When attached to a story about sexually indiscreet academics of fine literature, the name “Vladimir” automatically invokes the author Nabokov. But when attached to a television show about an unnamed, unreliable narrator (Rachel Weisz) directly addressing the camera, another influence comes to the fore: “Fleabag,” in which Phoebe Waller-Bridge elevated breaking the fourth wall into an art form.
That one-woman show turned Emmy magnet is a high bar to set for oneself, and in adapting her own debut novel as a Netflix limited series, creator Julia May Jonas doesn’t clear it. “Vladimir” takes on a host of knotty issues,…
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