Netflix/YouTube
Season two of Russian Dollwill begin streaming on April 20, Netflix introduced on Monday alongside a video teaser. It’s a becoming premiere date for the trippy, genre-defying sequence that's basically a superbly written and acted rendering of a really, very excessive particular person’s ideas about mortality.
Starring an impeccable Natasha Lyonne performing some memorably pleasant line readings in her trademark New York accent (see: “cock-a-roach” and “Thursday, what an idea!”), Russian Doll takes the premise of Groundhog Day, units it in Alphabet Metropolis, and provides a number of medicine.
Season one launched us to Lyonne’s Nadia, a hard-partying software program engineer who can’t appear to keep away from her married ex and who haunts Tompkins Sq. Park at night time looking for her misplaced cat. After being hit by a automobile on the night time of her birthday, she finds herself caught in a time loop through which she dies repeatedly and retains reliving the identical day, at all times winding up again at her celebration from hell.
The brand new teaser sees Nadia asleep in an empty subway automobile, hurtling by means of a tunnel. The suspenseful music crescendos, with photographs of her in a graveyard, pushing by means of a crowd of individuals, and falling by means of the air, ultimately ending on the recognizable lavatory door from the celebration. The clip undeniably captures the present’s frantic sense of claustrophobia. “When the universe fucks with you, let it,” our headstrong heroine says whereas elevating a glass.
The second season takes place 4 years after the occasions of the primary one, which ended with Nadia and Charlie Barnett’s Alan discovering their approach out of the seemingly inescapable time loop. Lyonne serves as showrunner and govt producer of the sequence, alongside season one collaborators and co-producers Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.