This story first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
Netflix’s “Russian Doll” tells the same story over and over and over again for the better part of the comedy’s eight-episode first season — and that’s what makes it interesting. The series, which stars Natasha Lyonne and was created by her, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland, follows a woman named Nadia (Lyonne) who gets trapped in a time loop when she dies on the night of her birthday party.
The connection to the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day” might seem obvious here — but it wasn’t to Headland, at first.
“To be quite honest, I never thought of ‘Groundhog Day’ in the initial pitch,” Headland said. “I thought of it much more as a funny ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’ Like, it’s a video game. She’s not reliving the same day or the same...
Netflix’s “Russian Doll” tells the same story over and over and over again for the better part of the comedy’s eight-episode first season — and that’s what makes it interesting. The series, which stars Natasha Lyonne and was created by her, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland, follows a woman named Nadia (Lyonne) who gets trapped in a time loop when she dies on the night of her birthday party.
The connection to the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day” might seem obvious here — but it wasn’t to Headland, at first.
“To be quite honest, I never thought of ‘Groundhog Day’ in the initial pitch,” Headland said. “I thought of it much more as a funny ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’ Like, it’s a video game. She’s not reliving the same day or the same...
- 5/30/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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