- 6 hours ago
Vladimir - Season 1 - Episode 06: Because It Is Bitter And Because It Is My Heart
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:14I'm a beloved professor. I know you feel that way. Have you ever looked at my
00:19evaluations? Let's take a walk. Can we just take a walk? I have always felt the
00:26origin of anger in my vagina, and I'm surprised he did not mention more in
00:30literature. Many students are uncomfortable that you haven't spoken out against you.
00:36Spoken out? You've been seen with him in public. He's my husband. That association is
00:41becoming difficult for the students. What? And the faculty. Who? You make me feel
00:47uncomfortable. In what way? Your behavior has been erratic. Well, you can't just fire
00:52me. There's a process. I have tenure. We are asking you to voluntarily step down
00:57by the end of the week. Well, I won't. But if you don't, if you don't, we can't put you
01:00on
01:00administrative leave till the end of the year, starting next week. We'd prefer it not
01:04come to that. I mean, who would take over my classes? We're in the middle of a
01:06semester. Cynthia is well-versed in your subject matter. This is about the file.
01:12What file? This is not about the file, but... But what? It will be better for you if you
01:16voluntarily step down. Why? Because if we put you on administrative leave, we will have
01:21to formalize the complaints. Really? Yes. Well, if you do that, David, I will
01:27absolutely never even conceptualize fucking you ever again. What? That is
01:34perfectly fine. It is? Yes. I have no interest in doing that. You don't? No. Well, thank you, David.
01:47Thanks a whole fucking lot. I'm so... What? I... I don't know. She's erratic.
02:07You've spoken out? Of course I could have spoken out. Excuse me, ma'am. Smoking is
02:12prohibited on campus. You don't me understand? I could have been a feminist hero if I wanted
02:17to be. Since when? Three years. I could have spoken out all over campus. Big swaths of adoring,
02:24dewy young people just drooling over me as I lusciously spoke out. Ma'am? But it is against
02:31my principles. I do not have to answer for my husband's behavior. Are you going to put
02:36your cigarette out? I mean, I am my own person. I have done nothing wrong. May I see your ID?
02:42Oh, well, thank you for the compliment, but I'm not a student. I'm a professor. Yeah, I figured.
02:47Are you resisting? Oh, okay. Um, all right. I put it out. Okay? Huh. Now, may I find a trash
02:52can?
02:53Because I don't litter. I need your ID. Why? What are you going to do? Suspend me from
02:58teaching? No, ma'am. I'm writing you a summons. What?
03:17Come in. Hey there. Oh, hi. Is this a bad time? Uh, sorry. Sorry. You heard. Heard what? Oh, nothing.
03:31No. Nothing. You just
03:33came to speak to me. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I was on my way to class, and I had to
03:42ask you, have you ever read
03:43Susie Boyd? Loved and Missed? Oh, my God. Yes, I just started that book. I haven't encountered a voice
03:49like hers in a very long time. You know, when I read it, I just kept thinking, how could it
03:54be so
03:54emotional, so funny, and so good all at once? Yes, exactly. It's the best book I've read in a while.
04:01Oh, of course he thinks it's better than mine. It is better than mine. I believe in admiration,
04:06generosity, being a fan. That and yours. What? That and yours. I bet you say that to all the writers.
04:20Are you okay? What? Well, you just seem, I don't know. You look a little forlorn. Oh, God. I thought
04:32I was hiding it so well. You can't hide anything. No? You're translucent. It's beautiful.
04:43Oh. Can I have a more home around to you? Of course. Thank you. Oh, I appreciate the kindness.
05:04I'll take you away. Professor Blavinsky? Oh. I'll see you later. Yeah. I mean, they can't just ordain
05:19that I go on administrative leave. Hey, I'm as angry as you are, but look at it as an opportunity.
05:24You'll still get paid. Not right. No? Brown suit, brown tie?
05:30Give me a pair of aviators, keep me 500 feet from a playground?
