Psycho (Season 1)

Psycho (Псих, 2020) is a Russian drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Oleg is an in-demand Moscow psychotherapist with half the city's centre on his waiting list. To clients he looks polished and in control; in private he is coming apart — a man of forty still living with his mother, leaning on pills, short-tempered and quietly aggressive.

Reading other people's wounds turns out to be far easier than facing his own. A little over a year ago his wife vanished without explanation. The shift comes when Oleg is pulled into emergency counselling for survivors of a plane crash, of violence, of disaster. His tidy office composure means nothing there, and for once the question of whether he can handle it lands hard.

Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, the show casts theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov in the lead, alongside Elena Lyadova, Oleg Menshikov, Ksenia Rappoport and Marina Alexandrova. It is a talky, slow-paced piece carried by its performances — one for viewers who want drama about a person quietly breaking rather than plot spectacle. Stream the series Psycho (2020) online on iFILM.