Natasha Lyonne – Fusion Nepal

Warning: Major spoilers for Russian Doll: Season 1 lie ahead.

Russian Doll is a freaking phenomenal bit of television. I laughed. I cried. I got nervous about my cat’s whereabouts, called a friend to say I love them, spent hours curling my hair.

What more could a girl ask for? Well… some answers would be nice.

Natasha Lyonne’s heart-wrenching story of a “broken man” and a “lady with a death wish” traversing numerous timelines to solve a metaphysical mystery sucked me in the moment it started—and its many unsolved mysteries have hung with me ever since.

Russian Doll‘s meticulously crafted details create a mystifying universe with quirks that felt, if not entirely novel, fresh and newly perplexing in a been-there-done-that genre. Each new enigma left with me a sprawling flowchart of questions, some of which are still troubling me. Read more…

Time can be a real bitch.

You may have noticed, in 2019, that time feels relative. Monday feels like Friday, January feels like June, weeks feel like decades which pass within seconds. Netflix’s Russian Doll – about a woman who keeps resetting to the same night in her life – isn’t a response to this rubbery reality, but the show is a concise and engrossing study of what makes us alive and it couldn’t be more apt.

Natasha Lyonne stars as Nadia, a woman whose existential dread on her 36th birthday manifests in her swift death via car crash later that night. But as we know from the trailer, Nadia doesn’t die – at least, dying doesn’t end her life. She resets to the same moment in her friend’s bathroom during the birthday party, and continues to live life from this point forward every time something new kills her. Read more…

More about Entertainment, Television, Netflix, Natasha Lyonne, and Russian Doll