Vladimir on Netflix

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the male lead really meant to be someone people are lusting after? But why? He seems so boring. Like a fratty white boy. You would think a literature professor would go after someone a bit more swarthy and exotic. His wife seemed a lot more interesting, also he didn’t seem particularly Slavic. In my mind ai was picturing a young Baryshnikov.

Also I was curious as to what fictional college this was meant to be taking place at and the author was a professor at Skidmore - in case you are wondering.

Thanks, I was curious. The daughter drives to see a friend at Cornell, so I figured it was something like that.

[Anonymous]

The daughter looks as old as older than the mom! Weird casting in that regard.

[Anonymous]

I started it then immediately started googling how old Rachel Weisz was. I thought her plastic surgery looked bad and obvious. The cheek implants in particular looked very fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I started it then immediately started googling how old Rachel Weisz was. I thought her plastic surgery looked bad and obvious. The cheek implants in particular looked very fake.

Doesn’t she famously hate and refuse all plastic surgery? I think she looks great, I just think they shouldn’t have cast an actor as the daughter who looks the same age (and to be be fair older than your average early 20 something.)

[Anonymous]

I didn’t care for it. It was very weird. And Rachel Weisz looks good for 56 but she definitely looks older now. I don’t really see a young hot male like Vlad falling for her. When they finally had sex she acted very strange in the bedroom and made weird facial expressions, almost like she was in pain. It was not sexy at all.

The guy who played Vlad was in White Lotus Season 2. He had a heavy British accent then. I wonder if both Rachel and Vlad were disguising their scdebta for the roles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t care for it. It was very weird. And Rachel Weisz looks good for 56 but she definitely looks older now. I don’t really see a young hot male like Vlad falling for her. When they finally had sex she acted very strange in the bedroom and made weird facial expressions, almost like she was in pain. It was not sexy at all.

The guy who played Vlad was in White Lotus Season 2. He had a heavy British accent then. I wonder if both Rachel and Vlad were disguising their scdebta for the roles.

This should say accents

[Anonymous]

I don’t think he is supposed to be Slavic.
I know a lot of Hispanics with Slavic names and I can imagine pretty much any ethnic origin person having a name Vladimir for whatever reason. Maybe his parents were weird namers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think he is supposed to be Slavic.
I know a lot of Hispanics with Slavic names and I can imagine pretty much any ethnic origin person having a name Vladimir for whatever reason. Maybe his parents were weird namers.

His parents are Russian, it’s stated at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t care for it. It was very weird. And Rachel Weisz looks good for 56 but she definitely looks older now. I don’t really see a young hot male like Vlad falling for her. When they finally had sex she acted very strange in the bedroom and made weird facial expressions, almost like she was in pain. It was not sexy at all.

The guy who played Vlad was in White Lotus Season 2. He had a heavy British accent then. I wonder if both Rachel and Vlad were disguising their scdebta for the roles.

Funny, to me she is MUCH hotter than he is. He has cabbage patch face and droopy eyes. And I don't think she has had obvious work at all. Her cheeks were always big. If anything I think she had a lower face and neck lift but not injectables.

[Anonymous]

She's had a bunch of work done. She's gained volume in her upper cheeks as she's aged. There is no woman (or man) in history that has had that happen naturally. I would say she's had a lower facelift and neck lift too. If you look she has a cleaner jawline now than she did 10 yrs ago.

[Anonymous]

So I was curious so I went and got the novel, which is actually pretty great. The idea is that she's playing with all the tropes you find in classic literature where the man falls for a younger ingenue. I was the one who said Vlad seemed kind of boring and dull in the movie -- but what you become aware of in the novel is that most of the fantasy takes place in her mind, and just like when you have an older colleague who goes on and on about his brilliant twenty something girlfriend who is wise beyond her years, it's pretty obvious that she's projecting. She seems what she wants to see. Honestly, in the novel she comes a bit more unhinged and stalkerish, going to visit the former girlfriend who works in the bakery, etc, stealing the files. But it's very Nabokovian, which is probably why she named it Vladimir and made him Russian, etc. There are overtones of Lolita and nabokov also slept with his students (taught at Wellesley for awhile) and wrote academic novels about college campuses. The novel is much more explicitly satirical, with the caricature of the politically correct college professor who has an open marriage and gay daughter, etc. etc. etc. Anyway, some of the choices in the TV series made more sense to me once I read the novel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I was curious so I went and got the novel, which is actually pretty great. The idea is that she's playing with all the tropes you find in classic literature where the man falls for a younger ingenue. I was the one who said Vlad seemed kind of boring and dull in the movie -- but what you become aware of in the novel is that most of the fantasy takes place in her mind, and just like when you have an older colleague who goes on and on about his brilliant twenty something girlfriend who is wise beyond her years, it's pretty obvious that she's projecting. She seems what she wants to see. Honestly, in the novel she comes a bit more unhinged and stalkerish, going to visit the former girlfriend who works in the bakery, etc, stealing the files. But it's very Nabokovian, which is probably why she named it Vladimir and made him Russian, etc. There are overtones of Lolita and nabokov also slept with his students (taught at Wellesley for awhile) and wrote academic novels about college campuses. The novel is much more explicitly satirical, with the caricature of the politically correct college professor who has an open marriage and gay daughter, etc. etc. etc. Anyway, some of the choices in the TV series made more sense to me once I read the novel.

I’m only halfway through the series (I’m reading bc I was curious whether to push through to the end - I feel like I can see where this is heading so not worried about spoilers) and I think the show does a pretty clear job of showing the themes and the satire that are in the novel (I haven’t read it, I mean based on your description of it).

[Anonymous]

Apparently the series was filmed in Canada but it's supposed to be set in NY.

[Anonymous]

Only 2 episodes in, but I'm enjoying it. It's quirky, sarcastic and sprightly and has short episodes --which I need after dragging through the John & Carolyn slogfest.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t like the last two episodes and especially the ending. Left a yuck and question mark.