The series "Olga" - audience reviews, cast and plot

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The series "Olga", reviews of which you will find in this article, has been airing on TNT since 2016. During this time, 60 episodes were released on the screens, which were divided into two seasons.

Main idea

Reviews about 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 work in Russian art-house dramas. Critics in 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 problematic relatives. Many even call him the female version of the Fizruk series.

Series plot

The main character's name is Olga. She is divorced, has a daughter and a son, born of different fathers. In addition, she constantly has to solve the problems of her alcoholic father and sister, who is preoccupied with finding a husband.

Olga herself is about 40 years old, she works in a small beauty salonmanicurist, while managing to do household chores and trying to somehow arrange his personal life.

16-year-old daughter Olga is studying in college, according to the heroine herself, she is going to break her mother's record and give birth before 17. The son, whose father left for another family in Azerbaijan, is trying to defend his right to national self-identification. The sister, who is 30 years old, is dating married men and wants to enlarge her breasts. And her father, a former football player, now works as a coach, constantly going into hard drinking.

This is the harsh reality she has to live with. But she does not lose heart, finding a well-aimed expression for everyone. Something bright in her life appears when Olga meets a modest driver from a funeral services company named Grisha. This provincial guy sincerely falls in love with Olga, although much younger than her and seems too naive. But he strives to do everything possible to make the life of his beloved better.

Yana Troyanova

In the audience reviews of the series "Olga", almost everyone notes that this sitcom is a benefit performance of the popular actress Yana Troyanova.

Before that, she was known primarily as the muse and wife of director Vasily Sigarev. It was the roles in his films that brought her fame - the drama "Top" about a woman who seeks to arrange her personal life and at the same time cannot get rid of her daughter, who cannot imagine life without her, the drama "To Live" about people losing their loved ones, a phantasmagoric comedy "Land of Oz" about New Year's adventures of LenkaShabadinova, who is trying to arrange her life in a big city.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time Troyanova plays ordinary Russian women. In her performance, they turn out to be whole, with masculine habits, but at the same time cheerful and freedom-loving. This is exactly the main character of the series "Olga" on TNT. In the reviews, viewers admire the work of the actress.

It is noteworthy that for Troyanova this is the first experience of participating in the series. About her heroine, she says that she is often wrong, but at the same time, more than anything else, she loves her family. Even when he swears at the household. And she swears most often because she worries and cares about loved ones. At the same time, she manages to be a humorous woman with a serious face, Troyanova notes.

Vasily Kortukov

In reviews of the film (TV 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, Olga's father Yuri Gennadyevich Terentyev, a former athlete who is increasingly abusing alcohol. Because of this pernicious passion, he loses his job as a coach at a sports school and becomes another burden for the main character.

Kortukov made his debut in big cinemain 1985, he played the role of the royal jester in the Soviet fairy tale "After the rain on Thursday." Many may remember him from the Polish-Soviet comedy "Deja Vu" by Juliusz Machulsky, in which he played a jazz clarinetist.

In the 90s, he practically did not act in film, returning to the set only in the early 2000s. Mostly in domestic series. He was involved in the films "Streets of Broken Lights", "Secrets of the Investigation", "Hounds", "Foundry", "Cop in Law", "Sea Devils", "Once Upon a Time in the Police", "Moscow. Three Stations". From full-length films, one can recall his work in Yegor Abrosimov's drama "My Dear Man", Zhora Kryzhovnikov's comedy "Bitter!".

Alina Alekseeva

Even in the 1st season of the TV series "Olga", Alina Alekseeva, who played the sister of the main character named Elena, deserved positive reviews.

For the actress, this was the first notable role in her career. Prior to that, she played in only a few films, and in minor roles. She starred in the series "Friendship of Peoples" and "Kitchen". Fame came to her when she began to engage in model fetish shooting. She designed costumes for photo shoots herself, 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 a managercar dealership in Sergei Groznov's crime comedy "Money". In 2015, she was noted for her roles in Anna Melikyan's comedy melodrama "About Love" and the New Year's comedy "Wonderland" by Dmitry Dyachenko, Maxim Sveshnikov and Alexei Kazakov.

Ksenia Surkova

The role of Olga's daughter Ani went to actress Ksenia Surkova. She is 28 years old, she is a member of the children's musical theater "DoMiSolka", a graduate of VGIK, studied in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of Russia Igor Yasulovich.

Her debut film role 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, members of the film crew had to splash water in her face. The next time she appeared on the screen in the role of Vasilisa in the fantastic comedy "To Far Away".

Participation in the first year of VGIK, auditioned for participation in the drama of Valeria Gai Germanika "Everyone will die, but I will stay", but she never starred in the film. The actress herself admits that she does not like to act in TV shows, so she rarely agrees to such proposals. She is more attracted to deep art-house tapes. For example, in 2009 she starred in Vera Glagoleva's drama One War. This is a film about five Russian girls who gave birth to the German invaders, about how difficult their fate was. For her role in this film, Surkova received a prize for best actress at the Amur Spring festival, and her work was also recognizedthe best debut at the Constellation forum. To match the image of her character, she had to cut her hair, and on the set of one of the episodes she got frostbite on her hands.

One of her latest works is the melodrama "Family Album" and the youth comedy "Tender Age Crisis", in which she played the main role.

Maxim Kostromykin

Olga's boyfriend, the driver of Gennady's ritual agency, is played by Maxim Kostromykin. He was born in Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk. He played in the Stanislavsky Theater, performed several dozen roles in films.

He made his debut on the screen in 2003 in the series "My Relatives". Viewers may remember his work in "Balzac's age, or All men are theirs…", where he played computer scientist Anton.

In 2016, he took part in the series "Practice" on Channel One, which told about the life and work of provincial doctors. The role of Grisha in the sitcom "Olga", as the actor himself admits, he liked. The life and problems of the heroes were well known to him from childhood, but he had no one to "write off" his character.

Mohammed Abu Rizik

In the series "Olga", reviews of which you will find in this article, the son of the main character Timofey is played by a young actor Mohammed Abu-Rizik.

He is only 13 years old. Work in this sitcom was his film 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's a good student at school,tries himself as not only a film actor, but also a model, participates in fashion shows, starred in commercials. It can be seen on various calendars and catalogs.

Voices of viewers

Reviews about the series "Olga", the 2nd season of which has been released since September 2017, are mostly positive. The audience notes that they were not disappointed in the writers 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) there are also his opponents. The sitcom is often criticized for having a lot of below the belt jokes.