05:33Ugh, don't joke like that. I have to joke. It's the only thing I can do from keeping me
05:38losing my fucking mind. They're not allowed to keep me from my position when I did nothing wrong.
05:43Well, handle it after the hearing. No, no. I'm not going to sit here and take it like a,
05:46like a lump. Okay.
05:54What's this Lila's writing? I have scans. Don't think you can burn it.
06:00Hmm? May I take it?
06:05Alexis is going to be here in an hour. She is?
06:08We're bringing in the big guns. Are you and Alexis back together?
06:12Oh, we were never really broken up.
06:15Well, do you think you might have told me that she was coming? I mean, I'm really not in the
06:18mood for
06:18entertaining right now. Well, I think one of the reasons you and Alexis never click is because
06:23you feel like you have to put on this big show like some 1950s housewife whenever she comes. You
06:27don't have to entertain. What do you think? Can you try a different tie? I want to dress like
06:33myself. What are you wearing? I'm not a 1950s housewife. Sorry. What are you wearing? I don't
06:40know. Mom, optics are important. If the complaints get dismissed, I bet a lot of your problems go
06:46away. What if they don't get dismissed? We sell the house, move to Mexico, and everyone can fuck
06:51off. Everyone else can fuck off. I'm needed here. Not if you're not teaching. I'm going to be teaching,
07:16John. I need to talk to somebody about this. Mom, no, don't do anything. Please. Please.
07:25Every year, the president of the college holds an event for business school alumni.
07:32Lynn likes to say that they are properly endowed.
07:51Lynn. Hi. What are you doing here? This event is for business majors, real people who help the
07:59college in a real way. Did you hear about the administrative leave? I can't talk about that
08:04right now. Well, can't you ask Steve to intervene? No. Do you think it's right that I get punished for
08:10John's actions? Steve has to look out for the college in general. Lynn, this is your chance to
08:16take a stand. You have a PhD in medieval philosophy, and yet all you do is entertain like some 1950s
08:24housewife. Because the only thing that's ever really mattered to you in your whole life is being
08:27approved of by men. Well, if I'm such a bone job, then why are you asking for my help?
08:34Lynn? I would die.
08:39Ma'am? No, Lynn said I could use her bathroom.
09:04I'm of a mind that if you come across a controlled substance, you should always take at least one.
09:12For the apocalypse.
09:25Sid made this for me when she was 10.
09:41What's up?
09:45Nothing.
10:09Run away with me.
10:20Jaclyn.
10:21I can't believe it.
10:21I can't believe it.
10:25What am I doing?
10:30I can't believe it.
11:18Baby, have you ever held in sight before?
11:21These are beautifully chopped peppers.
11:23Good morning.
11:23Good morning.
11:24Good morning, Sydney.
11:26Good morning.
11:27Did anyone feed you last night?
11:30Oh, yeah.
11:31Yeah.
11:31We ordered in.
11:32I know I just kind of sprang.
11:34The sprang sprung.
11:35No, you'd say either.
11:38Visit on you and my mother would have been furious.
11:42No, no.
11:42Well, I mean, thank you for saying that, but no.
11:45Baby, these have to be tiny.
11:46That's what I'm doing.
11:48No, small.
11:48I hear you've come to save us.
11:50I'm just offering some advice and some moral support.
11:55Did you hear they asked me to step down from my tenure at the position?
12:00Yes.
12:01And she told me to do nothing until after the hearing.
12:05That's good.
12:06She's very right.
12:08You should listen to your daughter.
12:10She's a very good lawyer.
12:12And don't worry.
12:13We won't be in your hair too much longer.
12:14Nobody's in my hair.
12:15We're going to head back to the city right after the hearing wraps up.
12:18Together?
12:19Yes.
12:20Are you moving back in with her?
12:22Why are you saying her like that?
12:23I just don't think you've proven that you're ready for the kind of relationship that she's
12:26been asking for.
