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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Miriam Gillinson, Sam Jordison, Jessica Kiang, Hugh Morris and Jason Okundaye

Enjoy your trip: books, music, films and more for an out-of-body experience

Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in Russian Doll.
Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in Russian Doll. Photograph: Netflix

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We often think of out-of-body experiences as ghostly apparitions entering the bodies of other sentient beings. Now imagine if the thing your spirit entered was the body of your own mother 40 years ago, pregnant with … you! This is the premise of the recent second season of Netflix’s Russian Doll, in which main character Nadia , after grappling with the metaphysics of immortality in the first season, must now grapple with the metaphysics of time travel. It’s a thrilling sci-fi comedy, although the question of what you would do if you entered your own mother’s body is perhaps more appropriate in a gruesome horror. Jason Okundaye

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