Love During Non-Working Weeks (Season 1)

Love During Non-Working Weeks (2020) is a Russian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, set during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown when the government declared a string of paid days off and everyone suddenly had nowhere to go. Directed by Leonid Margolin, rated 16+.

The premise is simple: confinement forces people together. Some are stuck with family, some with a near-stranger, some alone with habits they'd rather not examine. Out of that comes a pile of awkward situations — video dates, fights over groceries, working from the kitchen table, and a few romances that the quarantine made possible. The cast includes Zoya Berber, Roman Popov, Liza Moryak, Oleg Vereshchagin and Garik Petrosyan.

The show mines the very recognizable mess of those early lockdown days and plays it as light situational comedy rather than drama. It's aimed at viewers who'd rather laugh at the recent past than relive its stress. Stream Love During Non-Working Weeks online on iFILM.