Friday, 8 August 2025

Russian Doll (2019 Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler)

A darker Groundhog Day with a twist - Natasha Lyonne finds out that there's another one dying and coming back again, Charlie Barnett. Are their fates intertwined? Is there a mental health theme?

Nadia (Lyonne) certainly has a troubled past, a mentally unstable mother (Chloe Sevigny) - oh, Nadia Vulvokov - a Russian doll. Is that anything to do with it? Elizabeth Ashley is her surrogate mother.

Friends Greta Lee and Rebecca Henderson, Jeremy Bobb, Brendan Sexton III (homeless), Yul Vazquez.

Also lusciously photographed - please take note, every other streaming series.

And - rather funny.

Natasha is a very distinctive talent. One of her earliest performances as a child was with Pee Wee Herman, who she loved. Working then solidly (including in Woody's Everyone Says I Love You) into her twenties she became addicted to heroin, which she finally kicked by 2013's revival Orange Is The New Black.



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