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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Vladimir.
There’s nothing like a big ol’ juicy cliffhanger to get people talking about the ending of a TV show. And that’s exactly what Netflix delivers in the finale of its new limited series Vladimir, now streaming.
Based on the acclaimed 2022 novel by Julia May Jonas, who served as creator, executive producer, and writer for the series, Vladimir centers on a 50-something college English professor (played by Rachel Weisz) who becomes obsessed with her department’s hot new hire: the handsome and celebrated young novelist Vladimir Vladinski (Leo Woodall). The title Vladimir is widely considered to be a reference to Loilta author Vladimir Nabokov, a theory Jonas all but confirmed in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “It’s a nod to novels that name themselves after the young woman who the man is obsessed with,” she said. “This is the subject of fixation that we’re going to be talking about, and I wanted to flip the script and have it be coming from a woman’s perspective.”
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Our unnamed protagonist’s descent into her all-consuming infatuation coincides with a Title IX investigation and public scandal surrounding her husband and recently suspended department chair, John (John Slattery), who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a number of former students. While the protagonist and John have an open marriage and he believes the affairs, which happened at least a decade ago, were consensual, the students are now claiming he took advantage of them.
The protagonist, for her part, feels the students were willing participants and finds their accusations tiresome, insisting the modern outcry over power imbalances is overblown. At the same time, she is frustrated her husband’s behavior is negatively affecting her own standing at the college and reputation on campus. As John’s disciplinary hearing draws ever closer, the protagonist increasingly chafes at his attempts to…
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