Halves who stayed with whom. The heroes of the project "PoLOVEinky" are filming joint videos and preparing for the wedding
(22 years old) - Aries (Rat)
Sofia(22 years old) - Sagittarius (Rat)
If you think that the year of birth according to the Chinese horoscope is determined incorrectly, read. (January, February - concerns you)
You have good astrological compatibility. This type is favorable for creative creation and is considered very compatible.
Fire Yang Man
Fire Yang Woman
Union of equals. They will never cease to surprise each other with novelty and activity, which means that the relationship will be childishly cocky, but not boring. These partners can jointly create many projects, the only pity is that they will be short-lived - after all, working hard on something once created will be boring for both of them.
Birth number 9 for a man This is an intellectual, romantic, very erudite man. He is sociable, frank, lives with an open heart. Intellectual and spiritual communication becomes the main thing in relationships with him. He strives for people who have decided, who have found their self-expression. Strictly adheres to his beliefs; ideological differences can become an insurmountable obstacle in relationships. Love is something that happens more in his head than in his heart. He tries to control his own and his partner’s feelings with his mind. Makes high demands on his chosen one. She carefully plans meetings, thinking through all the details, and tries to use seduction methods that were used back in the 18th century. Values respect and honesty with each other. Usually confident in his correctness and the high quality of his knowledge. His main problem is separation from reality and lack of restraint. He tends to avoid real intimacy in intimate relationships. It is important for him to maintain his freedom and the feeling that he belongs only to himself. Believes that sex is a physical continuation of intellectual communication between the sexes. Love is most often found while traveling. He is very sensitive, and can sacrifice his own needs for the sake of his partner. A relationship with him can turn into a delightful romance, but he needs to learn to see a real person in his woman.
Sofia
Birth number 6 for a woman Outwardly she seems calm, cold and even aloof, but underneath this lies sensuality and sexuality. In her youth she is often naive, sentimental and shy. As an adult, she becomes reasonable. She is dreamy, has a rich imagination and high intuition. Can be soft, timid, modest or seductive, flirtatious, playful. Her unpredictability gives her a special appeal. Prone to romantic relationships. Cherishes every moment of love. He gives himself over to his feelings with all his heart and soul. She needs a sensitive and responsive partner; only such a person will make her happy. She does not tolerate half-heartedness in relationships: all or nothing. Wants to love and be loved, and to the end. Can be quick-tempered and touchy. She wants security, understanding and care. Although she herself is able to withstand any storms in life. When parting with a partner, he tries to maintain friendly relations. Marriage and children are top priorities. She chooses a husband of equal social status and with similar interests. Relationships with relatives are of paramount importance to her, and she devotes a lot of time and effort to them.
A wonderful union of idealists. The “Six”, like air, needs the love of a partner and manifestations of feelings, and for the “Nine”, in general, the whole meaning of life is in love. “Nine” will compose poems and songs, and if you have an ear for music and a voice, then you will sing a serenade. And that’s all the “six” needs - isn’t this proof of love? It will be much more difficult to find convincing evidence of love for the “nine”, but, fortunately, she is inclined to idealize love.
In such a union, true spiritual intimacy most often arises.
The Destiny Number and the Soul Number of a person are called the “basic numbers of the name.”
Ivan(compatibility/destiny number - 2 2 )
Sofia(compatibility/fate number 1 , number of emotionality/soul - 5 )
Forecast in the field of personal relationships:
1 and 2 - If the pressure of 1 is not too strong, a harmonious, complementary union is possible.
Forecast in the emotional sphere:
2 and 5 - Good relationships are possible, but doubtful. Most likely, such a union will be emotionally unstable.
* Important: Relationships are a very complex and multifaceted topic, so the proposed calculation is not simple. Consider and take into account all the results obtained. Potential is present in every type of relationship, and there are also exceptions to the rules (in particular, it is better to draw up a personal compatibility horoscope). Corresponds to the potential of an individual to independently decide his own destiny. We always have freedom of choice, and this can help us overcome the difficulties that astrology warns about.
