Time is fun. Sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it goes slow, and sometimes it seems to repeat itself every time you fall down the stairs. I'm talking, of course, about the hit Netflix show Russian Doll - Time Travel Through Modern New York, where cynical video game designer Nadia Vulvokov (played so effectively by Orange is New Black Lyonne's Natasha) seems doomed to repeat the same day. and again every time she dies. Russian Doll hadn't been in the news for a while. After launching in 2019 to great fanfare and a confirmed second season soon after, it's unclear when more episodes of Russian Doll will hit our screens. It's a shame, given how eagerly fans of the show are looking forward to Nadia's return, but it's fitting that the first season is still out, waiting to be revived. I am of the opinion that Russian Doll has never felt more relevant than now, at a time when our lives lack variation, and most of us are condemned to look at the same walls, ceilings and environments every day.
Method in madness
The time travel premise used in Russian Doll was first explained in Groundhog Day 1993, where a nihilistic reporter is forced to relive the same day in a sleepy American city until he begins to enjoy and see the joy of their banal encounters and their miniature. dramas. However, it takes Russian Doll to take this premise to a new level. It follows a game designer stuck in a time loop that doesn't reset at dawn instead returning to a checkpoint every time he dies, and he dies. He will see Nadia fall down the stairs of her apartment building, get hit by a car or bus, or even freeze in the cold as she pushes the limits of her quantum containment to new places.