Russian Doll
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Next question: Can I write WTF a few hundred times and call it a recap?
Before I delve further into What the Fuck, lets start with Just the Facts.
Adult Nadia has figured out a few things about how time loops function.
The crashing is just a symptom of a bug in the code.
Relativity … Weve been experiencing time differently in these loops.
Somewhere, linear time as we used to understand it still exists.
They hatch a plan: Go back to the deli and rewrite their first interaction.
And she was so cute in the opening flashback!
- Of course the moms compulsions manifest as a watermelon/bodega spree.
Only one of the two women who routinely enter the bathroom do so this time.
The party is creepily underattended.
Im not leaving you here at the mercy of the time gods, Nadia tells Max and Lizzy.
I cannot be the reason that you stop existing.
They all leave, but then Adult Nadia sees Young Nadia again and dies.
Blood pours out of Young Nadias mouth; Adult Nadia gets a nosebleed; Adult Nadia dies again.
and Max dances alone.
Nadia says they have to leave.
I cant, Max says.
Im gonna throw you for a time-loop here and deliberatelynotanalyze why Max cant leave.
Im gonna guess that it just seemed like a cool way to get Nadia over to Alans alone.
I think that maybe shes lost, Nadia tells Alan in his emptied apartment about Young Nadia.
Alan agrees, suggesting she might be trapped somewhere between the past and the present.
Now Alans the man with the plan.
I cant let Beatrice disappear without making things right.
And you should do the same, he says.
Nadia, so resistant to making amends, threatens to kill herself if he doesnt stay.
You are the most selfish person I have ever met, he states plainly.
Thank you for changing my life.
Lives are hard to change.
Nadia has completely changed Alan.
Bea, equally magnanimous in return, asks if he got help for his issues.
I did let somebody help me, he says.
Nadia has changed things for the better a feat she credits toEmily of New Moonand its life force.
She takes the book to Johns daughter, Lucy, whos sitting alone at the restaurant from episode 5.
Nadia starts coughing up blood.
A preternaturally calm Lucy says, Shes still inside you.
Which she Young Nadia or Nadias mom?
Lucy turns into Young Nadia, who asks Adult Nadia, Are you ready to let her die?
Young Nadia says, This is the day we get free.
The same thing Nadias mom told her in 1991.
