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Apr 20, 2022 · A recap of Netflix’s Russian Doll, season two, episode three, ‘Brain Drain.’ The whole Nadia-Nora sharing-a-body thing has a tinge of David Cronenberg body horror in this nail-bitter of an ...
- Danette Chavez
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Apr 20, 2022 · Expect the downright bizarre with some inventive imagery. This recap of Netflix’s Russian Doll season 2, episode 3, “Brain Drain,” does not contain any significant spoilers. Access the archive of recaps, reviews, and news for Russian Doll. Episode two ended with Nadia losing the bag containing all those precious gold coins she’d worked ...
- Adam Lock
May 4, 2022 · Natasha explained Season 2's central theme with The Hollywood Reporter. She said, "The deeper layer of this kind of Russian Doll metaphor is that there isn't a shortcut around the mountain.”. She explained, “You must go through the mountain; you must climb up and back down the other side.”. Source: Netflix.
- Katherine Stinson
Apr 20, 2022 · Brain Drain: Directed by Natasha Lyonne. With Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee, Chloë Sevigny. Nadia learns an intriguing fact about the family fortune that sends her on a quest for clues - and her situation takes a bizarre new turn.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Natasha Lyonne
- 2022-04-20
- So, Nadia Stole Her Infant Self and Brought Her Back to 2022. That's Bad, Right?
- Does Nadia Take Her Infant Self Back to 1982?
- What Happens to Alan?
- What Happens to Nadia?
- What's The Deal with horse?
- What Actually Closes The Time Loops?
- Are Nadia and Alan Dead?
Back in 1982, while inside her mother Nora's body, Nadia's just given birth to herself. Knowing what a rough childhood she had, she decides that baby Nadia deserves a better mother -- herself. After getting off the train with her baby self in 2022, time starts to get pretty wacky. Nadia experiences a strange episode after rushing to the hospital to...
Finally convinced the baby has to go back to Nora in 1982, Alan and Nadia try to make their way back to the train with baby Nadia. There are more signs of the collapse of time. When they get to the station, the train doesn't show up, and they go down the tracks, eventually finding a train car, but not the right train. When they get on, they find Ma...
Alan finds an industrial-looking door and walks through it. He finds an older version of his grandmother, Agnes, who is now an MTA worker. It turns out Agnes was the MTA worker who helped Nadia/Nora when she fell asleep on the subway, which seems to underline that Nadia and Alan are connected, even if it's not clear how. He asks her what happened t...
Meanwhile, back in the flooded hall, Nadia (holding her infant self) finds the leather bag with her family's lost gold coins. She fumbles with it and the baby and it sinks. She finds a similar door to the one Alan found, and goes through it. She finds a subway car with her mother sitting by herself. Her mother asks, if Nadia could choose her mother...
One minor recurring character is a homeless man named Horse. In season 1, Nadia thought he had something to do with the time loop, but that turned out to be a dead end. Fan theories have sprung up that perhaps Horse is involved, because of how he tends to turn up at odd moments. Elite Daily speculates that he's also a time traveler. One Redditor pu...
Both Nadia and Alan are once again seemingly being taught some kind of lesson about grief and letting go of the past. Early on, Nora's ex-boyfriend Chez explains to Nadia the concept of what he calls a Coney Island, or a pivotal moment that people get stuck on, thinking that if it had played out differently, maybe life would have turned out better....
Maybe? Who's to say? Some Redditors don't seem convincedthere's a concrete answer to this question. Since both their adventures into time chaos started with their deaths, perhaps what we're watching is some kind of purgatorial journey, where they work through their trauma, grief and the like on the way to something else.
The notes next to the mirror in Nora's bathroom are likely a reference to Reb Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, who said: "One should have two pockets: in one there should be written 'the world was created for me', and in the other 'I am but dust and ashes'."
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Russian Doll is an American comedy-drama television series, created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler, that premiered on Netflix on February 1, 2019. The series follows Nadia Vulvokov (Lyonne), a game developer who repeatedly dies and relives the same night in an ongoing time loop and tries to solve it, leading to her finding Alan Zaveri (Charlie Barnett) in the same situation.
