The Clean has been on Russian streaming channel Wink for a couple days now and it seems that there are a mixture of reactions on the Russian Internet. Some say that the series is focusing on prostitutes and they believe that is overdone in Russian television culture. Others say that the series is amazing and has a surreal quality to it. I believe that it possible that this series will have many differing emotions attached to it. This isn’t series that tries to paint the Pre-Revolutionary age in St. Petersburg as a nostalgic haze but as something not as appealing to the younger audience.
However, there is an important aspect that often gets overlooked when talking about this series. It is the title of the series.
I was really confused when I saw the title for the series. ‘’Clean’’ in a series about Prostitutes? Really? However, I read something on a Russian internet site that explained it quite well in comparison to my own analysis about it.
Unlike American series, this series seems to be actually smart about its topic.
Clean, according to this one user, means that the women are actually more noble and clean in a sense than the men and women who claim to be noble in this time. While the women are largely abandoned by the society, there is a sense with these women that they have more pure heart than any of those who do not even step inside their establishments. It is important to remember that the Madam in the series tries to make these women believe that they are clean in some subversive way.
The series is essentially about women who are in tough and trying circumstances trying to reclaim ‘’clean’’ away from who controls them and having their own path in life which is not under the heel of people who judge them. That is what the story ‘’Clean’’ is really about.
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