We are not used to talking about our problems “in public.” We do not bare our souls to everyone, since the world around us is often unkind to the weak. This is a component of our mentality. What then can we say about people who have lived for years with a source of pain inside, mental and physical? Laura Maltseva, head of the “Halves” project, which premiered on the “New Channel” on September 22, 2015, says that all the heroes of this program went through “spiritual nudity.” We talked with Laura about what its creators wanted to say with this project, about breaking stereotypes, the participants and the team, and also about how many couples formed in the end. In the interview, as in the program, there are many touching moments, so we ask you to remove people with callous souls from the monitors.
Project information: The authors of the new romantic project “Halves” promise to help heroes who do not fit into the generally accepted norms of modern society find love. Every week, an experienced and all-seeing expert presenter will invite three participants to join her. And after meeting, he will try to find a couple for the heroes and arrange the first meeting. The authors of the show “Halves” will do everything possible to ensure that young people get the most vivid impressions together by going on a dream date, which can develop into love.
Original name:"Halves"
A country: Ukraine
Year: 2015
Genre: dating show
Number of episodes: 12
Channel:"New channel"
Project Manager: Laura Maltseva
Chief editor: Marina Gostra
Creative Producer: Maria Bila
How did it happen that you took on this project?
I came to the New Channel for this project. Initially, it is based on the British format “The Undateables” - “undateable” (not to be confused with the American comedy television series of the same name “The Undateables” - note by Mediasat) . This format prompted the channel’s management to make a project about such people. I joined the project at the filmed “pilot” stage.
The Undateables is a British documentary reality show. The participants in the show are people with physical or mental disabilities who in ordinary life cannot build relationships, but really want to love and be loved. The show premiered on April 3, 2012 on the British public television channel Channel 4. This year, viewers saw the fourth season of the project, which started on January 5, 2015. The first, second and third seasons had four episodes each, the fourth - five. The third season of Undateables became the broadcaster's second highest-rated program at the end of 2014. Raising the controversial topic of building relationships between people with disabilities, the show caused a storm of emotions on social networks: up to 38 thousand (!) tweets during one episode. British newspapers wrote that, despite the signs of banal matchmaking, the courage, humor and touching nature of his “stars” makes him “untouchable” and liked by the viewer. However, within one episode, people changed their opinion from “this is indecent and offensive” to “this is the best show that you can’t help but admire.”
When I came to talk about this project and my work on the channel, I saw some kind of faith in goodness in the eyes of people. I can honestly say that it is very rare for television people to talk not about the commercial side of the issue, but about people. I didn’t believe it at first, but I sat down comfortably in a chair and began to listen. And it was amazing what they told me. I stayed, and we ended up with a bright, but completely different project, not the same as in the UK.
As far as I know, the British at first did not react very well, to put it mildly, to the very name of the project – “Undateable”. You probably took this into account when calling our product softer – “Halves”.
We struggled with the name for a very long time. The format is British, which means the audience has a different mentality, a different economic situation, a different presentation, a different style. We will not have a project called “Undateable”, “Not suitable for dating”. We needed something warm, close to everyone, and “Halves” somehow immediately caught on. Every time people talk about a love that has taken place, we say that such people are truly halves.
To what extent were the formats otherwise strictly adhered to, or did you deviate significantly from the given maternal standard?
Our project is so different that listing the differences, talking about timing, or things like mixing and splitting stories within the same episode is simply ridiculous. I will repeat that this project is unique, there is probably nothing like it anywhere in the world, at least I have not heard about it.
First of all, we have other participants. If in England we were not talking about people like everyone else, and these were people who were exclusively sick, even if they were not in a wheelchair from birth, then our participants are different in spirit, they do not give up, they live a full life. They don’t consider themselves sick, you know? Even those who were born with cerebral palsy or without arms. For example, one of our participating girls with cerebral palsy is a multiple swimming champion. A hearing-impaired girl is a cross-country skiing champion. If the participants do not have sports regalia, then they are still unique: someone without fingers knows how to knit, embroider, hammer nails...
