Part two of Russian dolls will begin streaming on April 20, Netflix announced on Monday along with intro video. It’s a fitting premiere date for a trivia series that, regardless of genre, is essentially a beautifully written and acted piece that expresses one’s thoughts very, very, very highly about death.
Starring the perfect Natasha Lyonne doing some memorable line readings in her signature New York accent (see: “cock-a-roach” and “Fifth, what a concept!“), Russian dolls take the premise of Groundhog’s Dayput it in Alphabet City, and add more drugs.
Season one introduced us to Lyonne’s Nadia, a party-loving software engineer who can’t seem to stay away from her married ex and who haunts Tompkins Square Park at night in search of her cat. her lost. After being hit by a car on her birthday night, she finds herself trapped in a time loop in which she dies over and over again and comes back to life on the same day, always returning to her birthday party from hell.
The new teaser shows Nadia sleeping in an empty subway car, crossing a tunnel. The musical suspense culminates, with shots of her in a graveyard, pushing through a crowd of people and falling through the air, finally ending in the recognizable bathroom door from a birthday party. . The clip undeniably captures the show’s frenzied sense of dread. “When the universe unites with you, let it be,” said our stubborn heroine, toasting.
The second season takes place four years after the events of the first, ending with Nadia’s Alan and Charlie Barnett finding their way out of the seemingly inevitable time loop. Lyonne serves as the series’ showrunner and executive producer, along with season one collaborators and co-producers Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.
