Russian Doll

Years ago I gave up any pretension of possessing an ability to critique anything coherently, but the new television series Russian Doll is pretty fucking Borgesian. It's seemingly very conscious too. An interview I've seen with one of the creators says she loves video games as a creative medium. It's well-known that video game creators lean heavy on Borges in their branching narratives. However, it's almost certain that Headland and/or Lyonne is directly acknowledging Borges with the mirrors and split timelines. There are too many other literary allusions. They didn't just stumble onto that, but are deft enough not to make a clumsy namecheck.

Speaking of namechecks though, it delights me that "Jodorowsky's Dune" is used as a password to a drug den.