Should you watch Russian Doll?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Russian Doll
Series · 2019
Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.
The sides of Russian Doll
- A woman dying again and again at her own birthday party
- A stranger stuck in the same loop
- A New York subway train into the past
Russian Doll is good for you if…
- you like laughing as Nadia dies once more on her 36th birthday.
- you can't look away from Natasha Lyonne as Nadia, raspy, wry and self-destructive.
- you like a New York that bends in strange ways.
Russian Doll is bad for you if…
- you can't face a story about a mentally ill mother and an old childhood wound.
- you want every rule of the loop explained.
About: death · mothers and daughters · self-destruction
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