Review: Russian Doll, "Station to Station" | Season 2, Episode 4
At the mid-way point of Nadia's and Alan's journey to the past, there's a bit too much my heart would still like to know, y'know?
At the halfway point of Russian Doll’s second season, Nadia is at a dead end: she feels like her journey to the past was meant to lead her to the realization that her family’s ill fortune dates back to the confiscation of their wealth on a Nazi gold train in 1944, but she has only scraps of information to go on. With Ruth’s encouragement, she takes Maxine on a journey to Budapest to investigate further, meeting a Nazi’s ancestor on a drug-fueled journey that brings them from a rave to, eventually, a graveyard.
Nadia is lost as to what this journey was supposed to provide, and I’m a little lost too, to be honest. There’s a real weightlessness to this season, and I’m trying to figure out what its root cause is. In the first season, I recall the uncertainty regarding the purpose of the time loop to be freeing, but here the lack of clarity as to why Nadia—and, we now learn, also Alan—is traveling back to the past doesn’t have the same drive or purpose behind it. It’s like we …