Russian Doll Goes Underground, and Back in Time, in Absorbing Season 2

When Russian Doll premiered on Netflix in February 2019, the story of a New Yorker reliving the same day over and over again seemed like just another time-loop saga — a Groundhog Day with the crabby middle-aged weatherman replaced by a crabby millennial video game programmer. In that pre-pandemic world, plodding through purgatory until you truly comprehend your moral obligation to safeguard a stranger’s life seemed like an interesting thought experiment. But while the show’s first season hits different now, its second (fortunately) does not try to repeat Russian Doll’s repetitions. Instead, in season two, our hero finds herself on… Read Full Article