Russian Doll was released to almost unanimous praise, and it’s easy to see why. It offers an engrossing mystery, the characters are compelling (especially Nadia, played by Natasha Lyonne), and it paints a picture of the in-your-face NYC that many of us had forgotten still exists. But it’s also clear that it strives to be something deeper—it wants to be something really worth thinking about—and on that score it unfortunately fails. It’s sci-fi, but it’s just not very good sci-fi.

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