Russian Doll is a comic delight – but do we really need a second season?

The first season of the Netflix drama delivered a perfect story arc. So why bring it back, and risk an attack of difficult-second-season syndromeIt is hard to be ecstatic at the news that Russian Doll has been renewed for a second season. Not because the first season of Russian Doll wasn’t good enough to deserve one. The Netflix series was an absolute delight; a comedy-drama that took a Groundhog Day-like premise – a woman, Nadia, dies over and over again on her 36th birthday –