Russian TV Shows

~ Clarissa

I need to stop watching these silly Russian dating shows but they are so hilarious that I need them to help me grade.

A 75-year-old man is looking “for a woman between the ages of 25 and 35 who is interested in having a lot of sex.”

“With whom?” I ask the second I hear this.

It turns out that the gentleman is looking for a rich 25-year-old because he has no money.

I will let you figure out why he came to this show on your own.

P.S. It took me a while to figure out how to understand these Russian shows until I realized that you need to add 15 years to everybody’s age to understand what the hell people are on about. So this rich gentleman is about 90 years old in terms of our North American vision of age. For instance, when you see a 25-year-old say, “I need to get married and start having children now because my time is running out” and everybody nods, just imagine that this person is 40 and things become at least somewhat more understandable.

P.P.S. There is a lot of grading that awaits me this semester, people, so prepare yourselves for many cross-cultural posts. I apologize in advance to everybody who hates such posts. My teaching duties are sacred.

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14 thoughts on “Russian TV Shows”

      1. Haha! That’s funny.

        Is it anything like American reality TV, where some people exaggerate (or even fake) their “quirks” just to get on television?

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        1. “Is it anything like American reality TV, where some people exaggerate (or even fake) their “quirks” just to get on television?”

          – This wasn’t the case 14 years ago when I emigrated, but today I’m seeing that people are falling into these behaviors suggested to them by the American television more and more often. This is especially evident among young people. I think it’s good, in a way, because it will allow the Russian people to release some of their humongous uptightness. Historically, the Russians just fume in silence until they blow up in a revolution or a civil war. (Unlike the Ukrainians who emote all over the place, all day and every day.)

          I’m still trying to convince N. that people on American reality TV shows are real people, not actors. He doesn’t believe people can emote so publicly and openly unless it’s their job to fake emotions. 🙂

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  2. May I ask the program’s name and its’ channel? I know of “Davai Pozenimsya” (“Let’s Get Married”) on ORT. Very patriarchial.

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    1. That is the program I’m talking about! Lovely stuff. I have now taken to walking around muttering to myself, “Thank God I left, thank God I left” for an hour after watching each show. 🙂 🙂

      After watching it, the American news from the War on Women battlefield seem a lot more tolerable.

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        1. I love her, she has gotten SO MUCH better as an actress after her failed performance in the “Bespridanniza.” But the things she shares about her marriage are scary. Last night I watched this show where she says that her husband tells her she is fat and her hair is ugly, yet she feels she needs to hold on to him because nobody else would want such an old woman (she is 50). I have to ask, even if it’s true, then who needs this kind of men around? She makes very good money, she is brilliant, talented and breathtakingly beautiful. Who the fuck needs to keep around a man telling you that you are fat and ugly?

          Sorry for the rant, N. was asleep when I watched this show and I really need to share my outrage. 🙂

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  5. im looking for anyone that could help me find my family in russia. I was adopted and lost contact with them. Their name is shvets nikolai zenya, tanya, vova and natasha. I had tried everything and nothing. Please if anyone out there knows anything or could help me. Anastasia shvets

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