Netflix these weeks she has been trapped in her particular descent into the abyss, on account of the fall in subscribers and its subsequent collapse in the Stock Market. Everything seems to have gone downhill. The platform is entangled in search of the lost subscriber and waiting to repeat the hit of ‘the squid game‘, while continuing with its rhythm of releases in which it seems to be despising other house titles labeled as minor. Although the small also adds. It is the case of ‘Russian doll’, whose second season arrived a few weeks ago. His landing in the catalog has not been accompanied by the usual media fanfare to which he has accustomed us.
It may not be a title especially aimed at mass audiences, but it cannot be denied that it is a series that brings together the essences of those first Netflix titles and that lifted her to where she is: the face of one of the first stars of the house and eighties nostalgia.
natasha lyonne is its protagonist, as well as director and screenwriter of several of its episodes. She played one of the funniest characters in ‘Orange is the new black’, which was one of the first series on the platform. It was precisely this success that allowed her to make the leap to the other side of the camera and start telling her own stories, accompanied by Leslye Headland and of Amy Poehler, the other creators of ‘Russian Doll’. The rebellion of Nicky Nichols of the litchfield penitentiary stays in character nadia vulvokov.
At each installment, Nadia has to go through the unpleasant experience of discovering in front of the bathroom mirror that she has fallen back into some other cosmic imbalance due to old unresolved traumas. Their curly red hair, his cigarette in his lips, his sunglasses and his baroque black jackets, accompanied by his sarcastic comments towards the most delusional situations that come his way, have become the hallmark of the Netflix series. As for her traveling companions, just to mention that Leslye Headland has been entrusted with the task of launching one of the most unique television series in the Star Wars franchise, entitled ‘The Accolyte‘ centered on the rise of the dark side of the Force. Almost nothing.
The first season of ‘Russian Doll’ referred us to the movie ‘Trapped in Time’, where the protagonist was forced to relive the same day over and over again. Nadia’s birthday seems to be the key date for getting caught up in these quantum accidents. For this second season we do not have a loop that repeats itself over and over again, but time travel.
Knowing the preference of the platform for the blocksbusters of the 80s, it would be easy to think that we are facing a new ‘Return to the future‘ and for Nadia to emulate Marty McFly (Michael J Fox). But the truth is that this second season has more in common with another classic of that decade: ‘Peggy Sue got married‘. In the movie of Francis Ford CoppolaPeggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) returned to the years of his youth and was again a teenager. With the memories of his adult self, he took the opportunity to try to correct all the mistakes he made throughout his life. Like Peggy Sue, in ‘Russian Doll’ there is time travel but we are not in a science fiction title; while the comedy moments alternate with more dramatic ones. In ‘Russian Doll’ there are no great pseudoscientific explanations of why what happens happens. It is pure psychedelia. In this case, it could be said that Peggy Sue is stoned.
When Nadia travels back in time, she doesn’t become a younger version of herself, but instead occupies her mother’s body while pregnant with her. This second part is an opportunity to give more presence to the character played by Chloe Sevigni and that had been very wasted in the first season. An subway car It is the unusual time machine that transports Nadia to the past (hey, look, almost like in the third part of ‘Back to the Future’). Like Peggy Sue, she too will try to fix all the things that have broken her family’s lives, only to discover that these trips do not serve to change anything, but only to reconcile with his past, accept what happened and why. Along the way, we’ll meet with trips to other decades and the stories of other main characters. Until reaching moments of the most delirious worthy of an episode of Star Trek. There are a few spoilers here, but there are scenes where we think their protagonist is definitely under the influence of that iranian cocaine joint. Like when we see Nadia giving birth to herself or taking the baby version of her from her past to get him away from the clutches of her mother, twist that causes time to break. Or when she discovers the Mortuary where all the bodies from the times she passed away while trapped in the time loop of the first season are stored.
Through trips to the past, Nadia discovers her own version of the multiverse. Although very far from the epic of marvel or dc. A mythology made up of small events that have marked her life and that of those around her. The history of his family and how it could have been. By the way, that the same week that the Marvel multiverse rebounds strongly with the premiere of the second part of Doctor Strange, DC seems to be finalizing his with the cancellation of ‘Legends of Tomorrow‘.
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