Vladimir Review: Rachel Weisz’s Unerotic Thriller Fakes Its Own Climax H2s: Vladimir’s Lack Of Steaminess Doesn’t Live Up To Its Provocative Poster The Academic Sex Scandal Is Vladimir’s Most Interesting Storyline, But It’s A Missed Opportunity Rachel Weisz’s Unreliable Narrator Is Too Much Tell, Not Enough Show

The series Vladimir, based on Julia May Jonas’s novel and created by Jonas herself, follows an unnamed English professor in her fifties. She finds herself intensely attracted to a new colleague, Vladimir Woodall. This attraction quickly becomes an obsession, and it happens at a particularly difficult time – her husband and co-worker, John Slattery, is facing a hearing regarding allegations of sexual misconduct.


