Two New Comedies Try to Make Sex on Campus Funny Again

In the series premiere of Netflix’s Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes. “All I want is a life free of complications,” says her unnamed lead. “If I can’t have power, can I at least be free from other people’s drama? Free from their behavior? Free from their needs and desires?”

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It feels appropriate that free appears four times in this monologue, one of the character’s many fourth-wall-shattering asides.