12:27Doctor Lord, Alexis is not standing here.
12:29It's fine.
12:29I think Syd knows what she's ready for.
12:31Listen, I know how it feels to be a 35-year-old woman.
12:35What?
12:35But do you really think that she's ready to be a co-parent?
12:38I mean, she can barely look after herself.
12:41Babe, what did you tell her?
12:42I...
12:43I...
12:43No.
12:44I told her we were maybe getting ready to start the process.
12:46Mom, you have to stop.
12:47Babe, that's our business.
12:48You're going to be counting your eggs?
12:50She hasn't even got a job.
12:52I have five interviews lined up.
12:55In the city?
12:56Yes.
12:57That's where my life is.
12:58You haven't been telling me anything.
13:00Because I don't need to ask for your permission for everything I do.
13:03Like, I'm a fully grown adult.
13:04Well, you do not behave like one.
13:06Why are you being so mean?
13:07You need to speak to your daughter more respectfully.
13:10Oh, no thank you.
13:11Uh-uh-uh.
13:11Guys, what's going on?
13:12Don't call me guys.
13:14I'm her mother.
13:15Where were you last night?
13:16Seeing a friend.
13:17You don't want me to be an adult.
13:19You want me to depend on you so you can feel like you still matter.
13:25You're the one who's mean.
13:41Why are you so agitated?
13:43I don't want to talk about it.
13:44I wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for you.
13:47What position?
13:49They are asking me to give up my career.
13:52Wow.
13:53You are gone.
13:54You know what?
13:54You're right.
13:55Let's not talk about it.
13:55No, let's not.
13:56Yeah.
13:57Jesus.
13:58You know, first of all, you could have spoken out against me or whatever you wanted and
14:03you chose not to.
14:04Excuse me?
14:05You have free will.
14:06Make your own choices.
14:07I-I-I can't believe that.
14:09Second of all, we only came to an agreement because of you.
14:11Oh.
14:11You're the one who let the door open for all this shit to happen.
14:14You mean so have I been more of a strict little wife than-
14:17I'm saying it was your idea.
14:19No, no.
14:19We came to this agreement together.
14:21We did not want a conventional marriage.
14:23We were being good, anti-establishment radicals.
14:26We didn't want to accept the status quo.
14:28Maybe that's what you wanted.
14:29I'm gone.
14:31You're gone.
14:32No, that is the most delusional thing I've ever heard in my life.
14:35You didn't want to fuck around.
14:37You were fucking around before we came to the agreement.
14:40That's why I suggested the fucking agreement in the first fucking place.
14:43Listen.
14:44I am not moving to Mexico.
14:49You've always been the most important person in my life.
14:53What a lie.
14:54No, I'm serious.
14:55John.
14:56I'm serious and I'm not conflicted with myself.
14:59I'm with you because I want to be with you.
15:03I wish you could say the same.
15:07Not Fuck Ross.
15:09You're so mean…
15:09Neapulative mother fucker.
15:13Can you go and relax me?
15:30Yes.
15:31You're a ghost OK We'reieting guy.
15:34This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with an NP.
16:08I can't have my job. And I can't have my daughter. And I can't have the man I love. At
16:16least I can do something decent.
16:20Hey! Are you kidding me? More space!
16:24I want to tell you something. No, we're past that. Back up.
16:27Honey, I just want to tell you that I thought that this story was really rather brilliant.
16:31What is that? It's from your substack. The one you're going to use to defame me.
16:36I'm serious, Lila. It really touched me. There's an honesty there that I admire. Very, very good. I mean it.
16:46I'm not going to drop out of the case. No, that's not why I'm saying this.
16:50And you kept me from the scholarship. I don't think I did.
16:53You promised I would get it. No, I didn't. You told me I was the strongest candidate.
16:57Well, you were, but then you got cocky and lazy and you didn't put enough work into your application.
