Slip is Zoe Lister-Jones all the way. She wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy/fantasy/drama series. I thought it was excellent overall, and her performance as a woman slipping through various universes was outstanding.

Slip takes an interesting concept about a woman searching for her true self and makes it into a fantasy about her waking up in different realities. It’s fast, funny, heartfelt, and touching.

Mae (Zoe Lister-Jones) is married to Elijah (Whitmer Thomas). She’s a little bored with her daily routine. She and her long-time best friend Gina (Tymika Tafari) are museum curators. Elijah is a writer, not a very successful one, and Mae and Elijah seldom have sex.

One night she cheats on Elijah and has sex with a famous musician named Eric (Amar Chadha-Patel). When she wakes up in the morning she’s married to Eric and Elijah is nowhere to be found. She’s in a completely different world.

There’s a lot of sex and nudity in the series. But it’s necessary. Every time Mae has sex and an orgasm, she wakes up married to whoever she was with. She finds herself married to a woman with a child and to a rich Wall Street jerk. Eventually she finds Elijah again, but he’s different and she’s afraid to have sex with him because of what might change.

Gina is the only constant in every version of the multiverse Mae finds herself in. Gina sticks as her best friend. Even Gina gets confused by Mae’s behavior and Mae doesn’t explain her situation very well. Mae delivers several well written monologues but they don’t offer much clarity to the literal minded people she’s with. Plus, she wastes her remarks on people like her barista and some teens with weed.

She runs into the same people again and again in every universe, but they are completely different and none of them know who she is. She talks to a Buddhist monk (Nicco Lorenzo Garcia) who not only believes her story about switching realities, but counsels her in a way that finally sets her on the right path. Mae’s final monologue is a long talk with herself that turns out to be healing.

Everything about this series was a tour de force for Zoe Lister-Jones. The writing, the directing, and the outstanding performance in every scene of the series was truly impressive.

Slip came out in 2023 and was an original for the Roku Channel. Now it’s on Peacock.