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

I kinda don’t want to know anything about what’s going to happen, gonna dive in when S2 surfaces

Goddamn. This is gonna be a year of returning TV for me innit

I keep thinking that people are talking about the other Charlie Barnett and getting confused: https://www.vulture.com/2012/03/timing-is-everything-the-story-of-charlie-barnett.html

Two weeks to go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvEyUOoLehI

So we will see andmoreagain after all.

Haven't played the trailer, but that's the post-Mitch head of news from The Morning Show on the right; she's very good in that.

I'll always think of Greta Lee as the hipster grifter from High Maintenance.

that "when are we" joke was pretty funny

Dropped today?

Maybe I’ll fire up the first episode after work

Pretty sure the rest of the Redds have watched multiple episodes already.

Went into the first episode of the new season with low expectations but it was really excellent.

Have watched 2 episodes so far and really liking it a lot. For some reason the humour element works for me much more this time than it did in series 1.

halfway through, not really feeling this season so far tbh, can't quite put my finger on why

a bit hopeful it'll resolve in a way that redeems the whole season

Just finished this. It is a bit mixed. Although I like the ambition of opening the series beyond NY to Budapest and Berlin, it didn’t work as well as the more contained first series. I also didn’t like some of the rather heavy handed resolution in the final episode.

Still plenty to enjoy in this series though.

Can someone convince me to proceed beyond Episode 3? Just not feeling it.

I know this won’t happen, but wouldn’t it be cool to have a single surprise episode of this show (in whatever season) where nothing weird happens, where the main characters just rub up against each other?

Dunno if I’ve changed or she has, but can’t deal with Nadia’s growly shit-talkin’ schtick this time around.

Noticed something similar when I watched a few minutes. In any case, think I will sit this one out until the dust settles.

There was stuff to enioy but it really wasn't necessary and was definitely resolved hurriedly. Once she takes the baby on the train and we start to see time fall apart at the hospital it didn't work at all, I didn't think.

Too many ideas were introduced and thrown away immediately - Nadia's in a mental asylum! Oh no, wait, she just climbed out of the window. The Hungarian rave warehouse felt like a low point.

can’t deal with Nadia’s growly shit-talkin’ schtick this time around.

It definitely feels like she's a relic of pre-gentrified NYC and this persona is part of it. Weirdly she seemed more at home in the 80s sequences.

The time-space collapse was my favorite part of the series and I really enjoyed watching it but my overarching question at the end was “Why?” It was a fantastic ride but the point did not resonate with me, so I ended up feeling removed from this season whereas I firmly fell in love with the first season. There broad theme seems to be self-acceptance and reconciliation with all of the contradictory forces that lead to your existence, but also tied up in it was a meditation on grief that still managed to get short shrift even though it overwhelmed the end of the season and there was no compelling reason for or payoff to Alan’s story as it was presented.

Not as good as S1 but I really enjoyed S2. First three eps were a bit blah but it gets better imo.

Wow, she really is doing Columbo, isn’t she

Started watching this last night. I said to bf "wasn't the first season set in the 80s? I'm confused". I realized that I'd so internalized Zinoman's theory upthread that I remembered it as being set in the 80s. I'm about to read that Twitter thread again and I'm excited

this was terrible: they forgot to write a story!

DJP completely OTM. As impressed as I was with how this season was handled, and as enjoyable as it was, it felt like there was something missing at the center.

can’t deal with Nadia’s growly shit-talkin’ schtick this time around.

I feel like the fact that she didn't say, "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" was an oversight (or an outtake).

I was really disappointed in this season, but I thought the last episode was beautiful and somewhat redeemed the arc.

I think I loved this as much of the first season, although it fell apart towards the end (also much like the first season?). Some refinance to me as an assimilated Jew with an Eastern European riches to rags to middle-type family story.

Anyway – would definitely watch more, but need more Alan next time.

Oops refinance = resonance

giving up a few episodes in. Just not feeling it.

i both really liked this season and agree with many of the criticisms in the thread lol. i think i just really like watching natasha lyonne do her thing, and the dialogue was really funny. i wish there was more senior ruth, love that actress and her smoker's voice.

feel like this was a v. impressive second season for a show that absolutely shouldn't have had one

i mean i liked it -- give me subway trains running throughout time and i'll watch -- but alan's part was absolutely tacked on (as was his mustache, i hope). only having to hear harry nilsson once or twice is a plus, but literally sending your protagonist to hungary as the axis falls should have somehow been more than a plot point

and if you're gonna go to the trouble of staging a modern-day hungarian rave, at least let greta get laid

Somehow got stuck unable to find an English set of subtitles for episode 5 for my tv. They were there when I looked for them on my computer.
& there is a lot of that episode with Hungarian being spoken. Wound up having to watch on the computer.

I missed how she managed to work out how to become a different generation of her ancestry. Or was that done by moving down the train like she was at the end of the episode.
Or was that covered by her saying well better get to Hungary

i both really liked this season and agree with many of the criticisms in the thread lol.

Same. I watched it when I was slightly feverish with Covid and the series' hallucinatory flavour, especially in the second half, nicely complemented my illness.

But it's a real mess. It's as if they were planning two more series - a third one perhaps focussing on Alan in Berlin- but had to bring all the ideas together suddenly at short notice. There's a lot to enjoy though if you're prepared to overlook its flaws.

I found the flaws only became apparent towards the end when the narrative started sprawling out of control, so it was still kinda five episodes of fun, and two episodes of “wait what”, and even those last two episodes had some good stuff. Alan wuz definitely robbed this season though.

gonna say it - i dug his mustache

100% sexy weird moustache

Disappointing. There were no 'rules' about what she could do, how she could change anything, where she could go, what she could take with her, so it all seemed a bit 'now she is taken here and does this thing and wisecracks to everyone'. Bit like Doctor Who, but at least that sets out 'the rules' for the current goal in each episode. The stakes seemed to get lower and lower in s2 as more and more felt unreal. Looked great though; I would've liked her to hang out in the 80s a bit more.

In s1 the people gradually disappearing and the fruit rotting etc felt genuinely sinister - here it didn't really do that. The bit about Nora's mental illness encroaching into Nadia was quite scary, but then she just became someone else.