- Country: Russia
- Genre: drama, comedy
- Producer: E. Hovhannisyan
- World premiere: 2021 (more.tv)
- Starring: I. Gorbachev, A. Mikhailova, I. Nosova, V. Shmykova, V. Kishchenko, A. Lapenko, V. Tolstoganova, M. Troyik, S. Gilev, S. Thomas Oksner and others.
The 1st season of the sensational and bright Russian TV series "Chiki" did not have time to end, but rumors about the 2nd season already appeared. How will the story of desperate girlfriends continue and will there be a hint of a continuation? The final episode (released July 16, 2020) is already available to watch in the online cinema more.tv. The first four episodes were watched by about 3.5 million viewers, and after the series by Eduard Oganesyan became the most popular and mentioned on the pages of the Russian Internet. Chiki is undoubtedly a breakthrough in the Russian serial industry. This is an unusual story about how girls of easy virtue suddenly get a chance and the right for a happy personal life. In season 1, the friends did not manage to open their fitness center, and the finale completely amazed the audience, leaving many unanswered questions. Will there be a second season, when to wait for the release date and the trailer for the continuation of the Chiki series, and what the plot might be.
Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.7.
Irina Gorbacheva confirmed in her Instagram that there will be no 2 seasons
Season 1
How season 1 ended. And fitness has nothing to do with it
Zhanna Romka's son speaks at a school event and sees his mother being detained and taken away by the police for arson. Danil rushes into the store where Luda works with the gang, takes the cash register and beats her, after which the girl ends up in the hospital with a concussion. Father Sergiy persuades to let Zhanna go. Marina finally decides to confess to Jeanne that she is in love with Kostya. Yura came to take revenge on Danila for Luda, which further enrages the would-be Cossack, who can no longer stop so as not to destroy his life and the lives of those around him.
Valera offers Zhanna a share in the business and help in dealing with the loan. Now she needs to give the entire amount to the bank in a month, so as not to lose her home. The wife of Father Sergius suspects her husband of temptation, because he is eager to help Jeanne with money. Anton proposes to Sveta, after which it turns out that she is pregnant. In the evening, Jeanne abruptly decides to leave the city with her son, but the police come to the house and take her to prison. They have in their hands a detention order based on testimony.
In the end, Zhanna decides on a frank confession to her friends, because her story in Moscow was not what she painted it. Now it is urgent to formalize the consent of paternity for Kostya so that people from the ministry do not take away her son from Jeanne, and then think about repaying the debt. The final scene makes it clear that the arson was committed by the children, Jeanne's son and his girlfriend, a gypsy.
The finale paints a hopeless picture, it was impossible to dream of less ... We all need a 2nd season so that the girls have another chance for a brighter future.
Season 1 plot
The action of the series takes place in a small Kuban town, which gives a special flavor to what is happening. Three friends Luda, Sveta and Marina work as prostitutes in a roadside cafe with the “oily” name “Colosseum”. Girls almost die inside a truck with pork carcasses due to the fault of a drunk driver who fell asleep at the wheel. This will become the point of no return.
And also the return to their city of the fourth friend and colleague Zhanna, who left for the capital long ago, performed by the unsurpassed Irina Gorbacheva. Together with Zhanna, the girls get involved in an adventure, wanting to open a fitness club together, having quit their job at the Coliseum. But here's the bad luck: disgruntled envious people won't let their friends escape from their past life.
As a result, in loans and debts, problems and personal dramas, the girls are deprived of everything: the premises for fitness were taken away, Zhanna faces prison and the sale of the house, and other girlfriends are pursued by the cruel rapist Danila, local crime bosses and a former pimp employer.
But first of all, this is a series not only about women of easy virtue, but about ordinary people and how difficult it is to remain human in difficult times. Here is sisterhood, and fortitude, and an endless circle of violence, and the harsh reality of the Russian hinterland, and black humor, and even dramedies.
Playlist of the series "Chiki"
Soundtracks:
- London Grammar - Non Believer
- ROSALÍA - Nos Quedamos Solitos
- The Temper Trap - Soldier On
- The Temper Trap - Lost love
- Petlyura - Wall
- A-Ha - Velvet
- Ivan Dorn - Chiki
- Sabrina - She
- Valery Zalkin - Lonely branch of lilac
- Shukar Collective - Lautarium
- Maxim Fadeev - Run across the sky
- Sirotkin - Forever
- Pompeya - Cheenese
- Petlyura - Alyoshka
- Nelson Can - I Wanna Be with You
- Bratia Stereo - Devil Or God
- Gone with the Wind - Poltergeist
- Assai - I'm going after you
- NAT feat. Samplekilla - Smile
- BEDROOMS - CHUESH
- Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
- Gone With The Wind - Cocoa
- Commissioner - You will leave
- Bratia Stereo - Ding Dong
- Yaroslav Evdokimov - Dreamer
- Alice Mon-Diamond
- Moon - Alice
- Vladimir Kuzmin - When you call me
- Tosya Chaikina - Tears
- Magamet Dzybov - Khazbulat
- Nelson Can - You Are Digging Your Grave
- sin with sebastian - Shut Up (And Sleep with Me)
Production
Director - Eduard Hovhannisyan ("Everyone Has Their Own Cinema", "Vangelia", "Investigator Tikhonov", "Aznif").
Voiceover team:
- Screenplay: E. Oganesyan, Nastya Kuznetsova ("Barboskins", "Courtyard"), Anton Kolomeets ("Tonya is crying on the bridge of lovers", "Your tutor");
- Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan ("Arrhythmia", "Liquidation", "Apostle"), Yulia Ivanova ("Storm"), Fyodor Bondarchuk ("Battalion", "Sputnik", "Ice 2", "Invasion", "Dyldy") and etc.;
- Cinematography: Yuri Nikogosov ("Chernobyl: the Exclusion Zone", "Treason"), Mikhail Dementyev ("The Last of the Magikyan", "How I Became Russian");
- Artists: Danila Kolikov, Elena Kazakevich ("In Bed", "Fyodor's Journey through Moscow at the Beginning of the XXI Century");
- Editing: E. Hovhannisyan.
Studios
- National Media Group (NMG)
- Mars Media Entertainment
- Sigma
Filming location: Kabardino-Balkaria, Prokhladny.
Actors
Cast:
- Irina Gorbacheva ("Arrhythmia", "The Story of One Purpose", "Young Guard", "Matter of Honor");
- Alena Mikhailova ("Whirlpool", "In a Cage");
- Irina Nosova ("Tonya is crying on the bridge of lovers");
- Varvara Shmykova ("Dislike", "Split", "Dove");
- Vitaly Kishchenko ("Brownie", "Method", "Exile");
- Anton Lapenko (Return Home, Toptuny);
- Victoria Tolstoganova ("Moving Up", "Call Center", "Above the Sky");
- Mikhail Troinik (“How Vitka Garlic took Lyokha Shtyr to the Home for the Disabled”, “Method”, “Bureau”);
- Sergei Gilev ("Policeman from Rublyovka in Beskudnikovo");
- Stephen Thomas Ochsner (Moving Up, Rio).
Interesting Facts
Interesting that:
- The age limit is 18+.
- Season 1 premiere - June 4, 2020.
- The creators launched a social campaign against domestic violence. Starting from the 6th, each subsequent episode was accompanied by a disclaimer that scenes of physical and psychological violence were present in the series. And if any of the viewers or acquaintances encountered similar situations, they can call the hotline throughout Russia at 8 (800) 7000 600.
The series "Chiki" (2020) has broken all records for views, which means that viewers simply need a 2nd season (the release date of new episodes and the trailer can be expected no earlier than 2021).