“Happy Birthday Baby!” Talk about Russian Doll on Netflix

Having them end up in the same timeline at the end would've robbed them of the opportunity to save each other's lives, which was, in part, the whole genesis of the glitch.

Um, I kind of agree with Tuomas

The series would've been immensely weakened were the two timelines not divergent imo

i myself go to fabulous nyc parties like this all the time, but never on a sunday night.

This is by far the most unbelievable part of the show.

Like, just say she had to come in and do a bug fix on Sunday, it's much more believable and less distracting.

I remember lots of stuff going on Sunday nights. Friday and Saturdays were for tourists and bridge and tunnel (when I was younger).

yeah, not only would the divergent / ambiguity about divergence in the big metaphorical???? parade ending be drastically weaker, it would make the second series thuddingly bathetic

(if they do make one, which seems likely given the reaction; I'm fine if they don't, but Headland and Lyonne get commissioned to make something else new instead)


xp nah, so much of her character and milieu is IMMEDIATELY filled in by the fact that a) she doesn't want a birthday party b) rich artist friends throw her a huge party c) on her actual birthday because that is her birthday d) nearly exclusively full of people she's never set eyes on before e) that she goes to anyway regardless of her antipathy, the absence of friends, and having a major work deadline in the morning.

plus f) the way she handles the meeting when she turns up

i've thrown several birthday parties on sunday nights. monday sucked ass yeah

Horse Badorties is such a great name and I've been thinking about it all day

The idea of them making "season 2" of this is absurd and I hope nobody is actually thinking about doing it, so few things end well and this one does.

Lyonne & Headland & Poehler have a three-season plan, so they’re the ones you have to tell are getting it wrong.

They *pitched* a 3 season plan, but we don't know how much it got condensed to give us the season we got.

Yeah, not looking forward to further seasons

Well I do have great faith in them based on this, so if they came in with a 3-season plan, I trust there's a good reason for it. But if they are feeling compelled to scramble to come up with something because everybody likes this so much, then no, I think they should let this ending be the ending and do something else.

Just finished, and I adored it, but yeah, I really hope they don't do a second season. This was a full story in itself, what the hell would be the point?

if they came in with a 3-season plan, I trust there's a good reason for it. But if they are feeling compelled to scramble to come up with something because everybody likes this so much, then no, I think they should let this ending be the ending and do something else.

This sums up my feelings much better than my own post, actually.

Friday and Saturdays were for tourists and bridge and tunnel (when I was younger).

These people are too old for Sunday night blowouts

This is a ludicrous thing to be pedantic about, people party on Sundays

Natasha lyonne is in her 30s

In the show. She's about to be 40 irl.

She's about to be 40 irl.

So... she's in her 30s, then?

My "when I was younger" thing was more about NYC (pre-internet loneliness_ gentrification) than about age really.

She’s 39, apparently.

So you’re all right!

Sorry, I'm just trying to claim her for our side (forty-somethings).

Just wait a little under two months.

The best thing about nyc was how 30-40-80 somethings would still go out on school nights.

Having them end up in the same timeline at the end would've robbed them of the opportunity to save each other's lives, which was, in part, the whole genesis of the glitch.

Mainlined this entire thing last night, thoughts and impressions still percolating but one thing I keep coming back to is that, for reasons I can't quite pin down, this felt like a Jaime Hernandez story to me (which is super high praise). Possibly because I haven't seen anyone on screen better capture the essence of Hopey Glass than Natasha Lyonne (who should probably win all the awards).

Interesting comparison. I've always wondered who would be good actresses to play Maggie and Hopey.

Probably end up with Emma Stone and ScarJo.

Probably end up with Emma Stone and ScarJo.

at one point there was something caught in nadia's hair -- what was it, i didn't catch it

Champagne cork wire

later turned into a bistro chair, which people do.

Enjoying this. I like how it feels like a fantasy melange of early 00s and contemporary LES/East Village as parties like this were familiar to me - minus the recurring stuff - back in the early 2000s. Different NYC.

About to go back and re-read thread now that I finished the series yesterday but I just wanted to co-sign this ^ hard. NL's style and the party (smoking indoors incessantly lol) and the version of the LES (Odessa??!) portrayed are basically point-for-point out of the late 90s/early 00s that I remember. Pre-electroclash rockers everywhere, like no colors existed other than black, white, and red, somewhere in between mod revival and 70s glam. The vintagey blouses, the sharp-toed boots--and going clubbing on Sunday nights in defiance of Monday mornings. (Shout was on Sundays!)

It made me really happy and nostalgic tbrr.

From something someone said on fb I think the name "Horse" was a shout-out to an actual person from pre-gentrification LES days.

Oh I didn't realize both Veselka and Odessa still existed. For some reason I thought at least one of them had closed.

I just watched Ocean's 8 on the plane and they oddly eat at Veselka.

YES I watched that yesterday too! lol

Odessa bar closed, diner is still there. I djd Karen O’s 21st birthday party in her apt above Odessa but she and her friends including one ex-ilxor were more interested in hanging out on the roof with some Shout dudes.

Also saw a FB friend talking about Tompkins park gutter punk named Horse and assuming it was a tribute but I like the book theory above. Could be all if the above. Happy to accept this show as working on several different levels and angles.

He will always be Warren to me.

Warren G Horsey

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/arts/television/natasha-lyonne-netflix-russian-doll.html?fbclid=IwAR0DSYQQp2Pbm6ohGqXalDnUxRQ4Bs3npUHSufycDniNU0N1u9arfLGNpTw

the gutter punk who’s not based on a real character from my life that I know from Tompkins

https://www.facebook.com/whorse.krapp?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCMKF0zUSWuvYcKUWww_baZWCTX0lASiHclMBp3VLc_wlzdcPIdjW-ajhLhlzV2Lg6jQcq4L1soGOLL&fref=mentions

lol, he posts his phone number there

I've read every single link posted here about the show. Love it all.

heh I'll never forget the time in early 2000 when I went to a party near the New York University campus near Greenpoint, Brooklyn (sort of by the Pies and Thighs restraunt) and I accidentally walked into a bedroom where Karen O from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs was having sexual intercourse with Julian Casabalancas from The Strokes. OMG! parties back then were really wild and crazy, with many sex and drugs! fun times

is it "Happy Birthday Baby" or "Sweet Birthday Baby!" which one does the Asian woman say

i think she says both? confirm/deny?

the latter