Sweet Life (TV series)

A single mother from Perm turns out to be in the capital of Russia, where she makes significant changes to the established life of six successful 30-year-old Muscovites.

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Cast

Guest stars in episodes

In episodes

• In the popularity rating of the video service Amediateka, “Sweet Life” takes second place, second only to the first season of the television series “ Game of Thrones ”. In the first 2 weeks after the series was posted on an online service, almost 11,000 people watched it ^[6] .
• On the TNT channel, the series went with good ratings. The share of the premiere of “Sweet Life” among viewers from 18 to 30 years old was 22.2%, from 14 to 40 years old - 15.9%. It is interesting that the capital’s ratings were not much ahead of the all-Russian ratings, although the heroes of the series are representatives of the Moscow middle class, and the content of the project is more like the dramas of Western cable channels. For television, the successful premiere of TNT has confirmed the hypothesis that demand for complex dramas exists while the market remains unsaturated ^[7] .

The series received mixed ratings from television critics, as well as movie stars and show business.

“That rare case when you clearly recognize the time in the series is here and now. For once, the authors write not for some unknown TV viewer, but for you or a person who resembles you ”

- Miloslav Chemodanov, The Village

“Actors play quite lively, but what is there - they are clearly a hundred times more alive than their colleagues who star in most Russian TV shows!”

- Olga Shakina, Vedomosti

"The series is just fire"

- Ekaterina Lvovna Khai

“I started watching last night, I can’t tear myself away from it. This is about life. Sorry, only 6 episodes "

- Ksenia Borodina

“The wonderful series“ Sweet Life ”, my friends are shooting it. And I knew that he would be successful. But for some reason he refused to star there. ”

- Vitaly Gogunsky

“The series“ Sweet Life ”is about the private life of young people. There is sex and mate. But everything is organic and almost like in reality ”

- Arina Borodina, Forbes columnist

“I think it’s a product for which I’m not ashamed, and which can be proud of”

- Anna Sagalovich

"I watch the series" Sweet Life ", I'm waiting for the second season"

- Alexander Nezlobin

Comparison with other films and television series

“When viewing“ Sweet Life ”, I recall the provocative picture of directors Natalya Merkulova and Alexei Chupov“ Intimate places ”... Someone will notice a paraphrase - a scene of spouses coitus in the bathroom on a washing machine (with a mechanical message in the finale:“ The quick washing process is completed ”) similar to the scene that begins the film Lars von Trier's “ Antichrist ”. And the finale of the last, sixth series (which, by the way, turns everything upside down) is similar to the finale of “ Lily of the valley silver ” Tigran Keosayan ”

- Vera Tsvetkova, Independent newspaper

“You can inevitably compare the series about love with the four main characters with the“ Short Course of a Happy Life ”and“ Sex and the City ”, but unlike them,“ Sweet Life ”is not a 15–20 episode season, populated by dozens of characters, but compact story of six episodes "

- Fedor Panfilov, Colta.ru

“If they tried to hint at TNT for a remake of the Fellinian “ Sweet Life ”, then in vain ...“ A short course in a happy life ”by Valeria Gai Germanika next to the current TNT product looks like a real masterpiece - with full-blooded characters, twisting plot twists and lively emotions. All this in “Sweet Life” is not. But the claim is the same - like the "creative class", try to get into his lonely nerve. And the series fails miserably, frantically fake and kicks at every step. They swear here - but so unnaturally that the “beep” standing guard over the law serves as a crutch for the actors, and not an obstacle. Here they make love, but right in their clothes - not beautiful and not terrible, but just boring. They even show nudity here - but only on the waist and in the fourth plan, which serves in this case as a replacement for the fig leaf ”

- Alexey Krizhevsky and Dmitry Cheremnov, Gazeta.ru

• On May 30, 2014, it was announced that the script for the second season of Sweet Life is already being written and will consist of 12 episodes ^[1] .
• July 13, 2014 it became known that the second season will consist of 8 episodes and will be released on TNT channel in early 2015 ^[4] .
• September 11, 2014 it was reported that the shooting of the second season took place in the summer in Riga ^[8] .
• On September 16, 2014, actor Nikita Panfilov slightly opened the veil of secrecy of the second season of Sweet Life:

• First, there will be eight episodes, not six. Secondly, the main task was to change the characters' characters as much as possible. Each of the characters will open completely on the other side. There will be a lot of new heroes, but there will remain those whom the audience has already seen and managed to fall in love with. My Igor, for example, will gradually begin to change for the better. Although the one he was in the first season is nothing more than a mask. It’s just that a woman once offended Igor ... [9] .

• On May 31, 2015, the general producer of the series Anton Schukin announced that on June 16, 2016 the shooting of the third season, which will consist of 8 episodes, will start ^[10] .
• May 10, 2016 it became known that the third season for the series will be final, and the number of episodes in it will be 7.

• "Sweet Life" was the first major Russian television series, which premiered on the Internet 2 weeks before showing on television ^[11] .
• The action of the first season of the series fits in just 8 days ^[12] .
• The music and production producer of the series, the author of two musical compositions, as well as the performer of the role of the former guy of the main character from the city of Perm, was the ex-soloist of the group “ Prime Minister ” Dmitry Lanskoy ^[13] .
• Actress Marta Nosova is a professional dancer and finalist of the project "Dancing without rules" on TNT ^[14] .
• For the sake of participating in the “Sweet Life” actress Maria Shumakova specially recovered by 15 kg, and then dropped them already 3 months after the end of the shoot thanks to daily bikram yoga classes ^[15] .
• Most of the series was shot in Riga , the capital of Latvia ^[16] .

• The page of the series on the official website of the channel TNT
• Series page on the video service Amediateka
• Series page on Good Story Media website