11/03/2026
Like “Lolita,” the new Netflix campus comedy “Vladimir” takes its title from the object of its protagonist’s delusional obsession. The series’ Vladimir, played by Leo Woodall, is a rising literary star and a young father who’s just arrived at a sleepy upstate college, where he and his wife are set to teach. Rachel Weisz stars as his new colleague M, a professor whose lust for her younger co-worker renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes. The show—adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by its author, Julia May Jonas—gets off to an unpromising start but proves “strangely compelling,” Inkoo Kang writes. “Even when we think we know where the series is going, it remains as slippery as its unreliable narrator, difficult to nail down in both genre and intent.” Read her full review: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PJMjQP
