Zoe Lister-Jones has the elevator pitch for "Slip," the new Roku series that she created, wrote, directed and stars in, down pat. As she told me on "Salon Talks" that her character Mae is a bored wife who discovers one errant evening that "through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse." Adultery never had consequences quite like this.
For Lister-Jones, known best to television viewers for her comedic roles on "New Girl" and "Life in Pieces," using a "sort of sci-fi lens" was a means to explore female sexuality in a more realistic way. As Mae "slips" from partner to partner and reality to reality, she has to uncover what desire truly really means to her. "I was interested in centering a woman's pleasure in a way that was integral to the narrative," she said," adding that the inspiration for the show also arose from "a sexual awakening in my 30s."
