The Vampires of Midland (Seasons 1–3)

The Vampires of Midland (2021) is a Russian fantasy comedy-detective series you can watch online on iFILM — set not in a gothic castle but in Smolensk, a mid-sized provincial Russian city surrounded by birch groves and Soviet apartment blocks.

Grandpa Slava, born Svyatoslav Vernidubovich, is the oldest member of a vampire family that has lived quietly in the city for decades. Yuri Stoyanov plays him with deadpan exhaustion: a centuries-old creature who wants nothing more than to be left alone. The family never kills, follows the local vampire code enforced by the stern Irina Vitalyevna (Tatiana Dogileva), and mostly just gets on with being a family. Then someone finds bloodless bodies in the birch grove outside town, and suddenly every pair of eyes in Smolensk is on them.

The series earns its comedy not through parody but by playing the premise completely straight — the supernatural just becomes another source of neighborhood friction. Artem Tkachenko, Olga Medynich, and Gleb Kalyuzhny round out the cast. Stream all episodes of The Vampires of Midland online on iFILM.