Russian Doll Season 2 Ending Explained (In Detail)

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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Russian Doll season 2.

Here's everything that happened in the Russian Doll season 2 finale, and what it truly means. In Russian Doll season 2, Netflix's existential sci-fi dramedy brought Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan Zaveri (Charlie Barnett) back to the forefront. Except this time, instead of being stuck in a Groundhog Day-style time loop as and reliving their deaths as in Russian Doll season 1, Nadia and Alan get to travel the timeline back to embody their female ancestors. This proves to be just as hellish an experience as inescapable death, but it doesn't come without valuable life lessons for both Nadia and Alan. The season 2 finale seems to emphasize this, albeit via many confusing layers.

In Russian Doll season 2, episode 1, Nadia discovers that the 6 Train can take her all the way back to 1982 and let her inhabit her mother Nora's (Chloë Sevigny) body. Nadia finds that she is now pregnant with herself and in charge of Nora's decisions. This prompts Nadia to attempt to rewrite her past, patch up Nora's relationship with her own mother, Vera (Irén Bordán), and return the stolen family goods: the family heirlooms stolen by the Nazis and Vera's prized possessions, Russian Doll's Krugerrands. But anything she does becomes the cause of what she knew already happened. Meanwhile, Alan takes a trip to East Berlin in 1962 and inhabits the body of his grandmother Agnes (Carolyn Michelle Smith). He initially enjoys the opportunity, but as Nadia prompts him to be an agent of change, he also gets frustrated with his inability to save Agnes' relationship with Lenny (Sandor Funtek), or potentially even Lenny himself.

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