Never in your life will you see a person with cerebral palsy doing banjo jumping in another project. You will never see a girl who is hard of hearing water skiing a jock bodybuilder. Or a girl who was brought up in a boarding school, who has the peculiarity of one leg being shorter than the other and no fingers on her hands, has become a mega-sexual model. And there was such a photo shoot with her that many models who have five fingers on their hands never dreamed of this. There is so much sensuality, emotionality and some kind of deep, deep beauty in her.
And we see them like this: bright, interesting. When you talk about people who are not like everyone else, you really want there to be no such veil of heaviness that usually surrounds them and weighs them down, which comes with specialized festivals and stories. As a rule, a social project is a holy, good, but, unfortunately, sad thing.
Did you manage to make the project different, not sad?
The project is, first of all, about love, and the program turned out to be bright and even cheerful. There is a feeling that “Halves” is like a sip of pure water. They also make those who touch it cleaner, be it those who work in its production, be it spectators or participants.
Regarding the name of the British "mother" format - The Undateables - a storm also erupted on Twitter. Moreover, even before viewers saw the first episode of the program, the British Daily Mail wrote about it. Viewers were outraged that the creators of the project classified people with disabilities as “unsuitable for dating,” which is quite humiliating. To which representatives of the TV channel stated that the name simply reflects the attitude of society towards such people and it is deliberately provocative and aimed at challenging stereotypes and stimulating debate.
How many people are working on the project, and how difficult was it to form a team?
The project team today numbers about 120 people. They approached gradually, people crawled from everywhere, moved in, some dropped out. But now I’m ready to subscribe to every word of this sentence: there are no random people here.
Who dropped out?
Those who were uncomfortable, uncomfortable. Who doesn't live by this project? There were those who could not sleep, not eat, not drink, who lived by filming and for whom this was a normal regime. It was very difficult to find people, really. And not by skill level or track record. I understood with whom and under what conditions editors and directors would have to work and compared them with what I saw in the candidates who came. There are very few people on the market who are still able to believe in goodness, who love people. It’s not customary to talk about this, we don’t discuss “how we love people!” But it either exists or it doesn’t. When one of the candidates for director of this project told me: “Well, now I understand, what do we do next with these disabled people?”, I thought and told her: “Goodbye!”
The day we started this project, our team had no idea what we were up against. We were in such high spirits: “Eh, guys, let’s help them!” But to whom - to them? There are such people... what to call them? Not like everyone else? Yes, perhaps not like everyone else. This rather common definition has stuck most of all, because “people with special needs” somehow doesn’t sound very good. To be honest: in our country this definition has a special stamp, a special connotation, which is truly unpleasant.
Why did they decide that there would be no traditional presenters, only expert psychologists?
There is no place for traditional presenters in this project. What to say? What to present if we decided to help people in this project? Here, in fact, every minute there is help on camera and behind the scenes. It’s not only the expert who sets the guy up for a date (although he holds his hand all the time and calms him down), but also the guys from the set - cameramen, directors - also advise him on something. For example, they shaved one before a date. It's impossible to film everything! And when one guy says to another: “No, dude, this is a mess, I’ll comb your hair now!”, and combs your hair, although in fact he is an assistant or cameraman and is not obliged to do this, he is simply worried about the participant in the program as a human being, this is worth a lot.
How did you look for “not like everyone else”? This is a difficult question, because such people on television, and even in a program about love... not everyone will decide.
I can’t even count how many paths were taken to find our heroes, because they were looking for the whole world. When we entered the project, the casting department, which is on the New Channel, rushed to help us. They are very smart people and put all their efforts into helping us. They searched through social networks, published a profile on the website and gradually, little by little, found people. And then they searched the entire TV channel and found them in McDonald's, on the street, at bus stops, in the neighbors.
What were the criteria?
Very blurry. If you are not like everyone else, and because of this it is difficult for you, because of this you are alone - come here to us! This is the most important criterion. And we realized that we are not like everyone else here - on every corner. So ask yourself: are you like everyone else? Aren't you a black sheep? Maybe you are hiding it carefully?
