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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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    Watching Russian Doll. I can tell it’s objectively good and a sort of refined Woody Allen style take on the Groundhog Day premise, but.... I suspect I may be too firmly middlebrow in my TV tastes to enjoy this.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted manav p thaker

        Got the tip yesterday. https://twitter.com/manavpthaker/status/1282497700093714433?s=21 …https://twitter.com/manavpthaker/status/1282497700093714433 …

        Venkatesh Rao added,

        manav p thaker @manavpthaker
        Replying to @vgr
        Good to know. I was thinking the "groundhogs day" type storylines were done after @RussianDoll did such a great job, but I'm looking forward to this.
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Nash

        Me too, but I think I like mine significantly more cartoony. https://twitter.com/nash/status/1282915393091362818?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Nash/status/1282915393091362818 …

        Venkatesh Rao added,

        Nash @Nash
        Replying to @vgr
        Russian Doll is great, I'm a huge fan of "temporal loop" stories
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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Shit, this once again proves I like my fiction very cartoonish. I think @niftynei was first to spot this. Rich and nuanced character development loses me. Trying to think of any non-cartoonish story with realistic characters that I’ve liked, and failing. Wonder what this means.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        The most complex fictional character I’ve ever liked is probably Pip from Great Expectations maybe? I can handle greater complexity, but only in impressionistic slices, like most other Dickens characters.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Also why I like twitter. You’re all basically cartoons on here. On twitter nobody can tell if you’re a cartoon irl.

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        I deny that I’m a cartoon irl

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Ok I’ll cop to it. I’m basically a small shell script. Lots of memory though.

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 13
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        Now that I think of it, most complex characters are not actually complex but channels for complex environments. Like these Russian Doll characters are all versions of “New York.”

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      10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 14
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        Update, finished first season with partial attention (mostly wife was watching, not me). Clever twist at the end, but overall not worth the investment for me.

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      1. Nash‏ @Nash Jul 13
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        Russian Doll is great, I'm a huge fan of "temporal loop" stories

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