History Series / Siberia

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 5 Carolina is exposed as TheMole for the producers. Irene gets badly injured in a trap forcing the other contestants to push the button in order to get help. The button is revealed to be a prop. The crew are revealed to be just as stuck as the contestants and they all go the the producers Base Camp, only to find it deserted.

** This also happens later when Johnny, Joyce, Daniel, and Sam find a research station.

* FallGuy: In episode three, it looks as though Johnny stole the food and burned down the shed. Later it turns out to be Carolina, athte behest of the producers.

* TheMole: [Carolina AKA Joyce is a plant by the producers

* TheReveal: Almost every other episode. Carolina burned down the food shed. The button isn't real. The producer's camp has been ransacked. Natalie is dead.

* SanitySlippage: Miljan was kind of weird from the start, but once he finds a totem and book in the woods, he gets increasingly creepy and violent.

* WhatTheHellHero: Esther gets this when her trick is exposed at the start of episode six.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Harpreet, Berglind, and Tommy in the first episode, Victoria and George shortly after.

* EverybodysDeadDave: When the contestants find the producer's base camp trashed and deserted, there is blood everywhere but no bodies.

* TheMole: Carolina AKA Joyce is a plant by the producers

* SacrificialLamb: Tommy, one of the more easygoing and charismatic contestants who risked elimination to help another injured contestant, dies at the end of the first episode.

* ScrewThisIMOutOfHere: George does this shortly after Tommy's death, taking the producer's offer of $5,000 to leave the show now. Victoria later does this after eating some hallucinogenic mushrooms and seeing visions of everyone else dying.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 5 Carolina is exposed as TheMole for the producers. Irene gets badly injured in a trap forcing the other contestants to push the button in order to get help. The button is revealed to be a prop. The crew are revealed to be just as stuck as the contestants and they all go the the producers Base Camp, only to find it deserted.
* WhatTheHellHero: Esther gets this when her trick is exposed at the start of episode six.

* BuryYourGays: Played with. [[spoiler: Natalie and Annie]] both have [[SituationalSexuality complicated sexuality]], although the latter seems very affected by the death of the former and [[spoiler: her]] inability to bury [[spoiler: her]] properly. And then [[spoiler: Annie]] get shot in the last episode of the first season.

* BuryYourGays: Played with. [[spoiler: Natalie and Annie]] both have [[SituationSexuality complicated sexuality]], although the latter seems very affected by the death of the former and [[spoiler: her]] inability to bury [[spoiler: her]] properly. And then [[spoiler: Annie]] get shot in the last episode of the first season.

* AnyoneCanDie: In the first episode, something happens that kills one of the players. One of the cameramen were even injured.

* TheDanza: Turned UpToEleven: ''Almost all'' of the characters share a first name with their actors. Annie is the only character who does not have the same first name as the actress who plays her. The end credits in each episode even list the actors as "Contestants."
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sabina [[spoiler: She was raised in an Orphanage, raped and impregnated by one of the staff members, Dishonorably discharged from the Israeli Defense Force for stopping her commanding officer from raping another girl, causing her to lose custody of her son as a result, and she orginally joined the show to try and get the prize money to get him back.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of RealityTV shows like {{Survivor}} by showing just how screwed the cast of your typical RealityTV show cast would be if they were forced into a life of death situation together.
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler:When the contestants fin the producer's base camp trashed and deserted, there is blood everywhere, but no bodies.]]
** [[spoiler:This also happens later when Johnny, Joyce, Daniel, and Sam find the science station.]]

