"Natural Selection," Russia’s Most Successful Web Series, Wraps Third Season

Filming of the third season of the web series "Natural Selection" has been completed. An ironic dramedy based on real first dates has been released since 2020 with the support of the Internet Development Institute.

The series about meetings and partings has collected more than 18 million views on VKontakte, was nominated for the National Award in the field of the web industry, was selected for the competitive programs of ten international film festivals and was released on online platforms in Belgium and South Korea.


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The second season ended with the separation of the main characters - Vova and Alice. In the new series, viewers will find out whether they can find mutual understanding or whether everyone will choose their own path. The third season will be the last, the audience is waiting for a bright plot point - a wedding. But who will be the chosen one?


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Filming took the whole of July and took place in Moscow and the Moscow region. In the last episode, the heroes of the first two seasons will meet. New episodes will be released in September.

"This is the final season: the brightest, the most spectacular, the most adult, simply the most. Usually the last seasons of TV shows are such survival. But we end Natural Selection not with just a dot, but with three exclamation marks. Therefore, we gathered familiar heroes and led them through new adventures. The roofs of Moscow and dances on the summer veranda, talk shows and weddings, humor and light sadness - in "Natural Selection - 3" there is everything for which the audience fell in love with the series. And a little more, "says director Kirill Alekhin.


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A team literally from all over the world worked on the project - the film editor Artem Sokolovsky edits in Indonesia, and the composer Eduard Konovalov writes music for the series while in France.

The main roles will be played by Efim Petrunin ("Walk, Vasya!"), Alexei Makarov ("Soldout", "Happy End"), Artem Grigoriev ("Construction", "Brothers Ch", "Soldiers"), Marina Vulf ("The Best day", "The Eighties"), Ilya Smirnov ("Beyond Myself"), Rodion Tolokonnikov ("There's Something Not in Borenka", "Anna the Detective"), Pavel Afonkin ("Insomnia"), Yulia Marycheva, Maria Mileshkina and others.


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"Natural Selection 3" is eight episodes of ten minutes, which will be released in the fall of 2022. The series is produced with the support of the Internet Development Institute by the film companies Life Is Short and FakePublish. The friends of the project are VKontakte, the Kino-Teatr.Ru website and the music label Up! Up! Up! music.

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