# Servant of the People (2015)

> A schoolteacher whose viral rant against corruption makes him a national hero finds himself elected president, and refuses to give up his simple life.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/57051

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 51
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Network: 1+1
- Cast: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Stanislav Boklan, Yevhen Koshovyi, Nataliia Sumska, Viktor Saraikin, Olena Kravets, Yurii Krapov, Olexander Pikalov
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6235122/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: witty, sardonic, irreverent, hopeful, brisk

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the series positively, praising its sharp political satire and the lead's everyman charm.

## Synopsis

Servant of the People (2015-2019) is a Ukrainian political satire comedy created by Volodymyr Zelenskyy for 1+1. Its everyman protagonist is Vasyl Petrovych Holoborod'ko, a schoolteacher played by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose furious online rant about government corruption goes viral and turns him into a countrywide hero. Stanislav Boklan plays Yuriy Ivanovich Chuyko, a figure who sits close to the protagonist's circle, while Yevhen Koshovyi and Nataliia Sumska round out the principal cast. The engine of the show is the gap between an honest man's ideals and the machinery of the state he suddenly inherits: he is elected president, yet refuses the privileges of office and insists on living a simple life, so every episode turns on the friction between his stubborn decency and the cynical advisers, officials and staff who surround him. The series runs across three seasons and roughly fifty episodes of about forty-five minutes each, built as a sitcom-style workplace comedy with recurring characters rather than a single continuing crisis. It is set in contemporary Ukraine, in the corridors of power and the everyday life of a modern post-soviet nation. The tone is brisk, witty and sardonic, with a warm, hopeful core that mocks institutional rot without losing affection for its characters. Fans of Veep, The Thick of It and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington will find resonance in its satire of politics seen through an outsider's eyes.

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