* [[spoiler:FallGuy: In episode three, it looks as though Johnny stole the food and burned down the shed, turns out, it was actually Carolina. Later she reveals that she was told to do it by the producers.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler: Tommy dies near the end of the first episode]]

* GenreShift: From RealityTV to [[FoundFootageFilms Found Footage]]
* HoneyTrap: Esther seduces one of the cameramen in order to to blackmail him into helping her in the game.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Carolina AKA Joyce]] is a plant by the producers
* NiceGuysFinishLast: [[spoiler:Tommy]]
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Sabina, a retired Israeli soldier who is also the only person who seems to understand that they should be preparing to survive a friggin Russian Winter in the middle of no where. She also realizes that their plan to light a signal fire to summon help may very well draw whatever [[spoiler:wiped out the producer's base camp]] as well.
* OntologicalMystery: What is behind what is happening to them? Who (or what) is stalking them in the woods? Where did all that snow come from? Is whoever is in charge of this show still running things? Or have things gone [=FUBAR=] and have they been abandoned as a result.
* RealityTV: Designed to appear as one, right down to ConfessionCam moments. This is phased out after episode six when the GenreShift is in full effect.
* TheReveal: Almost every other episode. [[spoiler: Carolina burned down the food shed. The button isn't real. The producer's camp has been ransacked. Natalie is dead.]]
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Tommy, one of the more easygoing and charismatic contestants who risked elimination to help another injured contestant, dies at the end of the first episode.]]

* ScrewThisIMOutOfHere: George does this shortly after Tommy's death, taking the producer's offer of $5,000 to leave the show now. [[spoiler:Victoria later does this after eating some hallucinogenic mushrooms and seeing visions of everyone else dying.]]
* ShownTheirWork: The mysterious event that happened in 1908, along with some of the more mysterious happenings in the show? That's based off of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Tunguska event]]. And those [[RealityIsUnrealistic fake-looking]] red-and-white mushrooms that have hallucinogenic properties and are poisonous until boiled? Yep, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria those exist]].
* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler:Natalie, with Annie.]]

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks: The entire first episode (including the opening credits), looks and feels like a RealityTV show, with two contestants even getting eliminated before even arriving at camp, and many others embodying certain archetypes in an almost cliched matter. Then [[spoiler:Tommy dies]] and it quickly becomes clear that something is not right.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 5 [[spoiler:Carolina is exposed as TheMole for the producers. Irene gets badly injured in a trap forcing the other contestants to push the button in order to get help. The button is revealed to be a prop. The crew are revealed to be just as stuck as the contestants and they all go the the producers Base Camp, only to find it deserted.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Esther gets this when [[spoiler: her trick is exposed at the start of episode six.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Harpreet, Berglind, and Tommy]] in the first episode, [[spoiler: Victoria and George]] shortly after.
** Though, [[InUniverse In Universe]], this was probably for the better for those who left...
* WrongGenreSavvy: Neeko. Dear gods, Neeko. Even after everything goes wrong, he still keeps assuming things are props. The only thing he's been right about was [[spoiler:the producers having had the shed burned down to create drama]].
* XMeetsY: Some promotional statements aptly described it as Series/{{Survivor}} meets Series/{{LOST}}. In reality, there's some [[TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch Project]] thrown in as well.
* {{Yandere}}: Miljan has his moments. Especially with Esther.

* TheDanza: Turned UpToEleven: ''All'' of the characters share a first name with their actors, and the end credits in each episode even list the actors as "Contestants."

* OntologicalMystery: What is behind what is happening to them? Who is stalking them in the woods? Where did all that snow come from? Is whoever is in charge of this show still running things? Or have things gone [=FUBAR=] and have they been abandoned as a result.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sabina [[spoiler: She was raised in an Orphanage, raped and impregnated by one of the staff members, Dishonorably discharged from the Israeli Defense for stopping her commanding officer from raping another girl, causing her to lose custody of her son as a result, and she orginally joined the show to try and get the prize money to get him back.]]

* RealityTV: Designed to appear as one, right down to ConfessionCam moments. This is phased out after episode six when the GenreChange is in full effect.

* RealityTV: Designed to appear as one, right down to ConfessionCam moments.

* Chekhov's Gun: There's a machine that dispenses them.

* AffablyEvil: Johnny

* OntologicalMystery: What is behind what is happening to them? Who is stalking them in the woods? Is whoever is in charge of this show still running things? Or have things gone [=FUBAR=] and have they been abandoned as a result.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Neeko. Dear gods, Neeko. Even after everything goes wrong, he still keeps assuming things are props.

AxCrazy: Miljan

* ArcWords: No Rules