In a few decades (if we still have genre entertainment) the idea of characters stuck in a time loop will be either completely forgotten, or one of those strangely long-lived subgenres that most people aren't familiar with the origin of, like "zombie apocalypse" or "people flying around inside giant robots." I've seen it done half a dozen times and you basically always get the same story beats, where the person accumulates a lot of information about people and has to repeat a series of actions to get toward whatever the goal is and make it all stop. Usually, unlike the original version in
Groundhog Day where the limit is the end of the day
or death, they just go with it being death (which kind of parallels how the zombie idea evolved from Romero: he had every dead person coming back and also it's contagious, but now it's usually just that it's contagious). And usually, unlike
Groundhog Day, there's some attempt to explain why this is happening other than "because you're a jerk and it's funny." And usually I just don't see the point, except for
Edge of Tomorrow which is great.
Anyway,
Russian Doll deceptively looks at first like just another one of these things.
( Read more... )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
