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- Netflix
- Apr 20, 2022
- Netflix
- Apr 20, 2022
Summary Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) finds herself going to the same party and dying at the end of the night, only to wake up and do it all over again in this comedy co-created by Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.
Created By: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler
- Netflix
- Apr 20, 2022
- Netflix
- Apr 20, 2022
Summary Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) finds herself going to the same party and dying at the end of the night, only to wake up and do it all over again in this comedy co-created by Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.
Created By: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler
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Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
79
92% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Stylistically and philosophically consistent with its predecessor, it’s different enough to not feel like a calculating retread; as before, it’s admirable in its ingenuity, a little radical and deeply felt in ways that are not radical at all.
Seven bewitching, off-kilter, and visually stunning episodes.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.2
76% Positive
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14% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.2
76% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
14% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
10% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
This new season is less a Russian doll than a Fabergé egg. Gilded, ornate, almost ostentatiously clever and beguiling, but with that crucial surprise – a nugget of emotional clarity – that emerges as the egg is cracked.
Nothing in this season is quite as compulsively entertaining as the first season’s recurring fatalities, and there were some subject threads I wish had been carried through more consistently. But coming as close as this season does to recapturing, without shamelessly reproducing, the satisfying difficulty of the first season is achievement enough.
The season’s plotting isn’t as tight as the first, opting instead for a more expansive historical backdrop that allows ample time for the story to really dig into its characters’ backgrounds. But by increasingly leaning into its sci-fi elements, Russian Doll continues to strike at an emotional core through flights of delirious weirdness.
The second season is missing some of the unbridled mania that made the first so much fun, but still delivers on giving us more time with Lyonne’s Nadia and her madcap world.
Season two is bigger, in terms of time, geography, riddles, and mechanisms. But there’s a perverse backward effect to all that new roominess. Russian Doll wants to be more sprawling, leaving its emotional resonance smaller and emptier. Nadia’s frantic attempts to make her life right again start to feel myopic, and meanwhile there is not nearly enough Alan.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 2
Wow, a whole season just to learn to live in the present... again. Nadia in season 2 is just an one linear machine. In season 1 she was smart and was finding reasons why and figuring out why they were stuck in the timeloop. Now, she just makes the worst decisions ever and forgot all the lessons she learned before.
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SEASON 2
Seemingly bereft of the brilliance that made the first standout or the ideas that prompted such existentialism fail to land. Nadia's next time quandary is against her own mother's decisions which despite however hard she tries to fix it ends up extending the damage. It tries to be an exercise in forgiveness but stops short as joyless escapade without the stakes that made it so worthwhile.
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