The series "Olga", reviews of which you will find in this article, has been broadcast on TNT since 2016. During this time, 60 episodes were released, which were divided into two seasons.
main idea
Reviews for the series "Olga" are mostly positive. This is a comedy series dedicated to the life of a simple Russian woman. The main character lives in a residential area of ​​Moscow - in Chertanovo.
By the way, she is played by the famous domestic actress Yana Troyanova, who was previously known primarily for her works in Russian art house dramas. Critics in the reviews of the series "Olga" note that this is a lively sitcom dedicated to the difficult life of a single mother, who has a lot of problems and a lot of problem relatives. Many even call it the female version of the series "Fizruk."
The plot of the series
The main character is called Olga. She is divorced, raising a daughter and son born of different fathers. In addition, she constantly has to solve the problems of her alcoholic father and sister, who is concerned about the search for her husband.
Olga herself is about 40 years old, she works as a manicurist in a small beauty salon, while managing to do household chores and trying to somehow arrange her personal life.
Olga’s 16-year-old daughter is going to college, according to the heroine herself, is going to break her mother’s record and give birth before 17. The son, whose father went to another family in Azerbaijan, is trying to defend his right to national self-identification. A 30-year-old sister is dating married men and wants to enlarge her breasts. And her father, a former football player, now works as a coach, constantly leaving for binges.
This is a cruel reality in which she has to live. But she does not lose heart, finding a well-aimed expression for everyone. Something bright in her life appears when Olga meets a humble driver from a funeral service company named Grisha. This provincial guy sincerely falls in love with Olga, even though she is much younger than her and seems too naive. But he seeks to do everything possible to make his beloved life better.
Yana Troyanova
In the audience’s reviews of the TV series Olga, almost everyone notes that this sitcom is a benefit of the popular actress Yana Troyanova.
Prior to that, she was known primarily as the muse and wife of director Vasily Sigarev. The fame brought her just the role in his films - the drama "The Top" about a woman who seeks to arrange her personal life and at the same time can not get rid of her daughter, an unimaginable life without her, the drama "Live" about people losing their closest, phantasmagoric comedy "Country OZ" about the New Year adventures of Lenka Shabadinova, who is trying to arrange her life in a big city.
Also, Troyanova’s audience love was brought by the tragicomedy Avdotya Smirnova “Kokoko” about two different women who accidentally end up in the same apartment, the ethnical tale of Aleksey Fedorchenko “Heavenly wives of meadow mari”.
It is worth noting that Troyanova is not the first time playing ordinary Russian women. In her performance, they turn out whole, with male habits, but at the same time cheerful and freedom-loving. This is exactly the main character of the series "Olga" on TNT. In reviews, viewers admire the work of the actress.
It is noteworthy that for Troyanova this is the first experience of participating in the series. She says about her heroine that she is often wrong, but at the same time she loves her family more than anything else. Even when he swears at the household. And she often swears because she worries and cares about loved ones. At the same time, she manages to be a funny woman with a serious face, Troyanova observes.
Vasily Kortukov
In the reviews of the film (series) "Olga", most viewers notice the work of Vasily Kortukov. This is a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, who lives and works mainly in St. Petersburg. In the series, he plays Jurgen, the father of Olga Yuri Gennadievich Terentyev, a former athlete who is increasingly abusing alcohol. Because of this destructive passion, he loses his job as a coach in a sports school and becomes another burden for the main character.
In a big movie, Kortukov made his debut in 1985, played the role of the royal jester in the Soviet fairy tale "After the Rain on Thursday." Many can remember him from the Polish-Soviet comedy by Juliusz Makhulsky “Deja Vu”, in which he played the jazzman-clarinetist.
