{"id":330311,"date":"2026-03-05T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:18:09","slug":"vladimir-review-theres-lots-to-enjoy-in-sharon-horgans-horny-new-netflix-comedy-before-it-goes-totally-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330311\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vladimir\u2019 review: There\u2019s lots to enjoy in Sharon Horgan\u2019s horny new Netflix comedy \u2013 before it goes totally off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">An excellent performance from Rachel Weisz can\u2019t save this miniseries from losing the plot in the final episodes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Discontented university professor M (Rachel Weisz) fantasises about having an affair with her hunky new colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall). Photo: Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/till_01_16_59_15_R2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Discontented university professor M (Rachel Weisz) fantasises about having an affair with her hunky new colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall). Photo: Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s never been a shortage on screen of stories about men going through a midlife crisis, whether it\u2019s the knockabout comedy of City Slickers or the improvised existential meanderings of John Cassavetes\u2019 Husbands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But stories of dissatisfied women reaching midlife and wondering what it\u2019s all been for? Not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An excellent performance from Rachel Weisz can\u2019t save this miniseries from losing the plot in the final episodes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,1868,9617],"class_list":["post-330311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}