Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestSix friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.
Acting
Vernik's simmering restraint before everything cracks.
Writing
Stychkin's cruel gift for making privilege feel claustrophobic.
Creator
Evgeniy Stychkin
Grigory Vernik
Антон Алексеев
Sofya Arzhanykh
Алина Тростянецкая
Ilya Vinogorsky
Марк Филатов
Ekaterina Voronina
Соня Карпова
Irina Pautova
Катя Дмитриева
Sergey Gorodnichy
Вадим Денисов
Savely Naumov
Семён Билан
Ekaterina Mezina
Полина
Margarita Mezina
Кристина
Anna Zavtur
Елена Сальникова
Viktoriya Tolstoganova
Нина Витте
Aleksandr Pal
Геннадий Сухов
Artyom Bystrov
Андрей Толбоев
Evgeniy Stychkin
Роман Алексеев
Olga Sutulova
Ольга Тростянецкая
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stychkin cast mostly theater actors with zero TV experience to capture raw, unpolished chemistry.
The title references the insect's 17-year cycle — Russian critics read it as a bitter joke about a generation that won't survive to reproduce.
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