Season 1

Heat (Zhar, 2025), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM, nine episodes of a Russian drama about a brilliant, impossible chef who runs out of kitchens willing to tolerate him.

Mark is the kind of talent that restaurants fire and still lose sleep over. After the dismissal that cuts him off from every establishment that matters, the only person still willing to work with him is Aaron — a young cook with no contacts and zero professional track record. They borrow startup money from the Serbian mob. That decision pays out in a season-long cascade: organized crime pressure, police surveillance, killings Mark did not plan for, and a home life unraveling faster than any deal he can hold together. A living target running a restaurant opening.

Mark Eidelshayn, Daniil Vorobyov, and Anna Chipovskaya bring a density to the series that pushes it well past its culinary premise. Stream Heat Season 1 on iFILM.