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?” It feels appropriate that free appears four times in this monologue, one of the character's many fourth-wall-shattering