Many of the people who become our members have physical disabilities, but this is not a requirement. They are not like others, it is more difficult for them to find love, they are not always understood and accepted, but they have not given up and are amazing by the very fact of their existence, by the way they live. The richness of life. Now, if they haven’t folded their arms and are really ready to fight, we take them.
In parallel with such people, we have others. One episode of “Halves” is 90 minutes, which is quite a lot of time for a television project. There are two stories in the episode. And next to those who have physical characteristics, in the same program there are people with psychological characteristics.
For example?
For example, you can see in the project one line about a man who was born without two legs and without arms. Nearby is about a guy who is 23 years old and has never been kissed. Special. Or someone who really wants to be noticed. And the best thing I came up with was to take pictures of my butt and post it on social networks. It is not customary to talk about this, but it happens in society. These are our people.
Your colleagues said that more than 3,000 people took part in the castings.
Casting is a separate epic. Our participants are great smart people because they come and they are ready to talk. I am grateful to everyone who became a participant, and to those who came but did not. It’s a big, big step to talk openly about your problem, not wanting, in general, publicity and stardom, and despite the fact that this project exposes everything. Moreover, we have “nudity” both in the literal and figurative sense. Everyone bares their soul; it is impossible to remain “dressed” in this project. They strip naked and go deeper. But opening up to our people is very difficult.
Did psychologists help with this?
Yes, psychologists worked on the project. They really pitched in and helped. But I take my hat off to our editors. The editors of “Halves” are the people who interviewed the casting participants and then guided them all the way to the set.
The castings were emotionally difficult. Periodically, the cameras were turned off and the casting was stopped, because the editor got up from his seat, came close to the person, knelt down and explained - I am also alive and feel the same as you, I want to hear you, I will not hurt you. And during the filming of the project, at first the cameras were turned off quite often because people were uncomfortable. One teaspoon at a time, the editors taught our participants that they need to open up and boldly face the situation, even if there are some shortcomings. This must be done so that the dream becomes a reality, so as not to be a loner anymore.
Probably, this is also a difference, because Western people are more liberated.
Certainly. In the West, the mentality is different, for example, in our country we have only heard about ramps. And you walk around New York - people with hearing aids and in wheelchairs share the road with ordinary passers-by. And these people in wheelchairs can fully move around the city themselves. They do shopping, sports, there are a lot of them on the streets, but here we don’t. And not because there are fewer such people in our country, but because there are no conditions for them, and they sit at home.
At the same time, look how beautiful they are, both physically and spiritually. They just don’t have living conditions. Here's a simple example: a guy, inviting a girl to a restaurant, stays downstairs because there is no ramp, and he can't climb the steps in a wheelchair.
How were the dates organized? Were the wishes of the project heroes taken into account?
They took into account all of them, even the most impossible ones too. We generally understood here that the impossible does not exist. A huge staff of people - I'm talking about the creative team, and administrators, location managers, operators, sound engineers, technical support - people all over the world fulfilled the wishes of crazy lovers. You can’t even imagine how these people know how to love! Their imagination knows no bounds. But what it cost us to realize their dreams of an ideal date is known only to the people who made these desires come true. There were underground dates where, under the threat of life and the integrity of the equipment, with a huge amount of lighting equipment, wet cables, cameras in the rain, film crews barely squeezed between the pipes so that the boy could have the digger date of his dreams. Dates on airplanes, under airplanes, with parachutes, at night... There was almost everything you can think of.
There was a date where, for the sake of love, a man with prosthetics instead of legs climbed the bell tower of the St. Sophia Cathedral. This is a holy place, an observation deck, from where only physically trained photographers take pictures of Kyiv. When you look at this, you want to do the impossible. In this project, everyone did the impossible. The word “no” did not exist. We have a project about love, which cannot be approached formally - we do this, but we don’t do this. It's not just butterflies and rainbows, although they were also present in abundance, both rainbows and butterflies.