17:02I'm not lazy. Well, you can be. The work was not strong enough and you didn't try hard enough.
17:09But listen to me, Lila. I mean, who fucking cares? You know those people who are so good at things
17:15early on?
17:16Well, they usually turn into boring people whose biggest accomplishments are behind them by the time they're 25.
17:22You have your whole life in front of you. You didn't have to be great in high school or college
17:30or in your 20s.
17:31You can make mistakes. You can fuck a professor. Life is not about nailing it when you're young.
17:37It's about clinging to the fucking rock face no matter who or what tries to push you off.
17:44Don't make yourself irrelevant before you're done living your life.
17:47You will be irrelevant soon enough. Believe me.
17:59Okay, guys. Okay. Okay, folks. Folks, folks, I appreciate your dedication to this committee, but how much time do we
18:05want to waste on this, okay?
18:06The mother called the dean. She keeps emailing me. He wants us to just give the kid honor, so let's
18:11just give it to her.
18:12He wasn't even close to that. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
18:19I have taken your recommendation into consideration. I plan to turn my next lecture into a public forum.
18:27I'll answer all student questions, including those about my marriage, tomorrow at 3.
18:34I don't know if that's best for the students.
18:37Well, of course you don't, Lawrence, because you're my frenemy.
18:40I'm not that.
18:43Sweetie, I agree with Flo. This kind of thing is unpredictable.
18:45They want me to speak out, so I'm speaking out.
18:49What outcome do you expect?
18:50They'll see I'm an open book, and they will understand.
18:54Sorry. I don't think the students are in the right place to talk to teachers about this kind of stuff
18:59right now.
19:00I know you're coming from a good place, but it's generational.
19:02They just think about these things in a really different way.
19:06Well, I can offer up my perspective.
19:08I think it's a good idea. I do. I think the students want us to be real with them. That's
19:13what I've found.
19:15What?
19:16They want you to be real.
19:19All of us?
19:20No. They want a literary celebrity with a cool jacket to be real with them.
19:24Not a middle-aged career professor.
19:27We were all you once. We know what changes.
19:34It's a little harsh, David.
19:36Well, I am going to be holding this warm whether you like it or not.
19:40And you are all invited.
19:42I have a dermatologist appointment.
19:44Very good.
20:09You will all have to forgive me for not speaking up sooner about the case against my husband.
20:14It was difficult for me to know how best to proceed.
20:18I wanted to provide you with the opportunity to write questions anonymously.
20:23So, thank you very much for these.
20:26But, if anyone has the urge to speak up directly, then I aim to be in a listening position.
20:38First question is, do you agree that what your husband did was wrong?
20:45Well, you have to understand that I come from a very different generation.
20:49When I was growing up, I was taught that my virginity was the most important thing about me.
20:55It was more important than my brain or my soul.
20:59We stigmatize sex by telling women that it's going to hurt them.
21:04These were consensual relationships.
21:06So, if I say that John was wrong, I'm saying that these women were hurt by the act of having
21:13consensual sex.
21:14And I am not comfortable with that.
21:24The next question is, did you know about the affairs?
21:32Only vaguely.
21:35But, in full disclosure, we had a marital agreement.
21:41What do you mean agreement?
21:43Do you mean an open marriage?
21:47Well, you could call it that.
21:49Like polyamory?
21:54Well, you could think of it as polyamory.
21:57We didn't, but you could.
22:05Yes, Aaron.
22:07What's your take on compersion?
22:08What is that?
22:10Like, the well-being you feel when your partner takes pleasure in another relationship?
22:15Oh, I don't feel that.
22:19How do you deal with jealousy?
22:22Jealousy?
22:24Jealousy can be an opportunity.
22:27Sorry, your husband's relationships involve power imbalances.
22:31Not relationships between consenting adults on equal footing.
22:35But who is ever on an equal footing?
22:38Aren't you adults?
22:39Aren't you capable of making your own decisions?
