Sweet Life (Seasons 1–3)

Six settled Muscovites, one unexpected guest — Sweet Life (2014) is a Russian comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM.

Sasha comes from Perm and makes her living as a go-go dancer at a night club. After a bad run-in at a local rich kid's birthday party, she sends her son to his grandmother and heads to Moscow to stay with her old friend Lera. Lera's circle — played by Marta Nosova, Anastasia Klyueva, Anton Denisenko, and Lukeria Ilyashenko — has careers, nice apartments, and a sense that everything is under control.

The six-episode run earns its title ironically: the sweet life, seen from the inside, turns out to run on habit and pretence, and one person who does not fit the script is enough to crack it. Stream Sweet Life (2014) online on iFILM.