a neighbor with her husband. Previously, Gene was a jack of all trades and even began repairs himself, but could not finish it and left everything as it is. In the process, he even flooded the apartment of his neighbors, fell from the roof many times.
Love and Dasha
In “Happy Together,” Dasha seems to be a very controversial character, she is a housewife who does not do any house work and always finds fault with Gene. They rarely have sex, but no thoughts of betrayal arise. Once, Gena explained to the stewardess the reason for his loyalty. He said he had been married so long that cheating would be a wrong thing. Dasha is a splinter for him, but this is his splinter. Platonically, Gene often cheats on Dasha, looking at the woman’s chest and special magazines.
The real name of Dasha is Evdokia Evkakievna, in girlhood - Bannykh. Dasha is from the mythical village of Deryabino, where all her relatives live and where Bukin often travels to visit. True, Dasha loves these trips in splendid isolation, and her family only endures them. Dasha is lazy and careless, but very optimistic. The heroine's natural talents are limited by her influence on her husband and the desire to absorb chocolate. Dasha spends the day on the couch in front of the TV, and in the evening flips through magazines. Dasha used to be the first beauty and got stuck in that image. She loves revealing dresses, stilettos and leggings. The heroine also loves sex and always solicits her husband, but rarely gets what she wants.
Beauty of the Light
Sveta Bukina is very beautiful, but somewhat stupid. She often confuses words, quotes, and idioms. It happens that she shows glimpses of the mind.
The list of Happy Together series includes flashbacks. For example, in one of the series there is a reference to the stupidity of Sveta. There, the Bukins drive a car, and Dasha scolds her husband for not paying much attention to her daughter, which means that only men will be interested in her. At this moment, the six-year-old Sveta is reading a book on philosophy, and Gena is sharply slowed down, and her daughter hits her head. Since then, only the "stars" are concerned about the Light. Now she is interested in some guys and often changes them. Gena hates her daughter's friends and often pounds them. Sveta graduates from school, actively using an attractive appearance. After that, she takes acting lessons and tries herself as a model.
In “Happy Together,” Bukina is an unusually nonchalant family, and Sveta is her bright representative - she changes jobs and rushes between video clips and working on television. For a long time she works as a waitress, moonlighting in advertising sandwiches.
Modest loser
Roman Bukin is a rare bastard and a mischievous brother who often scoffs at a silly sister, ironic at his parents, but he studies well and goes to college after school. Roma temporarily lives in a hostel, but then returns to his parents. The guy has all the complexes and problems of a growing, closed young man. He is sexually preoccupied and even acquired a rubber beloved woman. Roma's love is rare, and most novels go to dust. The hero’s first love was unsuccessful - the chosen one stole his clothes on the river and hung out the guy’s underwear on the school board. Roma managed to lose his virginity with the bride of his second cousin. He also had a strong interest in university beauty Natasha Belonogova, who later admitted that she was a transsexual.
Among the passions of Roma are very original ladies: a niece of a neighbor, an English teacher, a nymphomaniac librarian and a classmate. The list of the series “Happy Together” also includes the one where Sveta changed Roma’s image, making it desirable for girls. But the sister caused the sad collapse of love in the life of Roma, when Victoria Daineko became interested in it and sent the guy a “Valentine” card.
Roma is a problem guy. He has no friends and no permanent job. He tried himself in the role of producer Sveta and engaged in rap. In the fourth season, information about Roma's health problems pops up: due to a toy stuck in his nose, he does not have a sense of smell, he also has scurvy and is very allergic to citruses.
Nicknamed Baron
In Happy Together, the best series are associated with a pet - a Bernese mountain dog of the breed named Baron. It is played by two dogs at once and voiced by two people. In the best traditions of the Bukin family, the Baron is stupid and sexually preoccupied, but he is smarter than Sveta and more successful in love than Roma. He knows the commands, but prefers not to follow them, as he is dismissive of people. The whole family loves Baron wholeheartedly, but tries not to pamper, so that he is not used to it. Gene will bring more medicine and food to the Baron than to his family. And Sveta was looking for Baron around the city during a hurricane. Only the Baron buy special food, but when the family has a holiday, the Baron eats the best from the table, and the family goes to his food.
Happy with neighbors
The list of Happy Together episodes will be incomplete without episodes with neighbors. They often visit Bukin, perceiving these visits as a heating routine. Lena Poleno is Dasha's best friend. She makes a career and earns a lot. Therefore, Gena hates her. Lena wants to become a bitch and promotes feminism. She and her husband have a lot of sex. They practice role-playing games and celebrate all family holidays. Lena’s second marriage begins with a re-party at the party, but unexpectedly turns out to be quite strong. Tolik Poleno devotes a lot of time to his appearance, attends a spa and positions himself as a real macho.
Actors and roles
So how many episodes are Happy Together? The number turns out to be iconic - 365. During this time, the actors related to their characters and imbued them. Victor Loginov after the series and the role of Genes really became famous, began to lead the show "Intuition" and many others, starred in four feature films, but still remained a hostage to the role of the original seller of shoes. Natalia Bochkareva in life does not at all resemble Dasha Bukin. She is more fragile, tiny and not so bright. The actress is engaged in theatrical filming and plays in the movie, and does not cause associations with the Bukin family. Daria Sagalova has long outgrown her Light, she was 30 years old. She has two daughters, a husband and regular shootings for movies and TV. Alexander Yakin also does not lag behind his serial family and is broadcasting a movie about the channel on the Carousel channel. Still busy on TV shows and sometimes appears on the set of humorous shows.