Explaining and unpacking the transcendent ending of ‘Russian Doll’

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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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