Natasha Lyonne

Spoiler. I don't know how to really talk about a show without spoiling.

I read the New Yorker profile of Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein and that made me want to give Russian Doll another try. I didn't really think all the quips and lines were that great, but I get it that she's a kind of enfant terrible of New York now. I heard the line, "Nothing is easy except peeing in the shower." I didn't really know her background and career until Orange Is The New Black, and I didn't really pay attention when I watched through this show the first time. Sometimes it takes a profile in the New Yorker to get someone.

She said this line too fast in episode 5: "Sexualizing self hatred is the hallmark of any relationship that begins with extramarital infidelity."

There was an interesting theory, that art sucks now because all the interesting critics died during the AIDS Crisis of the 80's. 

The show is like her, jaded, mostly mundane but occasionally interesting. I want to get to know her--is an equal proportion for the knowledge that I must stay away from her chaos.

This show follows Groundhog Day, I'm not sure what the precursor to that is. Even though Nadia Vulvokov is skeptical of the idea, she acts on trying to add positive energy to the world while she tries to figure out what is going on. 

I like "sex pile" and, "looks like someone threw a gauntlet into my pusepuse." (S1E6)

Fruit is rotting, so somehow time is passing with fruit, despite the resets. That's a kind of foreshadowing that it's not going to be stuck. The wheels come off in episode 7. But then things change, and there's a resolution. It conforms to the Groundhog Day expectation that a certain line of ethical behavior will end the loop.

Chag sameach means happy festival, or happy holidays. Lyonne lived in Israel for a while with her family.

The profile didn't give out the information that she was in a relationship with Fred Armisen. (source). They broke up because he didn't want a pool and she did. I love that.

Season 2 has a different frame. Instead of a Groundhog day repeat of the possibilities of the same day, she travels back to 1982. And she’s her pregnant mom. She goes back and solves various problems. What the hell is happening? How can I get my money back? She rewriting her mother's reckless behavior. She investigates her past. Again, the violating of the time space continuum starts to break things down. Scary insects are in her body.