Russian Doll season 2 picks up the story four years after its time-looping first season. Nadia, who became a time prisoner after being hit by a taxi on the night of her 36th birthday (Season 1), is now on the edge of 40. Her party is some weeks away, at the end of March, when she gets on a 6 train, leaving Lenox Hill hospital where her adoptive guardian and surrogate mother, Ruth, has been receiving treatment following a car accident—and what we assume to be degenerative illness of some sort.Nadia boards the train at 77th street on the Upper East Side, taking it downtown to Astor Place, about nine stops south. (This might seem unnecessarily specific, but New York City subway geography becomes important for the sci-fi concept of Season 2.) She steps off the train at Astor, having been transported to 1982—and transubstantiated into the body of her pregnant mother. Understanding the ending of the second season requires that we understand Nadia’s relationship with both her biological mother, Nora, and her surrogate… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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The Very Confusing, Time-Jumping Ending to Russian Doll Season 2, Explained
