Olivier and the Robots (Season 1)

Olivier and the Robots (Оливье и роботы, 2023) is a Russian sci-fi sketch series you can watch online on iFILM. It gathers six standalone stories set in a near future where clones, household androids and digitized minds are everyday stuff — and people still haven't learned to live with any of it.

Every episode is a quick jab at our anxiety about technology. A young woman braces for a serious talk with her boyfriend and runs into his clones instead. A literature teacher finds a sneaky way to hook bored students on the Russian classics. A man named Vsevolod passes himself off as a domestic robot. And a laid-off courier goes hunting for the food-delivery bots that took his job. Irina Gorbacheva, Gosha Kutsenko and Leonid Kanevsky carry the digital chaos into very different corners.

Six directors split the work, and the anthology shape suits it: dislike one chapter and the next is a whole new world. Rated 12+, the tone stays light and wry — think Black Mirror rewritten as a comedy about ourselves. It's for viewers who want their science fiction with a grin rather than a grim forecast. Stream Olivier and the Robots (2023) online on iFILM.