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Original Content podcast: ‘The Breaker Upperers’ filmmakers know that breaking up is the worst
“The Breaker Upperers” kicks off with an ingenious premise: What if you could pay an agency to take care of your awkward romantic break-ups? And what if that agency was run by two longtime friends who are starting to drift apart? The film was a big hit in New Zealand last year and is now […]
View More Original Content podcast: ‘The Breaker Upperers’ filmmakers know that breaking up is the worst‘Russian Doll’ star Natasha Lyonne shares old email from Nora Ephron discussing idea for the show
Russian Doll is nothing short of phenomenal. But, that kind of TV excellence isn’t achieved overnight. Natasha Lyonne told Stephen Colbert that the show has been seven years in the making.
And, one of the people she discussed the idea with …
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is lethally dull
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and writer-director Dan Gilroy — who worked together on the creepy crime thriller “Nightcrawler” — have reunited for a new Netflix Original film, “Velvet Buzzsaw.” While “Nightcrawler” wasn’t perfect, it was tense and unsettling, filled with eerily beautiful shots of nighttime L.A., plus a career-best performance from Gyllenhaal. It’s hard to […]
View More Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is lethally dullExplaining and unpacking the transcendent ending of ‘Russian Doll’
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…
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View More Explaining and unpacking the transcendent ending of ‘Russian Doll’Natasha Lyonne soars in Netflix’s time-bending and engrossing ‘Russian Doll’
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…
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