Russian Doll
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Willa Paskin is joined by Dana Stevens and Rachel Syme to discuss the Netflix original series Russian Doll. What does this show have to say about New York City? Would the show still work without Natasha Lyonne? Will we watch the second season? Listen to them discuss!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.3 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.4 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:13.9 | I need my sister and my daughter. |
| 0:19.1 | Rosberg. |
| 0:21.5 | What's in the box? |
| 0:24.4 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. |
| 0:27.8 | Today we're going to be talking about Russian doll, the great Netflix series created by |
| 0:31.5 | Natasha Leone, Leslie Headland, and Amy Poehler that stars Leon as Nadia Volvacov, |
| 0:36.3 | a raspy voice, a video game creator who finds |
| 0:38.3 | herself dying over and over again. I'm Slate's TV critic Willa Paskin, and I'm joined today |
| 0:43.5 | by Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hi, Dana. Hey. And writer and culture critic Rachel Sime. Hi, |
| 0:48.8 | Rachel. Hello. It has been like an extremely long time since I watched a TV show that I was like, I would like to start over and watch this again. |
| 1:00.4 | Or like I would actually like to recap this show. |
| 1:03.6 | It's been, I mean, it's been, maybe it's never happened. |
| 1:05.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:06.7 | But I wanted to do all of those things with Russian dolls. |
| 1:09.2 | So I'm very excited to be talking with you guys about it in detail. There's a lot, I think, to talk about, like a lot of big ideas, a lot of small ideas. And we're going to try to get to a lot of them. I'm sure we won't get to all of them. But because this is a spoiler special, I want to just start by, like, doing a very precise synopsis of the plot. I'll start, but you guys will have to actually did rewatch it. You are right that it is the kind of show and we can get into why this is. I think it's because it's so recursive and circular that you kind of want to go back to the beginning and become a Nadia yourself and repeat the whole experience. and I did rewatch it, so I should be able to do this, but I'm not sure I'm great at plot explication. |
| 1:47.2 | So jump in if you need to help me. So as you've said, Nadia is a 36-year-old video game developer in New York. She turns 36 on the day the show begins, which is... I just want to interrupt and say her being 36 and a video game developer are like the least true things about the show. |
| 2:03.4 | Right, right. |
| 2:04.7 | We see her program once. |
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