![]() ![]() After finally breaking the cycle of repeating deaths in Season 1, Nadia seems to have basically returned to her normal life, complete with her many vices. ![]() Russian Doll Season 2 starts with Nadia (Lyonne) beginning to deal with another of life’s existential crises, the overwhelming feelings of wanting to go back and change the past. Thankfully, Lyonne and the rest of the creative team decided that they would be the judges of that. Adding a Groundhog Day inspired plot and a whole lot of commentary on life, death, and the ways we get caught in spiraling hells, both physical and mental, the series seemed to have delivered such perfect alchemy that when it ended most critics thought that it shouldn’t come back. The metaphysical meditation on death created by Lyonne along with Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler was the perfect delivery vehicle for the creative, chaotic, compelling, presence that makes Lyonne one of the more captivating working actors today. When the first season of Natasha Lyonne’s Netflix series, Russian Doll, debuted back in 2019 it was an unexpected critical sensation. The following contains spoilers for Russian Doll Season 2, S2E1, “Nowhen” (written and directed by Natasha Lyonne), and S2E2, “Coney Island Baby” (written by Alliso n Silverman & Zakiyyah Alexander and directed by Alex Buono) ![]()
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