257 Reasons to Live

Season 1 Thirty-year-old Zhenya recovers from cancer and finds her life in shambles. Her troubles just beginning, she discovers an old list in her diary of 257 things she had wanted to do if she lived that gives her a reason to go on. Season 2 Within a year, a new love appeared in Zhenya's life — Maxim, a beautiful and successful guy, whom she met in Bali and was going on a trip to Europe. Zhenya returns to Moscow to see her nephew and see her friends and does not plan to stay more than a couple of days. But unexpected circumstances will ruin all her plans. Supportive Zhenya can not pass by the trouble and risks falling into the maelstrom of problems of her family and friends. In the life of Korotkova, all her past returns, including Konstantin. All this time, he kept Zhenya's notebook in the hope that her most important desire was connected with him. And Zhenya's father, who left the family many years ago, expects that his own daughters will accept him and take care of him. Sister Sonya, who, unlike Zhenya, is not ready to forgive her father, is ruining her successful blogger career and her family life with her own hands. ==Cast and characters==

Main • Polina Maximova as Evgeniya "Zhenya" Korotkova, a 30-year-old young woman who recovered from cancer. • Egor Koreshkov as Konstantin "Kostya", a tennis coach. • Darya Rudenok as Sofia "Sonya", Zhenya's younger sister, Ruslan's girlfriend. • Yulia Topolnitskaya as Anna "Anya", a pregnant friend and colleague of Zhenya. • Anastasia Popova as Irina "Ira", a friend and colleague of Zhenya • Alexey Zolotovitskiy as Nikolay "Kolya" Muratov, a colleague of Zhenya. • Roman Mayakin as Igor Sergeyevich, CEO of the company, Zhenya's chief. • Mikhail Grishchenko as Ruslan "Rus", Sonya's boyfriend. • Alexander Sokolovskiy as Maxim "Max", Zhenya's new boyfriend. Recurring • Maxim Lagashkin as Oleg, Kostya's friend. • Asya Gromova as Daniella "Danya", Kostya's daughter. • Marusya Fomina as Viktoria "Vika", a colleague of Kostya, his lover. • Vitaliy Shcherbina as Nikita, Danya's boyfriend. Guest • Sergey Godin as Dmitry "Mitya", an ex-boyfriend of Zhenya, he is dating with Alisa. • Anna Nevskaya as Alisa Yuryevna, Zhenya's oncologist, she is dating with Mitya. • Kirill Nagiev as Artyom. ==Episodes==

Season 1 (2020) Season 2 (2020–21) == Awards and nominations ==

In 2021, the second season of the series won the Russian National Web Industry Awards for Best Streaming Series (less than 24 minutes). The series was selected for the official competition of the 3rd Cannes International Series Festival. Lead actress Polina Maksimova won the Canneseries Award for Best Performance at the 2020 festival for her role in the series. ==Release==

257 Reasons to Live premiered on the streaming service START on March 26, 2020. START releases 257 Reasons episodes on a weekly basis. The series had its TV premiere on TNT on June 8, 2020. The first two episodes of the second season premiered on START on November 4, 2020. ==References==