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* ControlFreak

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* ControlFreakControlFreak: For the first ten loops, he's actually happy with things as he feels like he can actually control his world, which he appreciates.
* {{Cuckold}}: Twice over. First, his girlfriend Beatrice has been sleeping with another man for months. Secondly, he watches as Nadia sleeps around, and preventing her from sleeping with Mike (again) is the crux of his final loop.



* BrutalHonesty: She appears to genuinely care for Nadia, but that doesn't mean she won't insult Nadia to her face. There's no ill-intent behind her words, and they're not ''wrong'' per se, but they can sting.



* DeadpanSnarker: She appears to genuinely care for Nadia, but that doesn't mean she won't insult Nadia to her face.

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* DeadpanSnarker: She appears to genuinely care for Nadia, but that doesn't mean she won't insult Nadia to her face.




* AmbiguouslyGay: It's unclear what Ruth and Lanora's relationship was, and Nadia wanting to stay with Ruth is implicitly framed like a child choosing between two parents in a divorce. She has no explicit love interests.



* YourCheatingHeart: Cheated on his wife and wanted to leave her for Nadia. Nadia wanted none of that, and he wound up destroying his life for a woman who didn't want him.



* CloudCuckoolander

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* CloudCuckoolanderCloudCuckoolander:



* JerkAss: Shamelessly sleeps with his students, even if they're in committed relationships.



* JerkAss: Shamelessly sleeps with his students, even if they're in committed relationships.



* YourCheatingHeart

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* YourCheatingHeartYourCheatingHeart: Beatrice seems to be his only actual relationship, and he'll still sleep with anything in a skirt.
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Nadia's cat, from the beginning of the series has been missing for three days. A combination of Nadia suddenly seeing him across the street, and not looking where she's going caused her first death.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold : A very small one but it is there, she ends up befriending Alan and she cares in her way of her friends.



* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization. The exact nature of it is never clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.He has symptoms of OCD and Aspergers. The exact nature of it is never clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Played with. She is a therapist and even explains why she believes that her profession is so important, but neither Nadia nor Alan are interested in therapy, despite clearly needing it.
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* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: Subverted. He tried to keep Nadia away from a drunken Alan in the final timeline, unaware that she was the only one capable of stopping him from committing suicide, but once he leaves Alan in his apartment, Nadia is free from his interference and is capable of interacting with Alan freely.

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* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Subverted. He tried to keep Nadia away from a drunken Alan in the final timeline, unaware that she was the only one capable of stopping him from committing suicide, but once he leaves Alan in his apartment, Nadia is free from his interference and is capable of interacting with Alan freely.
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* JerkAss: Shamelessly sleeps with his students.

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* JerkAss: Shamelessly sleeps with his students.students, even if they're in committed relationships.

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->''"I'm sorry for yelling, but I'm having a very difficult, never ending night!"''



* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization. The exact nature of it is never clarified, in part due to his fear of therapists confirming he is crazy.



* WalkingSpoiler

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* WalkingSpoilerWalkingSpoiler: The fact that there is a second person stuck in the time loop together with Nadia is a major spoiler and completely changes the series and Nadia's goal.


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->''"I like that you're a cunt, makes me feel morally superior."''


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->''"We do not use the word crazy in this house!"''


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* ParentsAsPeople: It seemed that Lanora truly loved Nadia, and invested on her future with everything she had, but her mental illness eventually took the best of her.