What impressed you most?
Much. But, probably, what was important was the feeling that it was as if we were being helped from there, from above. For example, there was a story about a guy who remained a virgin well into his thirties. This is an absolute problem; he needed to change something in himself. At the moment when his possible soul mate spoke about this problem for the first time, it was raining like a wall. As soon as they started talking and got out of the car, there was a rainbow in half the sky. How can this be?
How did you find the “halves” for the main characters?
We posted participant profiles on the website and people who would like to try to build relationships with them came to us, called us, and so on. Somehow we got in touch. We even talked to people from other CIS countries. But at the same time, we understood that we have enough of our own potential heroes, this is the first thing, and secondly, due to the situation that has developed in the country, it is physically difficult for people from other countries to come to us for filming. But we still filmed our own, no matter what - the Crimeans, and the guy from the Donetsk region. How much effort did their arrival cost? How much nerves, effort, and time was spent by the project team? This is a different story.
The results of attempts to make a pair were sometimes very unexpected. For example, a girl who had a problem with her face participated in the program. One part is normal, beautiful, and the other... the other, as if two different people. This topic is incredibly painful for a girl who is truly beautiful, who plows over her body, who is focused on success, who is pulled down into the abyss by this part of her face and does not allow her to be happy.
This girl spoke completely sincerely about her problem and her loneliness. When she was offered to build a relationship with a completely sweet guy, who, in fact, was in the last place interested in her external features, the couple did not work out - they did not get along in character. It's not about the physical moments, but what happens in our heads.
There were a lot of couples that worked out, can you brag?
But very little time has passed since we met?
Yes, a little time passed. The guys essentially had two big dates, but each one was like a small life. Such a meeting could last a day and turn into night. After the dates, where they were guided by experts, after communicating with the group, people with or without a couple came out of the project different. Even their manner of speaking, gait, and posture changed. It was no coincidence that I cited this girl as an example. A stroller or a prosthesis is something superficial. What makes people lonely is the cockroaches in their heads. Therefore, this project is not about people with special needs. This is a project about each of us.
As far as I understand, the project has already been completely filmed?
Today (September 21 – note by Mediasat) last day of filming. But work on the project continues, castings do not stop. I don't know if we can talk about a second season or if we will talk about it, but anything is possible. Filming ends, work on the project does not. If you think that after filming our editors stop communicating with the heroes of the project, then this is not so.
People sometimes get the impression that this is exactly what happens – the project has been filmed and that’s it.
I can say for sure that when filming ends, the film crew does not let the participant go, and the participant does not let the film crew go. This project brings us together and you know what a common holiday it is when someone loudly announces: “Oh, Vanya wrote that they kissed again!” This became our main victories and medals.
What was the most difficult or unexpected thing for you?
I don’t want to talk about difficulties. What's unexpected? I knew that this project would be a revolution, but I didn’t think it would be this much. To be honest, I didn’t expect that I would be able to completely break the ice and reach people. I never thought that our participants, people who had to defend themselves all their lives, would be so grateful, so open to love and good relationships. And this breakdown, when a girl who always spoke in a whisper, already in a well-trained voice, says: “I am beautiful!”... I thought that this only happens in the movies.
It was very difficult for me to be in all places at the same time. We had six film crews, three of them, alternating week after week, filming their stories in parallel. And when something urgent happened to everyone at the same time, and this something - upending the world and blowing away the brain - it was not easy. For example, the police came to visit someone on the set, or somewhere the film crew refuses to leave the set at three o’clock in the morning, because the characters became romantic, which means that we won’t sleep for another day. And the film crew does not drink champagne with the heroes, declaring their love and soaring on wings. But they understood that it was necessary. And in the third film crew, for example, suddenly the hero decided that he needed a parachute. Yes, he must jump for the sake of his beloved and definitely tomorrow morning! And this is a guy with cerebral palsy, and this is at night. It’s impossible to do this so quickly. But this project concentrated so much desire to make love real and change lives that, I repeat, anything was possible.
