‘Slip’ Star, Creator Zoe Lister-Jones Explains How and Why She Wrote ‘Orgasms’ as Portal to the Multiverse (Video)

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Zoe Lister-Jones’ new Roku series “Slip” has taken the fascination with metaverses to a whole new dimension… courtesy of a few Earth-moving orgasms that take her out of this world.

Literally.“Slip” centers on Lister-Jones’ character, Mae Cannon, whose life is “a super banal dream where nothing really happens” and the excitement happens when she is dreaming.

Or is her dream world reality? “You just need to wake up, but then you realize there’s nothing to wake up from because the dream is occurring while you’re awake, sleeping to find meaning and waking to lose it,” she says at the start of the Roku series. “And all you wanna do is sleep to dream of something more.”The series — which Lister-Jones created, wrote, directed and stars in — is both funny and profound, which rarely happens.

She wrote the entire first season during COVID lockdown, as she was struggling with depression and “a sort of sense of stuckness, of restlessness in my own life, and I didn’t know how to navigate it.”“For me, as a writer, every project begins with a sort of existential question/crisis that I’m facing personally, and I think I use writing as a way for me to try to find some answers to the tougher questions that we contend with in life and what we do with a desire for more.