Rare Blood Type (Season 1)

Rare Blood Type (Redkaya gruppa krovi, 2013) is a Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexander Basayev. Nadya Samsonova nurses patients at a regional hospital and heads home every evening to the village where her parents live.

At thirty she has quietly given up on romance. She thinks she is plain, the kind of woman men overlook, so she stopped expecting anything for herself. Yet everyone around her adores her — neighbours, colleagues, the patients on her ward — for her warmth and her habit of dropping everything to help. Ekaterina Porubel carries the whole show in the lead.

This is small, unhurried storytelling about a decent woman life finally decides to reward. Good for viewers who like gentle Russian melodrama set far from the big city. Stream Rare Blood Type online on iFILM.