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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