why I will always recommend watching Russian Doll

There is no way that you have missed Netflix’s Russian Doll on social media. OINTB’s Natasha Lyonne’s seven-year work finally saw the light of day this year and received well deserved accreditation because of its simplistic storytelling style of a fairly complex plot.

The reason that people like watching Russian Doll is because it makes them feel smart. There are no ‘will they, won't they?’ couple, no quirky but adorable characters and no cinematic brilliance. It is a slightly convoluted story about normal people who are frankly not that likeable.

Viewers (including me) were drawn to the idea of unraveling the plot, one ~Russian doll~ after another and also because Natasha Lyonne is a comedic Goddess.

Emulating the hallmark of a good tv-show, Russian Doll takes you on a journey. I found myself feeling protagonist Nadia’s emotions every step of the day: frustration when she’s trapped in what she imagines to be purgatory, sympathy when she finds out about Alan’s first death and panic when she realizes that might soon be dead forever. Russian Doll pulled off what most tv-shows these day struggle to do- draw a story from regular life and exemplify them.

The show is littered with characters we have all met in real life, some of whom we’re even friends with. Nadia is a no-BS, foul-mouthed woman facing problems women her age generally do, Alan is a shell of a man consumed with his own eternal sense of self, Maxine is an overbearing, control woman, Beatrice is what we all envision the high school Prom Queen to become in the next 20 years, and Mike is every a-hole that we all find ourselves falling for at least once in our lifetime and we hate ourselves for it. Always. The point is that these are characters we understand, characters we might even be minus the whole time-warp thing. Sure these characters might not sound like the best people but thats where the show’s charm chimes in. These characters learn. They get better (at least most of them) or maybe they just grow on us because like I said, they remind us of people we know.

The plot in itself is not the most unique but the way that Lyonne integrates substance into it is unparalleled. I started off watching a show about a woman who constantly dies while walking down stairs but I ended with a clearer picture of intricate human dynamics and others social issues with much wider implications such as homelessness and suicide presented in their most raw and organic form. Russian Doll doesn’t gloss over reality or romanticizes it; it simply presents it in its most mundane and grounded form.

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