«Lucky» (Season 1)

A washed-up speedway champion now drives strangers around town for cash and drinks too much. Lucky (2021) is a Russian dramedy you can watch online on iFILM. A crash on the track ended Ivan Potapov's racing career, and the rest of his life followed it down: his marriage broke apart, his son lives with his mother and stepfather, and steady work is a memory.

Ivan has more or less given up on himself, a middle-aged man with no goals and no plan. Yet he'll drop everything to help a stranger, and it's those chance encounters behind the wheel that slowly pull him back toward something. Yevgeny Tsyganov leads the cast alongside Maxim Lagashkin, Svetlana Khodchenkova and Vladimir Menshov, with Vladimir Shchegolkov directing. The humor runs dry and unvarnished, built on a shrug of "we'll figure it out somehow." A second-chance drama for viewers who prefer messy underdogs to flawless heroes. Stream Lucky (2021) online on iFILM.