I am very glad that such a project happened in my life, because it is happiness for a television worker to do what you want, and the way you want.
11:35 24.09.2015
Perhaps I haven’t looked forward to a single TV premiere this season more than the start of the project "Halves" on "New Channel". He intrigued me even at the idea stage: what could be done with the British Undateables format after the gorgeous American version? All in all, I was very curious how the team would cope with its adaptation Laura Maltseva. And in general, how will such an outlandish TV plant look on Ukrainian soil? Our society, you see, is not as tolerant as in countries where this show is taken for granted.
After watching the trailer, already from the first story I was expecting something that would tickle my nerves. More precisely, a person who, due to physical characteristics, cannot count on the attention of the opposite sex.
And here is a very pretty girl.
Two arms, two legs. Proper facial features. There seemed to be no flaws. Well, except for excessive thinness: the first heroine of the first issue of “Halves” is anorexic. And then - thinness under the dress. And in general, in our society, as is customary: the thinner, the more beautiful.
However, you shouldn’t be surprised: I remember that the creators of the project told me, that they decided to move away from the format as much as possible and create their own in a British wrapper, focusing on mental torment. Well, let’s say: sincere ones are so sincere. Although we now have a lot of them, these mental torments, in any project, including talent shows. But “Halves” still intrigued others.
This is where my complaints end. Believe it or not, I spent the next hour and a half searching in vain for something to complain about. And, it seems, I didn’t find it.
Here is at least the heroine’s interview: clearly, not drawn out, but emotionally and dramatically structured very clearly.
And the story turned out to be truly creepy: a beautiful 16-year-old girl 8 years ago decided to simply kill herself by refusing to eat. Now she already weighs as much as 40 kg with a height of 173 - she finally agreed to go to the rehab center. And once she weighed 31 kg and calmly told her mother what dress to bury her in.
As the project psychologists found out, all this was in order to punish the father who did not give his daughter due attention.
By the way, about psychologists. I thought for a long time who Natalya Kholodenko reminds me of. Remember the program “Understand. Forgive"? It's like they took it from there. And coach Boris Pakhol is clearly laying claim to the laurels Dmitry Karpachev: He spoke threateningly to the heroine, immediately denounced her and demanded that she immediately apologize to her family for tormenting them for so many years. Well, in the end, each channel needs its own Karpachev.
In any case, psychologists in “Halves” are not the main characters. They are something between presenters and a tool for interrupting between stories. One of their main functions is announce the producers' decision decide which person to “assign” as the hero’s soul mate.
For example, they decided to pair the depressed and withdrawn Masha with a cheerful red-bearded man - toastmaster Dima, named Krendel.
And for the second hero... Sorry, I didn’t introduce you to the second hero. That's where the history is! For her, one casting of “Halves” can be given a solid “A”.
Pavel Myshev was born without legs and hands - “congenital amputation” - and was abandoned by his parents in an orphanage. But at the same time, he did not become bitter, remained a romantic, skates, dances, plays sports, draws, embroiders... And still hopes to forget the girl who left him ten years ago for his “full-fledged” friend, and to meet a person who will appreciate his heart.
At this point, even I, I admit, cried.
In general, they found a seemingly suitable woman for Pavel:
33-year-old Taisiya herself once survived a car accident, because of which she said goodbye to her favorite dances and her beloved husband. So they would clearly have something to talk about.
Well, let's go on dates.
Waving with Dima the saffron milk cap sent prepare chocolate (which the girl, of course, flatly refused to eat) and distribute it to passers-by
Pavel was helped to arrange breakfast for Taisiya on the grass
Then conflicts began: Masha and Dima were slightly far-fetched (he supposedly did not know that the girl was being treated for anorexia, and when she had to return from a date to the rehab center by eight in the evening, he was allegedly offended), Taya and Pavel had life: both - strong personalities, and no one wanted to give in.
Well, without testing:
Taya with injured legs and a fear of heights and Pavel on prosthetics were offered to climb the bell tower of the Belfry of the Pechersk Lavra
They took Masha... to the cemetery
Where Pakhol led the girl to the grave with her name...
