Russian Doll 1 x 1-2 | Full-Length Reaction

This show was so so so good. Gonna be great hearing your thoughts.

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please let the other episodes also be free... 😭

You should totally check out Poker Face, she stars in it. It’s on Peacock. I enjoyed it

Loved the reaction!! Following with you said about perception, when I was a child I used to see this men always seated in my grandmas living room. I'm 24 years old now and only found there was actually no men in there because I asked my family about it. I'm glad I never asked when I was a child, I would have been scared as hell!

Roughly 41:46 Frank, I like the way your mind works.

Fun things that I never noticed until reading it after my third time watching: The drunk guys at the deli are also the coding guys at her job and the EMTs. It's another added interesting layer to a really interesting show! So glad to see you're watching this one and excited to watch it again with you!

I haven’t started this rewatch yet… but if you enjoy it like I did.. Pokerface with Natasha Lyonne was pretty fun as well! I adore her ❣️

damn i really wonder where this is going to go

I've not watched this show before either. Yep, Nadia’s trapped in a pattern that has been repeating by pop culture ever since the movie Groundhog Day first emerged. But in this show it seems I need to prepare myself for countless ways to die, just like in SFU!! I can't help but wonder if her cycle of death and rebirth is inherent in the specific type of video game programming that she does. I did notice that the characters already seem like they’re on a loop from the start because they make loose references to things that haven’t yet been introduced, and they allude to metaphors that haven’t quite stuck. Also seems like there are certain people who can prevent her from dying. I have a lot of questions about this show, one is about the recurring group of actors. They return once more as the medics in the ambulance taking Nadia to the psych ward at Bellevue. Once again, they are seem slightly douchey. Plus they also lead to Nadia’s death, as their reckless driving causes an accident. I'm now wondering if the recurrence of the actors, who don’t return as the same characters, indicate or mean something....especially because the actors almost always precede a death. I would think that Natasha Lyonne’s real-life experience with addiction was helpful in her ability to portray her character in this show. Oh no, another show that will have me thinking way too much at times. So how will she solve this and stop this constant cycle??? Does she indeed have a mental illness?? Hopefully will be fun viewing to find out. Indeed the movie "The Game" with Michael Douglas is awesome and I haven't heard the name George Plimpton in years...wow!

I forgot how good this show is!

Either this lady is some sort of blessed to have survived so long whilst being so fatally accident prone or she has recently been cursed, lmao. I get the feeling it's more symbolic than that but I'm very interested to see where the plot goes.

lol low-key forgot that this would make me feel a kind of way to watch after I fell down the stairs and broke my neck and almost died last year anyway love this show!

it’s so perfect that you’re watching oitnb and parks and rec and then russian doll is created by natasha lyonne and amy poehler 😭

RAAAHHHHH

I love this show- such a warped and brilliant trip! I definitely think Natasha Lyonne’s real-life experience with addiction informed the portrayal of her character in this show. She’s been pretty open about her struggles, even discussing a fairly recent relapse. I think there are other ways in which this show was also very personal for her. I love seeing Greta Lee in this role as her friend/party hostess- such versatility when you compare it to her performance in “Past Lives.” This show is really great at capturing some of the essence of NYC life and makes me nostalgic for when I lived there. ♥️ Fun fact- Amy Poehler is a good friend of Natasha Lyonne and produced “Russian Doll.”

Oh man. This is so fun! I watched this when it first came out, and I remembered the premise, and I remember loving it, but I don't actually really remember anything else. So this is going to be a great time. Also, now I can go back and watch season 2, which I haven't seen!

Good shit. I love her in this role. This is the third time I’m watching this and I’m just now realizing that her ex was Petey from Severance. Anyhoo, about the addiction thing: Natasha co-created this show (with Amy Poehler!), and wrote and directed it too. I looked up how her experience with addiction informed her idea for the show and she explained how she tied the premise to her history with drug abuse and how the death loop was the perfect representation of active addiction. She said that during her years of heavy drug use she felt like she was stuck in a repetitive cycle of self-sabotage and that she was perceiving life through the lens of a dead person. That montage of her wandering around the party getting progressively more faded felt all too familiar to me.

This is such a great series! I haven’t rewatched it since it first came out—looking forward to catching it again with you.