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97% Avg. Tomatometer 166 Reviews 78% Avg. Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne stars in this comedy-drama series as Nadia, a young woman who is on a journey to be...
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Apr 13, 2022 · Russian Doll season 2 review: a new train of thought and new levels - The Verge. Entertainment. Russian Doll levels up in season 2 by catching a new existential train of thought. The ‘M’...
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By Matt Fowler
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.
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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 19, 2022 · TV/Streaming. Russian Doll Keeps Asking the Big Questions Through Its Sophomore Slump. Cristina Escobar April 19, 2022. Tweet. When the first season of Netflix's " Russian Doll " premiered in 2019, it took over my imagination for weeks. Its aesthetic was so specific and fresh, from the soundtrack to the makeup to the lighting.
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