TV Show Review: To the Lake

Admittedly, I was into this show enough to watch the entire season over one weekend. It’s a Russian TV show dubbed in English, so I lucked out having to pay close attention to subtitles.

But the show isn’t original – think The Walking Dead, only very…Russian. (Bleak and snowy LOL) There are few zombies to be seen but the characters spend most of their time fighting about pre-outbreak drama. Meaning mostly love triangles.

What stands out most to me about this show is how fucking crazy the women are. Especially Sergey’s ex, Ira. BATSHIT CRAZY. A C-word, really. And that is one word that I use sparingly for people who really deserve it. And OMG, this woman is a terrible person who just falls in love with everyone and has sex with them.

Then there are the teenagers – are they teenagers? The girl is so rebellious but how she shows it is through sex and alcohol. She seduces the other teenager, Misha, who has Asperger’s (he’s the one character I like). This is less gross than it sounds, I think, because he’s like her for a while. But anyway. Zombie apocalypse but sex drama.