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Apr 19, 2022 · The second season, out April 20, brings us back into main character Nadia’s world. It’s a good place to be. One of the big draws is just how perfectly Natasha Lyonne embodies Nadia. Her giant red curls telegraph her manic energy, her raspy voice denotes her world-weariness. But it’s really Lyonne’s vibe, her cool-girl essence, that ...
Apr 13, 2022 · In season 2 of Netflix’s Russian Doll, due out April 20th, the series reinvents itself as a new kind of existential journey through time, space, and NYC’s subway system.
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Posted: Apr 20, 2022 1:00 pm
Russian Doll: Season 2 premieres Wednesday, April 20 on Netflix.
Russian Doll is back after three years with an appropriately absurdist follow-up to its excellent first run, once again trapping Natasha Lyonne's Nadia in a madcap prison of metaphysical psychotherapy. These seven new episodes don't quite match the majesty of the first season, but this year's surreal odyssey -- ditching the "time loop" for Quantum Leaping -- is still a freakish, fantastical hoot.
Given that Russian Doll's marvelous lightning-in-a-bottle first season could easily stand on its own as a limited series, with a definitive ending (relatively speaking, in Russian Doll terms), it was a risky move to cook up more chaos. Fortunately, Season 2 only gently suffers from the most predictable flaw a sequel story can carry, which is that it's not as good as what came before. That being said, Season 2 is as good as it ever could be, and that's more than enough to provide oodles of awesome temporal trickery and truly transcendental moments of warmth and heart.
Check out our review of Russian Doll: Season 1, from 2019...
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The time-traveling subway isn't a prison the same way Season 1's time loop was. It's a tool, and a lot of fun is had with that. After Nadia discovers that she can return to 2022, she bounces back and forth in order to piece together clues (or to just use the internet) that'll lead her down the right path. And since the present is easily accessible, she's able to wrangle Season 1's Elizabeth Ashley, Greta Lee, Rebecca Henderson, and -- naturally -- Barnett into her whirlwind scheme to correct sins of the past. As Copley's character explains at one point, so perfectly, Nadia's looking to chase down her "Coney Island." That makes sense when he describes it, being the one thing from your past that you feel, if done differently, would have changed everything.
As far as the show's core gimmick, that of Manhattan in '82, the season finds the perfect vibe/balance between reality and cartoon. With some nice needle drops -- Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead" opens the adventure, and acts as a recurring theme (Bauhaus fans will find a few other Easter eggs) -- along with costuming, set dressing, and an overall crime-y, grimy gloss, Nadia's main train destination is a blend of authenticity and cliché. This was a time, a decade, when murder and mayhem was at an all-time high for the city, and would be until the early '90s, so the specific look of those streets has been sort of set in cinematic stone and Russian Doll has a blast with that.
Because Nadia's not trying to figure out how to free herself from a batshit time loop or some other heightened, hilarious temporal trap, but instead using a cosmic loophole to her advantage, Season 2 is simmering in different spices. It also means that the underlying thread shifts more often than in Season 1 as Nadia and Alan's priorities shift now and again due to family secrets, historically relevant twists, and their own changing perspectives. This allows Season 2 to feel special in its own way and escape the shadow of the first season as best it can.
Russian Doll's second season finds a way to keep the feistiness of time trickery alive with a Quantum Leap-style story that, of course, leads to wonderfully tender and meaningful catharsis. We're in gentle golden age of metaphysical/magical adventure for the sake of family therapy (see: Encanto, Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Russian Doll t...
Apr 13, 2022 · Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ Season 2: TV Review Natasha Lyonne's Emmy-winning high-concept comedy trades time loops for time travel, but that's only the beginning of a second season that should ...
Apr 13, 2022 · Netflix. Because of the time travel, Russian Doll Season 2 has an opportunity to bite off more existential themes. Season 1 had Nadia re-examine her relationship with her mother by reliving her ...
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Feb 1, 2019 · This experience is exactly what you’ll feel while watching “ Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne and Leslye Headland’s new Netflix series (with an assist from Amy Poehler), which treats its ...
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Apr 20, 2022 · The title takes on a whole new meaning in the second season of Natasha Lyonne’s mind-bending, Emmy-nominated Russian Doll.In the first series, Nadia (Lyonne) was stuck in a time loop at a ...