He put her, hysterical, in a coffin and began to throw earth at it...
Cruel, but effective: in the coffin Masha rethought everything and suddenly wanted to live!
And then the cheerful Dima asked for a date with her parents and immediately explained to Masha’s dad that he was wrong in relation to his daughter.
Dad, characteristically, immediately realized everything
And finally, the most exciting moment: will the couples work out?
Here, in my opinion, everything was quite logical: Dima invited Masha to “be friends for now” (well, at least honestly).
Taya said “yes” to Pavel. It is difficult to predict whether their couple will form outside the frame: I hope the “Halves” team will someday film an episode “life after the show.” But I think the main goal has been achieved: people who had no hope received it. And we, healthy and “ordinary,” saw that there is another world. And that its residents also need love and attention.
“Halves” lasted almost two hours (without advertising - an hour and 35 minutes), but there was no irresistible desire to switch. Everything had an impact: high-quality casting, development of stories, correct editing (as I say - nothing superfluous), and a very moderate presence of psychologists, just in the right “dose,” and sufficient, but not speculative, drama.
In general, congratulations: the show was a decent one. All that remains is for the channel’s audience to appreciate it. So far the figures have turned out to be: 5.79% and 6.95% for audiences 18-54 (50+) and 14-49 (50+).
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I learned about this show from friends, decided to watch a couple of episodes to give my own assessment of what I saw (and regretted my decision)
The meaning of the transfer
A romantic project and unique heroes whom society does not want to fit into generally accepted norms and thereby deprives them of the opportunity to find their soul mate and be loved. The creators of the project will correct this, find a truly soul mate for each hero and arrange a dream date that can change their destiny forever. Each episode features three heroes, each of whom will have two dates to see if the hero or heroine is suitable for each other.
There will be no leader in the project, but there will be experts whose task is to help them.
There will be a symbol in the show. Pendant in the shape of a heart divided in two. If the heroes find their love, they will share it with their chosen one or chosen one.
Well, everything seems clear - this is something like a marriage agency. They select a couple, go on a date and make a decision. There have already been many such programs. What makes this show different?
Let's start in order
Presenters, experts.
Natalia Kholodenko and Boris Pakhol
Their tasks: get to know the hero, find a mate for him, guide the hero throughout the program (help with advice, action).
Heroes
I think, that's the main difference. This program features disabled people, overweight people, albinos, simply modest people who have communication problems, and many others. Some episodes really turned out to be touching and bright.
But. I don't understand, Why was it necessary to invite people into the program who openly came there for fame? Great, they promoted themselves, but they make it almost impossible to watch “Halves.”
If the heroes find their love, they will share it (the pendant) with their chosen one or chosen one.
As a sign that they are ready to start a relationship with each other, they should exchange name pendants.
My opinion
The idea was good, but the implementation let us down. Somewhere you can see a frank production, somewhere it’s simply unpleasant to look at freaks and people who go to any program just to be on TV.
The amount of unpleasantness overshadows the good, touching moments in the program.
Music(!)
That's what's in this show Wonderful. The program has beautiful footage, which is accompanied by great music.
Overall, I don’t think the show is essential viewing; it may be suitable if you’ve had a difficult day and want to take your mind off it.
********* Update!**********
For Valentine's Day (02.14.16) they decided to please us and show us special edition of the show "Halves". Here they will tell us how the relationship between the heroes developed after the project.
Everyone was invited to the ball. You can only get there through a mini-red carpet lined with fans and through conversations with psychological experts.
Many couples stayed together, there are those who found their person outside the project. Several heroes began to meet with other participants in the project (that is, not with those whom the experts had chosen for them). I will consider the pairs that interested me:
The guys came to the program together. After the project, Oksana’s health has improved and she is becoming more independent.
This pair is an example of symbiosis from different series.
But things didn’t work out for this couple. Julia came to the ball with her boyfriend.
The most unexpected couple in my opinion
Maria, who suffered from anorexia, changed the most