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Review: 'Russian Doll,' a beautiful puzzle of a series so good you'll watch it twice

"Russian Doll," which began streaming in its eight-episode entirety Friday on Netflix, is a beautiful puzzle piece, a circular, multiplane, existential mystery-comedy set in the villages of Lower Manhattan. Peopled with memorable characters large and small, it's a show that having watched once - not hard to do straight through and hard not to do straight through - you may want to watch again, to admire its machinery and joinery and find the clues you might have missed, but also because it feels just as good the second time around.

Natasha Lyonne, who co-created the series with Amy Poehler

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