Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Some genres never die. Instead, they tell the same stories in different settings into infinity. Following in the footsteps of Dark Matter, Russian Doll, Everything Everywhere All at Once and umpteen episodes of Doctor Who, the seven-part dramedy Slip flings its protagonist, Mae (Zoe Lister-Jones, also the series’ showrunner), through a succession of alternative realities, leaving her scared, baffled and wondering about the roads not taken.Mae is an assistant art curator from Brooklyn who is approaching 40 and feeling stuck in her personal life. Her husband, Elijah (Whitmer Thomas), isn’t a bad guy though he barely gives Mae a second glance in the mornings as they go their separate ways to work. Their conversations mostly revolve around what to eat for dinner and watch on TV. Their life is comfortable, undemanding and, well, just a bit dull.On the day everything goes haywire, Mae is hosting the opening of an exhibition by a Buddhist artist. In Buddhist cosmology, she notes in her speech, there are six realms of existence all inhabited by hungry ghosts in a state of deprivation and longing. “These beings are both literally and figuratively hungry,” Mae explains, for anyone still unsure of the show’s themes.At the after-party she meets a charismatic stranger, Eric (Amar Chadha-Patel), and impulsively spends the night with him. While in the throes of sex, Mae is unexpectedly catapulted into a new reality where she and Eric, who is a famous, rich musician, are married. More hookups follow with Mae entering a different marital dimension every time she has an orgasm. After Eric there is Sandy (Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire), a bar owner with whom she is suddenly co-parent to an atrociously spoilt daughter. The multiverse premise of Slip may be overly familiar, but it is handled here with a pleasing lightness of touch. Lister-Jones is less bothered about the mechanics of alternative realities than using them as a springboard for Mae’s journey of self-discovery; while trying out different lives and partners, she gets to interrogate her early mid-life ennui. It’s also rare to find such a blunt exploration of female sexuality away from the male gaze and underpinned by such larky writing.★★★★☆On ITVX from August 8
