Die, relive, repeat

Despite each of the eight episodes being under 30 minutes, Russian Doll tends to get lumbering with subplots

After slagging off Netflix in my previous column for being unimaginative in its operations, it might be a little rich of me to wax eloquent about a new show on the streaming platform. Nevertheless, my profession demands I bring it to my readers’ notice whenever I stumble upon something as scintillating as this show about a woman who dies on the night of her 36th birthday party only to relive the same night in an infinite loop. 

Natasha Lyonne brings blistering energy as the freewheeling Manhattan-based Russian Jew, Nadia Vulvokov, who keeps dying in richly imagined ways only to re-appear