Three and out.
That’s how Natasha Lyonne pictures her latest series, Russian Doll.
Lyonne’s character, Nadia, finds herself reliving her 36th birthday over and over, with no way to break the Groundhog Day cycle.
The Orange is the New Black star, who is also the creator of the series, told The Hollywood Reporter that she feels the story can be told succinctly in three seasons.
“I see it quite concretely, and it will be interesting to see what evolves,” she said. “The beauty of the power of the writers room is that Alan (Charlie Barnett) was a very different character in the original pitch and pilot. Month two of the room is where he really came alive. Before then, he had been a whole variety of other figures and now, looking back, imagining that show without Alan is almost impossible.
“Because of that experience, I know there has to be space left open for something beyond my limited imagination in this moment to know if that is still where the series begins, middles and ends. Maybe it’s only two seasons. Maybe it’s four seasons. Right now, it feels quite clearly that it is those three.”
Netflix has already ordered a second season of the dramedy, and here’s hoping that a third is on the cards.
