“Bukins” in and around the flu: Together we are happy, apart we die The first episode of “Bukins”, about the heroes “Happy Together”, will be broadcast on December 18, 12/17/2023, at 16:35.

“Bukins’ white line started ten years ago,” boasts aging shoe salesman Gena Bukin. (Victor Loginov), sprawled out on someone’s office couch in the opening scene of the TV series “Bukins” (dubious rhyme with opening scene) series “Daddy’s Daughters. New”, where Pale Philip’s hero Venik similarly addresses the audience directly). In general, ten years ago it looked like the Bukins were divorced, the last time we saw them arguing on a snowy roof on New Year’s Eve and nothing good was going to happen for them, so it’s not entirely clear what the white line is there. . But honestly, who is embarrassed by fundamental inconsistencies with reality these days?

Be that as it may, if this white streak occurred somewhere behind the scenes, it comes to naught in the first episode of “The Bukins”: the bank threatens to take it away from Gena and Dasha (Natalia Bochkareva) house, sons Rome (Iskender Yakin) loses his job and his daughter Sveta (Daria Sagalova) divorces her husband and is left penniless with her child in her arms. Thus, the family is gathered under one roof again.

I must say that the roof is new – the regions are catching up with the capital: Muscovites from the “Daddy’s Daughters” Vasnetsovs moved to the suburbs in 2012, now it is the turn of the Ekaterinburg Bukins. But the problems are old: just like in the previous house, unfinished repairs are frozen here forever, and the inhabitants of these walls do not exactly love each other – they just hate each other a little less than everyone else.

The static nature inherent in sitcoms as a genre (no matter what happens to the characters, but they do not change globally and must remain within the given framework) is superimposed on Russian reality in the example of “Happy Together” and “Bukins” so that the houses breathe natural chtonics through the unfinished cracks taking. The series about the Bukins once suffered the same fate as the series about the Vasnetsovs: it ran out of energy, everyone got tired of it, and it ended in mid-sentence (only two years after the monument to Gena Bukin was erected in Yekaterinburg). However, if “Daddy’s Daughters” absurdly disappeared from the air, then the last episode of “Happy Together” involuntarily turned into a kind of existential statement, they say, interdependence and human love were sewn into the subcortex of these people, they were chained with one chain, forever friends are doomed to stay together and hate each other until (perhaps it was worth inviting Ural samsara specialists to cooperate: writer Alexei Salnikov as a screenwriter and members of the Kurara group as composers).

“Bukins” generally follows the same logic. They have new neighbors (Maxim Lagashkin and Ekaterina Stulova)Loginov grew a beard and Yakin went bald, but essentially this is exactly the same series as ten years ago, with the same vile humor and flippant view of the world around him.

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A still from the TV series “Bukiny” (2023)

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For example, throughout the sixth episode, Loginov and Lagashkin’s characters (metaphorically) measure their penises, being mistaken for homosexuals several times in the process (presumably a cinematic quote from Wong Kar-wai’s “Happy Together” – Loginov did not do this. He just had a “sterile” do not promise that a “more subtle and voluminous” story will be shown for women in prostitution, corresponding to the “spirit of the times” and their wives” instead of “situation comedy”. In between, personal care is “somewhat European” and requires washing down with “borscht and vodka” (a They manage to joke that it should (an interesting approach for a series that started as a remake of an American sitcom). So who told them, who told them, who came up with the idea that this was good? The question is rhetorical.

Another thing is sadder. From a reboot perspective, since “Bukiny” was hugely successful (we repeat: this is the exact same series as a decade ago), it looks like they have a chance to touch some sort of public nerve. The case of “We Are Happy Together”: Having collected about a hundred thousand rubles from family members to pay off debts at the end of the first episode, Gena happily says “we will hold out for a month, then we will come.” there is something.” In this sense, nothing has changed in ten years. But this says more about us than the show. If happiness is like this, we’ve been happy together for a very long time.