Vladimir

After just two episodes, I got good vibes. You do have to accept that the fourth wall is broken, because M (Rachel Weisz) talks to us, the viewers, from minute 1. Fortunately, I don't mind that, and it is also portrayed in such a way that it looks a bit like Joe's spoken thoughts in the series You. Vladimir reminds me of that a bit too, to be honest.

The series exudes quality, I saw that immediately. The sets are beautiful (that house M lives in, so nice!), the dialogue is sharp and profound, partly because two worlds collide: the old world before #MeToo and the new world in which a professor is canceled because he had relationships with students—admittedly ten years ago, but their stories are coming out now. That professor is M's husband.

While her husband is under fire, M. herself begins to harbor an erotic fantasy about her new colleague at the university, Vladimir, a young father who also writes books. M.'s daughter symbolizes the Woke ideology in the story, I suspect. How significant her role will be is not yet clear to me.

I wanted to read Julia May Jonas's book, but I couldn't get past the confusing beginning and so I sold it secondhand without reading it. I regretted that afterwards, so I'm going to watch the series at my leisure and see what I missed.