‘Russian Doll’ is back with a new set of existential queries

In season two of her blockbuster Netflix comedy “Russian Doll,” actress and writer Natasha Lyonne delves deeper into existential issues, sending her heroine Nadia and her buddy Alan to explore their pasts via a New York subway time portal.

Nadia and Alan go on a new quest spanning several periods after successfully escaping a time loop that saw them perish repeatedly in season one. They will, however, have to find a way out once more.

When “Russian Doll” was released in 2019, it was a critical and popular success, giving co-creator Lyonne the leeway to expand on the tale.

“I mostly desired to create intriguing paintings. I was thinking to myself, “Who am I?” What am I passionate about? You know, what are the genuine talks we’re having?” In an interview with Reuters, Lyonne stated.

“And as you get older, your personal experience moves you…to someone who is truly concerned about mortality and the finite nature of time. That, for me, is distinct from the particular. It’s a remarkably universal feeling.”

Season two takes place four years after the first, and parts of the episodes are set in 1982 in New York’s East Village. Nadia’s late mother Nora, played by Chloe Sevigny, is given more screen time.

“We get to really go deeper into the Nora-Nadia relationship…explore that mother-daughter dynamic and simply have more clues as to why Nadia is the person she is, what she’s fighting with, and how she’s trying to overcome certain things,” said Sevigny.

Nadia’s connection with Maxine, played by Greta Lee, is another relationship that is further developed.

“She’s a really present person who’s up for everything, so she’ll be travelling this season. She’s practically along for the voyage “Maxine was mentioned by Lee.

“I really like that portrayal of that couple; it’s one I don’t believe we get to see very often. When you think of legendary film and television duos, you think of Bonnie and Clyde, but you see more masculine versions of that. It was good to have our own interpretation of what that may be.”

The second season of “Russian Doll” will be available on Netflix on April 20.