History Series / Siberia

* AxCrazy: Miljan
* BadassIsraeli: Sabina

* CrazySurvivalist: Sabina

* 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.]]

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks: The entire first episode (including the opening credits), looks and feels like a RealityTV show, with two contestants getting eliminated before even arriving at camp, and many others embodying certain archetypes in an almost cliched matter. Then Tommy dies and it quickly becomes clear that something is not right.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: The reveal of Tommy's death.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Tommy dies near the end of the first episode

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Tommy. He's the nicest of the group, and doesn't live past the first episode. His passing is greatly mourned by the others.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of RealityTV shows like {{Survivor}}.

* BuryYourGays: Played pretty straight. [[spoiler: Natalie dies only an episode after it is revealed she might be bisexual, and willing to give a relationship with Annie a chance.]] And then [[spoiler: Annie gets shot in the last episode of the first season - making the only two main characters to die that survived the premiere the only two non-straight characters as well.]]

* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: When the contestants find the producer's base camp trashed and deserted, there is blood everywhere but no bodies.]]
** This also happens later when [[spoiler: Johnny, Joyce, Daniel, and Sam find a research station.]]
* {{Expy}}: A lot of clear-cut character types from reality shows are at play, but Esther in particular is very clearly inspired by Jerri Manthey of {{Survivor}}.

* [[FoundFootageFilms Found Footage Series]].
* GenreShift: From RealityTV to Found Footage

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

* NiceGuysFinishLast: 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 nowhere. She also realizes that their plan to light a signal fire to summon help may very well draw whatever wiped out the producer's base camp as well.

* SituationalSexuality: Natalie with Annie.
* SmallSecludedWorld

* BuryYourGays: Played pretty straight. [[spoiler: Natalie dies only an episode after it is revealed she might be bisexual, and willing to give a relationship with Annie a chance.]] And then [[spoiler: Annie gets shot in the last episode of the first season - making the only two main characters to die the only two non-straight characters as well.]]

* BillingDisplacement: The same opening credits play in all eleven episodes. These credits include Berglind and Harpreet, who are eliminated after the very first challenge and don't show up past the first fifteen minutes, Tommy, [[spoiler: who dies in the pilot]], George and Victoria, who both leave in the second episode, and Natalie, who appears only in the first four episodes [[spoiler: and pops up again a few episodes later as a corpse]].

* TheDanza: Turned UpToEleven: All of the characters except Annie share a first name with their actors. The end credits in each episode list the actors as "Contestants."

* XMeetsY: Some promotional statements aptly described it as ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' meets ''Series/{{LOST}}'', though there's some ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch Project]]'' thrown in as well.

* ScrewThisIMOutOfHere: [[spoiler: 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.]]

* XMeetsY: Some promotional statements aptly described it as Series/{{Survivor}} meets Series/{{LOST}}, though there's some [[TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch Project]] thrown in as well.

* ShownTheirWork: 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]].