Penultimate Instance (Seasons 1–3)

Penultimate Instance (2022) is a Russian sci-fi comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Maxim and Valentina clock in at the Department for the Distribution of Souls, where they get 24 hours before someone dies to file them for heaven or hell.

Both already have paradise locked in by their work contracts, so the rules feel negotiable. Maxim runs a side hustle — selling reserved seats in heaven to oligarchs. Valentina chases something harder: getting her own husband out of hell. Pavel Priluchny and Irina Rozanova lead, with Fyodor Dobronravov and Daria Melnikova filling out the cast.

Director Olga Akatyeva treats the afterlife as a corrupt government office, and the joke lands because it looks exactly like ours. Bribes, paperwork, deadlines — only here eternity is on the line. Stream Penultimate Instance (2022) online on iFILM.