Season One of Russian Doll, Netflix’s high-concept comedy about a woman who spends her 36th birthday dying over and over again, ends with Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov marching in a ghoulish Mardi Gras parade to Love’s ‘Alone Again Or’. The second series opens with her striding through the streets of New York accompanied by Depeche Mode’s...
The second series opens with Natasha Lyonne striding through the streets of New York accompanied by Depeche Mode’s ‘Personal Jesus’. (She’s a very good strider, all forceful bounce and hands thrust in pockets.) No time seems to have elapsed, but we soon discover it’s 2022 and Nadia is about to turn forty. The time warp effect, heightened by Nadia’s steampunk jacket and shaggy red hair, is multiplied in the funhouse mirror of the new season’s plot.