Russian Doll has just been renewed for a second season—have you slept on it?!
Television has become a better place for women. Comedies like Broad City and Parks and Recreation have made space for representations of women that don’t fit into the traditional sitcom stereotype of the long-suffering wife and mother or single gal in search of a man. But when it comes to genre-bending stories with complex, metaphysical themes, the central focus still skews largely male. Russian Doll, which launched at the beginning of February, shifts that focus.
Created by the super team of Amy Poehler, Lyonne and Leslye Headland, who wrote and directed the deeply underrated 2012 film Bachelorette, the show’s time-bending plot has already launched a thousand think pieces. But what drew me through my first binge watch was the central performance. Gruff-voiced and caustic, Lyonne seemed like one of those comic actors doomed to prop up the classic beauty in the central role—a perpetual Rosie O’Donnell to some contemporary Meg Ryan.
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