Creators of the reality show Russian Dolls (' Matryoshka ' or ' Russian dolls '), a Russian transiently agitated New York, perhaps, comforting theory that bad publicity is no. Or not, because while their child is honored with a rather mocking reviews in the American press.
Typical first sentence of the review of Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times. ... If his wife set out to scare their itinerant husbands and force them to button up his fly, then they would show them ' dolls '.
Starting zaupokoy, the author does not continue for the health. ' There are some husbands and boyfriends - writes Stanley - but most of the production is dedicated to women, including housewives, middle-aged power and their mothers. Thanks to collagen and Restylane are living dolls: one doll, open, and inside will be as unnatural smaller doll '.
According to the author, the candidate for this role, ' obviously, there was no shortage, producers can easily scored a clutch of ambitious, vulgar tranzhirok ready to sizzle on command, smarten up and cry in front of camera. For some reason, citing Pushkin violinists and math geeks from Brighton Beach they are not liked '.
' Some Americans of Russian descent, likely to be offended ' dolls ' and join the ranks of Americans of Italian origin, which still derives from a ' Jersey Shore ' or African- Americans who resent the ' Real Housewives of Atlanta ' - writes . - But how can a hydrogen bomb does not happen without the fusion reaction, because reality shows do not happen without the stereotypes '.
Even last year when there were rumors of preparations for the shooting of ' dolls ', who were called ' Brighton Beach ', a project has a reputation epigone ' Jersey Shores '. But now the liberal New York Daily News notes that the ' Russian' Jersey Shore ' failed miserably '.
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' Matryoshka ' far from ' Jersey Shores ' - concludes the paper reviewer Richard Huff. - He takes the audience of his stupidity. ' Nesting Dolls ' just disgusting '.
Huff mentions a scene in which one of the main nesting dolls - 34 -year-old Marina Levitis, whose family owns a Russian restaurant ' Rasputin ', resents protracted exile competition ' Come on grandma ', taking place in the competitive restaurant ' National '.
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' It was a feeling is emerging from the' dolls ' - ironically Huff. - The show - pure torture. Characters vulgar, tasteless and very unsympathetic. What could be a big minus for TV, unless it is ' most wanted in America '.
According to the reviewer's Daily News, all reality shows are made for one prescription. ' Take a group of ordinary townsfolk, who are willing to do anything if only they showed on TV - he writes. - Get them to talk to the camera and reveal their innermost feelings or what they take for this feeling. Add to that food, booze, bikinis, a hint of sex - and now you have a reality show! '.
Like several other critics, some of the maxims quoted Huff, carried on television. ... - ' Sometimes they just want to go to a restaurant for free ' - echoes the second character named Albert. - ...
The reviewer concludes on the following note: ...
A critic of the conservative New York Post Linda Stacey finds ' Matryoshka ' a flaw: in her words, ' most of the characters - not from Russia and from Ukraine! ...
' But - 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 from Brighton Beach, which is not praise America and not their Judaism, and the ability to manifest a Russian stereotypes '.
By Allison Hoffman, log notes, for example, that the comely heroine named Diane CBS (' Why not Kosovo - asks a reader. - Is it a man? . ') Is a hefty star of David,' which hangs on her breast protruding dramatically '.
Along the way, Hoffman notes that in the first series of ' dolls ' blond Diana, which some critics call ' chemical blonde ' tears relationship with boyfriend named Paul, because she needed a Russian, and he - ' Spanish ' (that is, obviously, .
' Matryoshka ' confirm the observation - the author concludes - that 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Jewish exiles in America have found a place where they are finally free to be a Russian '.
Nesting Dolls.