History Series / RussianDoll

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Nadia's mother suffered from some sort of mental illness that made her combative, emotionally fragile, and obsessed with eating only watermelons.
** What exactly Alan has is never explicitly stated, but what's clear is that there's something seriously wrong.

* GenerationalTrauma: Nadia is a troubled woman with self-destructive tendencies who ends up in a GroundhogDayLoop after dying on her 36th birthday. In the process of getting out of the loop, she's forced the confront the impact that her mother's mental illness and suicide had on her life. In the first season, it's hinted that all these issues ultimately stem from her grandparents' trauma and paranoia after [[GenocideSurvivor surviving the Holocaust]]. This is elaborated on further in the second season when Nadia is able to time travel by taking over her mother's and grandmother's bodies. She desperately tries to alter to past to change her family's fate, [[spoiler: only to realize that her actions created a StableTimeLoop]].

''Russian Doll'' is a 2019 half-hour {{dramedy}} Netflix Original on Creator/{{Netflix}}. It stars Creator/NatashaLyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, and Elizabeth Ashley. It was created by Natasha Lyonne, Creator/LeslyeHeadland, and Creator/AmyPoehler.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Nadia and Alan, but in different ways. Nadia is a Jerkass to everyone around her, and Alan has some sort of mental disorder that makes him get upset really quickly if he's not reassured that everything is fine.

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: [[spoiler: Not actually due to Nadia meeting her baby self, but rather her ''time travelling with the baby''.]]

* TheBigRottenApple: New York is portrayed as a big city filled with innatentive drivers, selfish people and beggars who [[spoiler: occasionally freeze to death.]] In season 2, the subway is portrayed as dirty, [[spoiler: and with robbers that will steal your belongings, along with bystanders that don't care about a pregnant woman's plight.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: A twist on the standard trope. The loop doesn't have a set time limit, but it resets every time Nadia (and Alan) die, and they become extremely death prone, so that they never make past one day beyond the reset point. As they continue making resets, the world slowly degenerates, providing an implied [[RaceAgainstTheClock ticking clock]] to break out of the loop. Notably, no one ''ever'' mentions the time-loop similarity to the movie, even Nadia, who at one point proves to be pop-culturally aware enough to compare herself to Michael Douglas's character in ''Film/TheGame1997''.

** In season 2, Nadia refers to her [[time travel as ''Series/QuantumLeap''ing]].