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Pop Culture’s Romance Allergy - The Atlantic

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Culture has little interest in love anymore. The consequences could be dire.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 11:19 Those of us who worship at the altar of Rachel Weisz had high hopes for Vladimir , Netflix’s new miniseries starring the British actor as a frustrated English professor who becomes giddily unmoored by a sexual fixation on her new colleague Vladimir (played by Leo Woodall). On-screen, Weisz is our preeminent interpreter of erudite but animalistic desire; Woodall is the most reliably lunkish and sleepy-eyed rogue currently acting. Put them together, and it’s fair to expect—at a bare minimum—fireworks. So why does Vladimir feel so leaden, so performative? Watching

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