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!!John Reyes
!!!Played by: Yul Vazquez
A real estate agent and Nadia's ex-boyfriend. After their romance caused him to divorce his wife she broke up with him fearing things were getting too serious. He comes to the party trying to get back together with her.
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!!Ferran
!!!Played by: Ritesh Rajan
The owner of a grocery store that knows Nadia and is a close friend of Alan.
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* {{Foil}}: To Alan, in regards to relationships. In one timeline, he admits to also have dealt with infidelity in his current relationship, but he and his girlfriend worked through it and even went to couple's therapy and are still together after that. Alan and his girlfriend have broken up once and it was a total disaster because of the infidelity and he refuses to seek therapy.
* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: Subverted. He tried to keep Nadia away from a drunken Alan in the final timeline, unaware that she was the only one capable of stopping him from committing suicide, but once he leaves Alan in his apartment, Nadia is free from his interference and is capable of interacting with Alan freely.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the final timeline, Alan sends Beatrice a picture of Mike making out with Nadia, causing her to break up with him and tell his daughter what a JerkAss he is, after Alan had, in many timelines, mentioned how he never got any comeuppance for sleeping with his students and stealing his girlfriends.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the final timeline, Alan sends Beatrice a picture of Mike making out with Nadia, causing her to break up with him and tell his daughter son what a JerkAss he is, after Alan had, in many timelines, mentioned how he never got any comeuppance for sleeping with his students and stealing his girlfriends.

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Two people who were stuck in time by a strange cosmical event, repeating the same period of time over and over.



* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrongSetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The loop started because both could have saved each other's lives. If Alan wasn't drunk, he could have stopped Nadia from getting hit by a car and if Nadia wasn't pestering drunks, she could have stopped Alan from killing himself.



* PassedInHerSleep: In the timeline where she gets drunk and befriends Horse, they sleep on the street and end up freezing to death. When she wakes up, she is in front of the mirror and realizes that this happens.



* Cloudcuckoolander: At the start of the party she's cooking one chicken for dozens of people for no apparent reason, and she's surprised that her apartment has a fire escape.

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!!Maxine
!!!Played by: Greta Lee
Nadia's flighty friend who hosted the part for her. Despite their friendship, she and Nadia fight sometimes, but often make up as well.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: CloudCuckoolander: At the start of the party she's cooking one chicken for dozens of people for no apparent reason, and she's surprised that her apartment has a fire escape.



!!Lizzie
!!!Played by: Rebecca Henderson
One of Nadia's closest friends. An older indie artist who is dating a much younger woman.
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!!Ruth Brenner
!!!Played by: Elizabeth Ashley
A level headed therapist that raised Nadia when her mother was deemed unfit to do so. She serves as Nadia's mother figure and they have perhaps her healthiest relationship.



!!Lanora Vulvokov



Nadia's birth mother. A woman that Ruth described as brilliant but had a sickness in her mind. Her mental issues pushed her daughter away and caused her to be taken away by the government before being taken in by Ruth. Lanora died some time after Nadia stopped living with her.
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!!Beatrice
!!!Played by: Dascha Polanco
Alan's long time girlfriend, however, she fell out of love with him a long time ago and dumps him on the same night the loop starts.



!!Horse
!!!Played by:Brendan Sexton III
A strange homeless man that Nadia believes to have met before and has a strong desire to cut Nadia's hair, strangely holding very good hairdresser's tools.
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* CloudCuckoolander



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A literature professor with whom Beatrice cheated on Alan with.

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!!!Played by:
by: Jeremy Lowell Bobb
A literature professor with whom Beatrice cheated on Alan with. He is a sleazy man who made a habit out of sleeping with his students.
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*Cloudcuckoolander: At the start of the party she's cooking one chicken for dozens of people for no apparent reason, and she's surprised that her apartment has a fire escape.
*DeadpanSnarker: She appears to genuinely care for Nadia, but that doesn't mean she won't insult Nadia to her face.


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*CallToAgriculture: Despite her hedonistic lifestyle, she laments that she didn't go raise puppies upstate with an ex-girlfriend.
*ExtremeOmnisexual: In multiple loops, Nadia wakes up to see Lizzie in a pile of a half-dozen sleeping men and women, all of them half-naked and some of them with sex toys, uh, attached to them.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the final timeline, Alan sends a picture of Mike making out with Nadia, causing her to break up with him, after Alan had, in many timelines, mentioned how he never got any comeuppance for sleeping with his students and stealing his girlfriends.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the final timeline, Alan sends Beatrice a picture of Mike making out with Nadia, causing her to break up with him, him and tell his daughter what a JerkAss he is, after Alan had, in many timelines, mentioned how he never got any comeuppance for sleeping with his students and stealing his girlfriends.
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* DeathSeeker: She isn't consciously trying to get killed, but she takes a lot of drugs, has no problems with unprotected sex, doesn't particularly look where she's going and notes that she'll be impressed if she makes it to her low 70s. Turns out she will not make it a day past 36 unless she changes a few things about herself.
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* ImmuneToDrugs

