Mediator (Seasons 1–3)

Mediator (2021) is a Russian psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Andrey Pavlov walks into hostage situations unarmed and builds rapport with the people holding the guns in seconds.

Rescues, though, aren't where the money is. Pavlov earns his real fortune in big business — wherever people can't reach a deal, he engineers the outcome they need, for staggering fees. He reshapes himself completely for every job, a knack for transformation he sharpened as a boy navigating a difficult mother. He reads people so well that he trusts no one anymore. Not even himself. Andrey Burkovsky stars, alongside Yulia Peresild, Darya Moroz and Irina Starshenbaum.

Cruel and coldly calculating, the show digs into what a gift for persuasion costs the man who has it: the better Andrey controls other people's choices, the less of himself is left. It's for viewers who like their psychology dark and their lead morally murky. Stream the series Mediator (2021) online on iFILM.