“Russian Doll” is an edgy take on the Groundhog Day conundrum - a woman who keeps dying on her birthday in spite of her best efforts to survive, instead of merely re-living the same day. I was watching with Closed Captioning and this quote jumped out. Unfortunately, taking a screen shot on my MacBook couldn’t grab the picture, just the quote. But the sentiment is worth sharing, even if I had to visually bleep out the language.
“Alan, the only reason to go into the past is to change s*#t, all right?”
Creator/writer/director and star Natasha Lyonne knows, as she navigates multiple timelines in Season 2! This syncs beautifully with a quote from a NY Times article by physicist Michio Kaku titled, “IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE, ANOTHER YOU”:
In the quest to meld two opposing perspectives of the universe, we’re left with a host of deeply unsettling questions. Might we also exist in multiple states? What might we be doing if we had chosen a different career? Married someone else? What if we could somehow change important episodes in our past? As Einstein once wrote, “The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Michio, the only reason to go into the past is to change s@#t, all right?
In an interview Creator Mike Judge weighs in on his new movie “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe” where the eternal teenagers journey into the multiverse:
Without giving too much away, Judge teased that fans of the Beavis and Butt-Head universe will find some surprises in this new film. “There’s a [scene] where every version of you exists in an infinite universe and the smartest version of [Beavis and Butt-Head] comes into play and that was really fun to do, so was the middle-aged versions of them,” he explained.