Okay, I’d Like to Escape the ‘Russian Doll’ Time Loop Now

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( tv review [Okay, I’d Like to Escape Russian Doll’s Time Loop Now]( When everything everywhere all at once backfires. Photo: COURTESY OF NETFLIX/COURTESY OF NETFLIX After three long years away, the trippy, time-traveling dark existential comedy of family trauma [Russian Doll]( has returned to Netflix for a second season. In its first, the show’s star and co-creator, Natasha Lyonne, played Nadia, a woman trapped in a time loop at her 36th birthday party. To her annoyance and increasing terror, Nadia keeps meeting an untimely death, then, over and over again, wakes to find herself right smack at the beginning. She is stuck at the same party, stuck with the same sense of ennui and underexplored troubling childhood memories. Eventually she connects with Alan (Charlie Barnett), himself caught in a time loop, and together they realize that they have been linked by some unknown knot in the space-time continuum. And they can’t escape without finding the source of one another’s pain. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [Saturday Night Live:]( Lizzo Is 100 Percent That Good • [Winning Time:]( Invisible Man • [Sanditon:]( Is This a Kissing Show? • [90 Day Fiancé:]( At Last, New Couples! [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [What to Remember Before Better Call Saul’s Final Season It’s been two years since we last saw these characters in action, so let’s review where we left off with Jimmy, Kim, Mike, and the rest.]( By Brian Tallerico 2. [All of the Times Lizzo Broke on SNL Along with the rest of the cast.]( 3. [The Batman Director Matt Reeves’s 10 Favorite Movie Kills “Spielberg really sets the table, to tell you that nothing is off the table. He lets you know from the beginning that there are no rules.”]( By Bilge Ebiri 4. [Watch Coachella 2008 Through the Eyes of Huell Howser For fans of PBS and indie sleaze. There’s got to be more than one of you out there.]( By Bethy Squires [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [The Minutes on Broadway Feels a Few Years Too Late There was a time when Tracy Letts’s play, about a city council with a secret, felt prescient. But real life has outstripped its satire.]( By Helen Shaw 6. [The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2022 From Harry Styles’s Shania Twain cameo to … a metal version of the Simpsons theme?]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 13-Across, Four Letters: Singer with killer pregnancy fashion, to fans. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of Studios Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. [Watch Killing It](, which draws incisive observations out of its first absurd setup — a hunt to kill pythons, with a $20,000 reward — and the increasingly silly ones that follow over its ten-episode first season, all of which is available to stream. [Read more from Vulture]( This week at Union Hall Vulture’s weekly comedy show, Pretty Major, will feature Tawanda Gona, Josh Gondelman, Isabel Hagen, Jess Henderson, and more. [Buy tickets here.]( Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. • [Vulture 10x10 Crossword](: A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday. • [The Critics](: A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse, sent Fridays. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved