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Junior League

2013–2019 · 6 seasons

A scrappy underdog sports drama that mixes rink rivalries with young players' messy personal lives, earnest and easy to get swept up in.

Created by
Andrei Golovkov, Sergey Arlanov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Denis Nikiforov, Ekaterina Klimova, Igor Ogurtsov
Overview
In the town of Podolsk, The Bears hockey club hires a new coach, Sergei Makeyev, a former National Hockey League player, who sets out to get the club to the Junior Hockey League and make The Bears a successful team.

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Created by
Andrei Golovkov, Sergey Arlanov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Denis Nikiforov, Ekaterina Klimova, Igor Ogurtsov
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • found family
  • friendship
  • love
  • betrayal
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance5
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Andrei Golovkov, Sergey Arlanov
Starring
Denis Nikiforov, Ekaterina Klimova, Igor Ogurtsov, Ivan Mulin, Vladimir Zaytsev, Sergey Gabrielyan, Serafima Nizovskaya, Makar Zaporozhskiy
Length
6 seasons, 260 episodes, 48 min each
Network
STS
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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