An excellent performance from Rachel Weisz can’t save this miniseries from losing the plot in the final episodes
Discontented university professor M (Rachel Weisz) fantasises about having an affair with her hunky new colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall). Photo: Netflix
There’s never been a shortage on screen of stories about men going through a midlife crisis, whether it’s the knockabout comedy of City Slickers or the improvised existential meanderings of John Cassavetes’ Husbands.
But stories of dissatisfied women reaching midlife and wondering what it’s all been for? Not so much.