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STROKE, THE (VIAPLAY US)
Premieres Thursday, March 12
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
3/12/26
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STATUS:
new this spring (yet to premiere) |
TIME SLOT:
thursdays from 3:01 AM-3:30 AM EST |
CURRENT SEASON:
1 (8 episodes) |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Viaplay US's press release, February 2026) Coming off rave reviews in its Polish release, The Stroke is a daring Polish prestige drama about a powerful cultural figure whose stroke dismantles his body, status, and emotional armor. Centered on an openly gay, middle-aged man in a country where homosexuality is legal yet politically and socially contested, its matter-of-fact portrayal is quietly radical. In a tour-de-force, transformative performance Jacek Poniedziałek portrays Jacek a celebrated culinary critic and creator of popular TV food shows - a fixture of Warsaw restaurants, late night bars, and artistic circles. Brilliant, caustic, and self-destructive, he takes pleasure in skewering the bourgeois tastes of the very audience that idolizes him. After suffering a stroke, Jacek returns to work forced to confront uncomfortable questions: how do you pursue new desires after your dreams have already come true? And after a life-altering crisis, are we destined to go return to who we were - or become someone entirely new? Unlike anything else on Polish television, The Stroke is the brainchild of acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Paweł Demirski, who set out to create a character that defies the modern burnout culture - a wildly passionate person who, even in collapse, insists that the best is yet to come. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Jacek Poniedziałek as Jacek
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Paweł Demirski as CRTR
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GENRE(S):
· comedy (all)
· comedy (single-camera)
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available
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