Russian Doll is the new Netflix series that's so good, you low-key wish you could drain it from your memory and rewatch with virgin eyes. It follows a woman named Nadia as she continuously relives the night of her 36th birthday party, dying in a different way and restarting in front of the same bathroom mirror each time. If you haven't seen this trippy time loop show yet, you're definitely missing out. (And should probably stop reading this article immediately. Sorry, bye!)
The good news is, creators Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland loaded this series up with tons of Easter eggs, so its binge value is super high. Here are some of the hidden details you may have missed while you were freaking out over the prospect of falling down your apartment steps and dying.
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Nadia buys watermelon at the deli.
In the first episode, Nadia buys a container of sliced watermelon. This is long before we get a peek into the craziness of her childhood, where her mother basically forced her to live off of the fruit.
Nadia and Alan both give Horse the jewelry related to their problems.
Although the giftings occur in different time loops, Horse, the homeless man in the park, ends up with Nadia's mother's necklace and the engagement ring Alan planned to give Beatrice. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
You can actually see Nadia's mom, Lenora, wearing the necklace.
In "The Way Out," you can spot the gold bullion hanging from Lenora's neck.
BTW, that car is an Alfa Romeo Spider, which is the same kind of car Natasha Lyonne's mom drove in real life.
Three men play three different characters.
The three drunk guys who tear through the deli in the first episode seem insignificant, but a few eagle-eyed Redditors have pointed out that they actually show up twice more. They're also the same three men who tell Nadia that there is a bug in her video game code, and the EMTs who die in the ambulance with her.
Maxine calls Nadia a cockroach, which might actually be pretty significant.
During one of the, IDK, five million birthday party scenes, Maxine tells Nadia that she's a cockroach because drugs haven't killed her. Some Russian Doll fans on Twitter think that this suggests that Nadia is "the bug" in the "code" that causes the time loops. Interesting...
There are three Nadias in the parade scene at the end of the last episode.
Just when you thought you might have figured out the whole time loop thing, Russian Doll throws way more curly red hair at you than you were prepared to see.
There's a little shoutout to Greek mythology.
In the first episode, there's a poster hanging over the left side of Nadia's desk that says "Ariadne." This is also the name of the last episode of the season.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne is the daughter of Parsiphae and Minos. She's usually associated with mazes, labyrinths, and generally confusing shit because she falls in love with Theseus, the Athenian hero, and has to help him escape the Labyrinth.
Alan's fish swims through the sky.
When Nadia goes to Alan's rooftop to try to stop him from jumping, a dark figure moves across the sky. It weirdly looks exactly like the beta fish Alan has in some of the loops.
Buzz from Home Alone makes an appearance.
Okay, so, this isn't actually an Easter egg planted by the show's creators. It's just kind of cool. Actor Devin Ratray, who played Buzz in Home Alone, is an unnamed dude who annoys Nadia in the deli in episode two.
