Vladimir

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2026

Drama
Comedy

Summary

Based on the acclaimed novel by Julia May Jonas, Vladimir is a seductive eight-part thriller of desire and betrayal starring Rachel Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery. The nameless protagonist (Weisz), who breaks the fourth wall to speak directly to camera and share her innermost thoughts, is middle-aged wife and mother, who has worked for years as a teacher at small liberal arts college. Her marriage to her husband John (Slattery) is stagnating so when a new teacher, Vladimir (Woodall), arrives at the college, the heroine's world spins off its axis. She develops an all-consuming obsession with her colleague and recklessly pursues this fixation at the expense of her marriage and job.

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Jack Seale

Campus comedies have their own brand of waspish mischief, as exemplified by a sharp mini-series made by Sharon Horgan’s production company and based on the hit novel by Julia May Jonas.

Rachel Weisz is an unnamed literature professor at a liberal arts college who has always been the coolest teacher in her workplace, thanks to a cult novel she once wrote — but as middle age approaches she feels her academic and womanly powers waning. Step forward hot young colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall), on whom all the professor’s fantasies are about to be unleashed.

As sexy chaos reigns, Weisz’s constant breaking of the fourth wall means we’re as guilty as she is.

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6.1/10