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* ImmuneToDrugsImmuneToDrugs: Only Music/KeithRichards has taken more drugs than she has. At one point, she freaks out that a joint laced with ketamine rather than cocaine might be causing the loop, but she's reminded that she has taken that drug before.
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* MoralityPet
* ParentalSubstitute

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* MoralityPet
MoralityPet: Nadia sees her as the stable mother figure her biological mother never was.
* ParentalSubstituteParentalSubstitute: Became Nadia's legal guardian after her mother's mental illness made living with her untenable.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Spends much of his time getting into the pants of his students, including Alan's girlfriend Beatrice.
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* JerkAss: Shamelessly sleeps with his students.
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* KindheartedCatLover: Searching for her missing cat kicks off the death loop.
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* AccidentalMurder

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* AccidentalMurderAccidentalMurder: Accidentally shoots Nadia in one loop after mistaking her for a burglar.
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!!!Played by: Chloe Sevigny
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* PosthumousCharacter: Died sometime after Ruth became her legal guardian.

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* PosthumousCharacter: Died sometime after Ruth became her Nadia's legal guardian.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Died sometime after Ruth became her legal guardian.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: She suffered from an unspecified mental disorder. Her behavior, which includes irritability, buying large quantities of watermelons, and angrily smashing objects is suggestive of bipolar disorder.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast

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* DarkAndTroubledPastDarkAndTroubledPast: Grew up with a mother with an unspecified mental illness who died sometime after she was taken into CPS care.
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[[folder:Lorane]]

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[[folder:Lorane]][[folder:Lanora]]
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[[folder:Lizzie]]
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'''WARNING: Spoilers will not be tagged due to the show's nature.'''



!!Nadia Vulvokov
!!!Played by: Natasha Lyonne
A female software engineer who just turned 36. She is a snarker with a dark and hedonistic personality. Her sudden death traps her in a time loop at the time of her birthday.



* SourOutsideSadInside



!!Alan
!!!Played by: Charlie Barnett
A man with a compulsory need to control everything in his life. Recently dumped by his girlfriend, he has also died and was trapped into a continual loop together with Nadia.



* AmbiguousDisorder

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* AmbiguousDisorderAmbiguousDisorder: Beatrice has referred to Alan as having some sort of mental problem, due to his desperate need for cleanliness, control and organization.



* DrivenToSuicide

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* DrivenToSuicideDrivenToSuicide: Alan's first death was suicide. After getting extremely drunk and dumped by his girlfriend, he threw himself out of the top of his building.
* WalkingSpoiler



!!Michael "Mike"
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A literature professor with whom Beatrice cheated on Alan with.



* KarmaHoudiniWarranty

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* KarmaHoudiniWarrantyKarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the final timeline, Alan sends a picture of Mike making out with Nadia, causing her to break up with him, after Alan had, in many timelines, mentioned how he never got any comeuppance for sleeping with his students and stealing his girlfriends.
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!People Stuck in Time
[[folder:Both]]
->'''Alan:''' I die all the time.
->'''Nadia:''' Me too.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
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[[folder:Nadia]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast
* ImmuneToDrugs
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[[folder:Alan]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder
* ControlFreak
* DrivenToSuicide
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!Nadia's Circle
[[folder:Maxine]]
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[[folder:Ruth]]
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* AccidentalMurder
* MoralityPet
* ParentalSubstitute
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[[folder:Lorane]]
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[[folder:Oatmeal]]
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[[folder:John]]
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!Alan's Circle
[[folder:Beatrice]]
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* YourCheatingHeart
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!Others
[[folder:Horse]]
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[[folder:Mike]]
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty
* YourCheatingHeart
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