OREANDA-NEWS. As RIA Novosti tells, "Epidemic" became the first project from Russia to enter the top 10 best foreign TV series on Netflix in the United States along with "Paper House" in 2020. This fact was announced by the press service of 1-2-3 Production.

The press release states that "Netflix presented the top 10 best foreign TV series in 2020. Among them, for the first time, was a series from Russia -" Epidemic "(To The Lake), which was released on Netflix in October in the Original series category and two weeks stayed in the top 10 most viewed platform projects in the world. "

This news was commented on by the producer of the series Valery Fedorovich, whose words are quoted in the press release. He said that success in America - the most important territory for Netflix, where the Russian TV series first entered the top 10 and ranked # 8 among non-English-language projects of the year - gives confidence that the ice has broken. In connection with this success, he believes that now Russian TV series will be in demand all over the world.

The series "Epidemic", produced by 1-2-3 Production and produced by Valery Fedorovich and Yevgeny Nikishov, predicted an attack by an unknown respiratory virus on Moscow and became one of the most successful Russian TV series abroad. It was listed in the top 30 most watched TV projects on IMDB.com and in the top 15 on Rotten Tomatoes, where it was rated 100% fresh.