Scripted series · Premier
To the Lake
A deadly virus. Deadly escape...
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kirill Käro
Sergey
16 eps
Viktoriya Isakova
Anna
8 eps
Maryana Spivak
Irina
16 eps
Natalya Zemtsova
Marina
16 eps
Aleksandr Robak
Leonid
16 eps
Eldar Kalimulin
Misha
16 eps
Victoria Agalakova
Polina
16 eps
Saveliy Kudryashov
Anton
16 eps
Yura Borisov
Zhenya
8 eps
Askar Ilyasov
Ezis
8 eps
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Boris
8 eps
Viktoriya Klinkova
Alyona
8 eps
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Pavel
8 eps
Nikita Elenev
Taras
8 eps
Dima Savyan
Blogger
1 eps
Ilya Sherbinin
Caveman
1 eps
Artyom Suchkov
Pregnant Girl's Husband
1 eps
Aleksey Dmitriev
1 eps
Anna Mikhalkova
1 eps
Igor Savochkin
Bobyl
1 eps
Pavel Vorozhtsov
Man
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How To the Lake actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
To the Lake reads strongest on Spectacle, Character Depth and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 16 episodes.
- Poster unavailableSpecials
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20221 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20198 episodes
7.4IMDbWhen a mysterious plague hits Moscow, a group of survivors flees to the wilderness, threatened by the sickness, looters — and their own bad blood.
Best episode · S01E05 Episode 5
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20228 episodes
8.3IMDbBest episode · S02E06 Episode 6
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
Episode 5
Discovering someone missing, the caravan doubles back and comes upon a good samaritan ... and some horrifying children. The disease reaches the group.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
S01E08
Episode 8
Marriage vows make new beginnings. Ira exposes damning secrets from Anna's diary. Pavel grapples with hard choices. A happy reunion is short-lived.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
S01E04
Episode 4
Strangers, both kind and cruel, change the journey's course, and romance blooms in unexpected places. An angry mob causes chaos and a tragic mistake.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
S01E07
Episode 7
After Boris prays, a blessing arrives — along with more heartbreak. Ira and Sergey struggle with their secret. Safe havens prove anything but.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
S01E01
Episode 1
As a contagious illness, panic and looting ravage Moscow, a thrown-together band of families and neighbors forms a shaky alliance for survival.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
S01E03
Episode 3
Sparks fly between Polina and Misha. A brutal attack puts a life at risk. Some shelter in the storm is shaken by a horrifying discovery next door.
- Directed by Pavel Kostomarov
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Valeriy FedorovichProducer
- Evgeniy NikishovProducer
Writing
- Roman KantorWriter
Direction
- Pavel KostomarovDirector
- Dmitry TyurinDirector
Where to watch
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