22:44I know it sounds like an old shibboleth, but it really was a different time.
22:49I mean, I would argue that in the past love affairs with all different kinds of people,
22:55some who lifted you up, some who left you a little bruised,
22:58I mean, emotionally, of course, were considered within reason really kind of fun.
23:06So a student suffering because of a teacher is fun?
23:09That's not what she's saying.
23:10Then what is she saying?
23:30I was looking for my keys.
23:32I had my forearm today.
23:36And?
23:38I don't know.
23:40You'll be fine.
23:41One foot in front of the other.
23:44Where are you going?
23:46Our friend.
23:47Who is this friend?
23:49You've been out every night this week.
23:52Nobody.
23:55It's helping.
24:01What's helping?
24:19I don't know.
24:25But I didn't know how much of a teacher is playing.
24:27You're miscellaneous.
24:27You're not my father.
24:27I'm a lucky person.
24:27You know how to do that.
24:28You can't do it.
24:31I can't do it.
24:54Inspiring.
25:21Hey.
25:22Hello.
25:23Morning.
25:26Oh, this way.
25:30Oh.
25:31I didn't realize this would be a group endeavor.
25:35On a Saturday, no less.
25:37We thought it might be better to meet, not on campus.
25:40Okay.
25:46Want a donut?
25:47Maple glazed?
25:49No.
25:50Okay, then let's just get to it since this is profoundly fucking awkward.
25:56We are happy to say we are not putting you on administrative leave.
26:00Oh.
26:03Wonderful.
26:04That is great.
26:06But the faculty has decided that you will be supervised.
26:12What do you mean by supervised?
26:14Your classes will be monitored.
26:16Monitored by whom?
26:18I'll take women in American fiction.
26:20Okay.
26:21And I'll take your seminar.
26:22And do what with it?
26:24We'll write up notes.
26:25It's administrative.
26:28It's accountability.
26:30And then we'll meet bi-weekly to review.
26:34Review what?
26:35To make sure that you are appropriately in line with our departmental goals.
26:39So you are going to be advising me as to whether or not my instruction is in line with your
26:45departmental goals in a bi-weekly meeting?
26:49It's a formality.
26:51It's a safety issue.
26:51It's a safety issue.
26:52We want to make sure our students feel safe.
26:54Some students requested that you be removed.
26:57Some advocated that you stay.
26:59Okay, so we feel that this is a compromise.
27:02To placate them.
27:04Yeah.
27:06They're in charge.
27:15Well, I appreciate the update.
27:20May I ask that this decision, please not leave this room?
27:30Sure.
27:37Don't.
28:02It's the big day.
28:03Yeah, it is.
28:04How are you feeling?
28:05Good.
28:07Well, Alexis and Sid and I are going to go get breakfast and, I don't know, talk over the bullshit
28:13strategy.
28:14Mm-hmm.
28:15If you wanted to come or you can just meet us there.
28:17I'll meet you there.
28:22I do want you there.
28:23I know.
28:24I'm coming.
28:26You sure?
28:28John, I mean, this hearing is the only way out of this whole mess for you and for me.
28:32I have my own reasons to be there.
28:34Okay.
28:35Cynthia coming?
28:38Cynthia coming?
28:39Which one's Cynthia?
28:42Cynthia?
29:31I'm so glad you changed your mind.
29:35Are you ready?
29:36You bet.
29:38My love.
29:43I'm in love again.
29:46When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again.
29:51I'm in trouble because you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking ladies' man.
29:57And your love, your love in me.
30:01I'm in love, I'm in love.
30:03I'm not like your love, your freedom.
30:13I'm in love.
30:28I'm in love.
30:32Too fast
30:34It's gonna be open for the future
31:09It's gonna be open for you
31:39It's gonna be open for you
32:10It's gonna be open for you
32:18It's gonna be open for you
32:18It's gonna be open for you
32:21It's gonna be open for you
32:43You
Comments