Here at Flicks we trust in Orange Is The New Black star Natasha Lyonne, so her promise that season 2 of Russian Doll will be “deep, and deeply off-the-wall” is taken seriously.
The first season came out way back in 2019, and the upcoming next set of episodes is confirmed to take place four years after those time-looping events. Netflix subscribers can check back in on Nadia and fellow reluctant time-traveller Alan (Charlie Barnett) on April 20, when season 2 of Russian Doll lets us back in the loop.
Russian Doll: Season 2
In an Entertainment Weekly interview Lyonne, who writes and produces the show alongside director Leslye Headland, says she isn’t content to rest on the very critically-acclaimed first season’s laurels. “We all pushed ourselves to the limit of what we thought we could make happen visually and through the storytelling”, she claims, citing new cast members as part of the renewed appeal.
Schitt’s Creek star Annie Murphy shows up as a new ally to Groundhog Day sufferer Nadia but dastardly new forces, and an era-spanning, intergenerational adventure found in a Manhattan “trademark location”, won’t make any new friendships easier. Programmer Nadia’s solution is to raise a glass of whiskey to the chaos in the below date announcement: “The universe fucks with you. Let it.”
“Be honest”, Craig Mathieson asks in his selection of April’s best new stuff on Netflix: “has there been a more perfect limited series that didn’t need a second season than this captivating existential screwball comedy from 2019?” Despite worrying about diminishing returns, Mathieson did choose the new season as one of the month’s most promising Netflix releases, saying, “Fingers crossed that lightning strikes twice, although if nothing else Nadia remains a glorious protagonist.”
As Nadia knows more than most people, lighting can indeed strike twice—anything, in fact, can happen over and over and over again. Here’s to season 2, which should undoubtedly surprise and bewilder us in fresh new ways.
