Аннотация:Russian television has been at the forefront of articulating the new popular iconographies of post-Soviet childhood and adolescence. This article discusses the constructions of childhood and adolescence, as well as transformations of contemporary families, under the pressures of Putin’s neoliberal economic order. The article examines two recent TV series, Olga (2016) and A Good Person (Khoroshii chelovek, 2020). In particular, the authors focus on the series’ strategies of queering the conventions of portraying the nuclear heteronormative family. They argue that these television series rethink categories of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity as they intersect in media representations of children and adolescents.