Russian Doll season 2 finally has the main character in an actual Russian Doll situation, which while not a wholly original concept to science fiction, was used in fun effect to explain the character quirks of her mother in the first season. What made this season the lesser of the two is it tried to cram too much into each episode which requires several MacGuffin's to let things keep moving forward to get it all in there. Too many people she encounters seem much too willing to believe she's "time traveling" for people of those era for which the idea of time traveling would have been even more absurd than now. The audience did fine with the slower pace of the first season, not sure why they felt that same audience needed such a fast pace this season, which only crammed in a lot of story elements that just didn't need to exist.
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Russian Doll season 2 finally has the main character in an actual Russian Doll situation, which while not a wholly original concept to science fiction, was used in fun effect to explain the character quirks of her mother in the first season.
What made this season the lesser of the two is it tried to cram too much into each episode which requires several MacGuffin's to let things keep moving forward to get it all in there. Too many people she encounters seem much too willing to believe she's "time traveling" for people of those era for which the idea of time traveling would have been even more absurd than now.
The audience did fine with the slower pace of the first season, not sure why they felt that same audience needed such a fast pace this season, which only crammed in a lot of story elements that just didn't need to exist.