In the 90s, he almost did not act, returning to the set only in the early 2000s. Mostly in domestic TV shows. He was involved in the films "Streets of Broken Lights", "Secrets of the Investigation", "Hounds", "Foundry", "Ment in Law", "Sea Devils", "Once Upon a Time in Police", "Moscow. Three Railway Stations". Of the full-length paintings, one can recall his work in the drama of Yegor Abrosimov "My Dear Man", the comedy of Zhora Kryzhovnikov "Bitter!".
Alina Alekseeva
Alina Alekseeva, who played the sister of the main character named Elena, also received positive reviews in the 1st season of the series “Olga”.
For the actress, this was the first prominent role in her career. Prior to that, she played in only a few films, and on secondary roles. She starred in the series "Friendship of Peoples" and "Kitchen". Fame came to her when she began to engage in model fetish shootings. She herself developed costumes for photo shoots, began to appear on the pages of popular magazines.
Alekseeva took part in the filming of the film "Dau", dedicated to the life of the famous physicist Lev Landau, but the project was never completed. In 2014, she played the manager of a car dealership in the crime comedy Sergey Groznov "Money." In 2015, she was marked by roles in the comedy melodrama of Anna Melikyan "About Love" and the New Year comedy by Dmitry Dyachenko, Maxim Sveshnikov and Alexei Kazakov "Wonderland".
Ksenia Surkova
The role of Olga Ani's daughter went to actress Ksenia Surkova. She is 28 years old, she is a participant in the children's musical theater "DoMiSolka", a graduate of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, studied in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of Russia Igor Yasulovich.
Her debut role in the movie was a short film called "Friend". The first role was not easy for her, as Surkova recalled, she could not cry for a long time in the frame, the crew had to splash water on her face. The next time she appeared on the screen in the role of Vasilisa in the science fiction comedy "For Distant Lands."
Participation in the first year of VGIK, there were tests for participation in the drama by Valeria Gai Germanika “Everyone will die, but I will stay”, but she never appeared in the film. The actress herself admits that she does not like to appear in TV shows, so she rarely agrees to such offers. She is more attracted to deep art house tapes. For example, in 2009, she starred in Vera Glagoleva’s drama "One War". This film is about five Russian girls who gave birth to German occupiers, about how difficult their fate was. For her role in this picture, Surkova received a prize for best actress at the Amur Spring festival, and her work was recognized as the best debut at the Constellation forum. To match the image of her heroine, she had to cut her hair, and on the set of one of the episodes, she froze her hands.
One of her latest works is the melodrama Family Album and the youth comedy Crisis of a Tender Age, in which she played a major role.
Maxim Kostromykin
The boyfriend Olga, the driver of the ritual agency Gennady, is played by Maxim Kostromykin. He was born in Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk. He played in the Stanislavsky Theater, performed several dozen roles in the cinema.
On screen debuted in 2003 in the series "My Relatives". Viewers can recall his work in "Balzac Age, or All Men Are His ...", where he played the computer scientist Anton.
In 2016, he took part in the series on the First Channel "Practice", which talked about the life and work of provincial doctors. The role of Grisha in the sitcom "Olga", as the actor himself admits, pleased him. Everyday life and problems of the heroes were familiar to him from childhood, only he had no one to write off his character from.
Muhammad Abu Rizik
In the series "Olga", the reviews of which you will find in this article, the son of the main character Timofey is played by the young actor Mohammed Abu-Rizik.
He is only 13 years old. Work in this sitcom was his movie debut. He was born and raised in Moscow. A big role in his life is played by his mother, who develops the boy creatively. He studies well at school, tries himself as not only a film actor, but also a model, participates in fashion shows, and starred in commercials. It can be seen on various calendars and catalogs.
Viewers Opinions
Reviews about the series "Olga", the 2nd season of which has been released since September 2017, are mostly positive. Spectators note that they were not disappointed in the scriptwriters and actors. They note that this is a film about real life with its problems, difficulties and joys.
But in the reviews of the series "Olga" (2016) are his opponents. Sitcom is often criticized for a large number of jokes below the belt.