I watched the first season of the series ' High Schoolers' and immediately want to express my impression.
I have to admit, I have some weakness for school series. I especially enjoy watching their relationships within the community. Strict teachers, misunderstanding of parents, worries about first love. So simple and so familiar.
' High school & #39 is a very good, kind and bright series. Its main plus is that, despite the seeming simplicity, it is very eventful, and it is impossible to predict what will happen in the next series.
I really liked the cast. Vadim Kozlov was especially pleased with the role of Dima Chizhov (Chizha). From the first seconds of the series, it was impossible to take his eyes off him. From the very beginning it was obvious that this nimble blue-eyed kid ' breaks ' a lot of wood, but still manage to get away with it. Actually, this character lived up to my expectations: it turned out to be extremely frivolous, but at the same time very charming boy, who seemed to be hiding behind external carelessness and some looseness of manners. Is it easy to live alone at seventeen and solve everyday problems in school? Is it easy? Of course not. But Chizha can be called an optimist and ' Sunny' a person, although there were moments when he broke down and behaved not too decently. I think such funny witty ' Chizhey' can be found in every school and in almost every class, although, perhaps, they do not seem so ' problematic' teenagers. So this image is at the same time very bright, interesting and at the same time some painfully familiar, native.
The heroine of Natalia Bakhmatova - Lisa Neustroeva - seems to me one of the most successful images in this series. A quiet domestic girl, almost an excellent student, somehow elusively reminds me of myself at this age, and therefore evokes an even greater, almost unconscious sympathy. The changes in Lisa's character are very well shown. The girl for the year strongly ' grew up'- became more confident, determined. She showed herself to be a person to be reckoned with – and at the same time remained kind, sensitive and attentive to the sufferings and concerns of others. It was interesting to watch her relationship with Chizhov, their gradual rapprochement, eternal quarrels and quarrels.
By the end of the first season, Lisa had changed - and still managed to keep her 'I'.
Ivan Zhagorov in the role of Ivan Polesov at first not too interested in me. The son of a rich father, almost major, ' Englishman' - this image somehow left me indifferent. The situation changed when Ivan really fell in love - truly and unrequited. And ' the object ' his love was Lisa Neustroeva. To be honest, it just hurt me to look at him when he sincerely tried to please Lisa and suffered, seeing that all his efforts were in vain, and Lisa loves another. It was then, I think, that I saw 'the real' Vanya Polesov is defenseless against the power of his own love, but stubbornly following his goal, trying to change the situation despite the circumstances.
At the beginning of the series, attention was unwittingly attracted by Alena Sobolevskaya, played by Marina Zabelina. To confess, this character was not for me, a mercantile girl who measured love with money. I honestly couldn’t figure out whether she finally fell in love with Ivan, or whether she didn’t see the real one, but only thought about the benefits of their relationship. She disappeared from the series as if she had never existed.
But, despite the negative coloring, Alyona was quite an interesting character, this cannot be denied.
In addition to the main storyline, there is also a sideline in the series, where episodic characters unexpectedly appear on the ' front & #39; plan. The relationship of the headwoman Ani Khodatai and Sasha Zabotin, the story of the guard Anton Zarova, ' love' physical education teacher and student Lena Berezkina... Sometimes these secondary characters were very interested and caused a lively, most sincere participation, sometimes on the contrary, annoyed and seemed ' superfluous' and ' unnecessary' in the plot.
Thus, some episodes and episodes were remembered very clearly, while some remained blurred in memory.
Should I watch this series? Yeah, I guess. It will be especially interesting for schoolchildren and those who want to plunge into the amazing, warm atmosphere of school days. This series is for those who remain young at heart and know what it is like to feel as if on the verge of two different worlds – a passing childhood and the coming adult life, where everything is a little different.
8 out of 10