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‘My prey, my prize, my Vladimir’: flipping the gender script on predatory professors

Campus tales of power and desire typically produce neat narratives of victimhood: lecherous, middle-aged male professor preys on nubile female student. Vladimir, the Netflix series adapted by Julia May Jonas from her bestselling novel, complicates this gendered phenomenon and its predictable dynamics.

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Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’

As her debut novel becomes a Netflix series starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, the American author talks about comparisons with Lolita, moving on from #MeToo and problematic authors

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir: New Netflix series receives rave reviews from critics

Vladimir, a new Netflix comedy starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Wooddall, is receiving rave reviews from critics. The eight-part series, which is based on Julia May Jonas’s novel of the same name, is about a university professor who becomes obsessed with her younger colleague. The Guardian gave the series five…

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Vladimir review – Rachel Weisz is unswervingly brilliant in a TV show you’ll admire for years to come

This adaptation of the 2022 novel – starring Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery – fits it perfectly to television. It’s a proper show for proper grownups

The Guardian - UK

Stream Vladimir at your own risk — there’s not a messed up, steamy or uncomfortable new Netflix show quite like it

Vladimir is my new Netflix show obsession — and it makes lust, yearning and foolhardy desire more excruciating than ever.

TechRadar

Vladimir review: Rachel Weisz’s sociopathic professor falls for Leo Woodall in ‘post-woke’ drama

3/5 This eight-part adaptation of Julia May Jonas’s bestselling novel is brutally muted by the Netflix aesthetic

The Independent UK

Vladimir: cast, plot and everything we know

Vladimir is a Netflix series adaptation of the Julia May Jonas novel which will star Leo Woodall and Rachel Weisz.

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Vladimir by Julia May Jonas review – a scandalous affair

This clever, engrossing debut about an ageing English literature professor explores female creativity, rage and desire

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas review – slippery sexual politics

This intelligent and knowing debut about a female academic’s dangerous obsession with a younger professor is less risk-taking than it thinks it is

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