Russian Netflix Users Sue Streamer For Loss of Service

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticPretend it was one year ago, when the streaming revolution, stoked by the pandemic (when is a pandemic good for business? When your business depends on people staying home), was feeling the first flush of being the New Paradigm That Ate The World. And pretend, in that spring of 2021, that you’d been asked to imagine how a film industry headline from the future might read.

Russian Doll stars Natasha Lyonne and Charlie Barnett have opened up about season two’s ending.The Netflix series returned last week for its long-awaited second outing, this time seeing Nadia Vulvokov (Lyonne) travelling back in time as she finds herself in the body of her mother (Chloë Sevigny).In the final episode, Nadia – having given birth to herself – steals the baby version of herself, collapsing time and finding herself in familiar series locations such as the birthday party in season one and the Yeshiva school that previously served as a location on the show.Nadia eventually returns the baby after pleadings from Alan (Charlie Barnett) and a number of Ruths – and Lyonne has now cleared up any confusion over whether Ruth is dead despite this appearance, confirming that she passed away “in that space between episode six and seven”.“Time is what gives life its order,” she explained to Entertainment Weekly. “And its meaning, on some level, is that it is finite.“These are ideas that are well-explored, but I think that Nadia is so hard-headed — or wants so badly to be able to affect some kind of change, or fix things — and in trying to rearrange the past, there is a karmic consequence wherein she misses that present moment.”The finale also sees Nadia and Alan find themselves in ‘the Void’ after getting hit by another train, having to face their demons and learn lessons to resolve them.“Season one was about breaking through these boundaries of death.

Lyonne), an eccentric New York woman who was caught in a time loop, repeating the day of her 36th birthday, often dying — by getting hit by a car, or in one memorably horrifying episode, falling into a sidewalk cellar door — before waking up that same morning. Her path crossed with Alan (Charlie Barnett), a depressed man who was also stuck in a time loop, and they realized they had to help each other.

Lily Moayeri If you weren’t familiar with Harry Nilsson before the first season of Netflix’s “Russian Doll,” you certainly knew his song “Gotta Get Up” after it recurred on all eight of the show’s episodes — every time Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia repeatedly reawakens on the same night after dying in different ways. The second season of the series, now streaming on Netflix, doesn’t have a specific tethering song, but it serves up some choice cuts from the ’70s and ’80s, including Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” Falco’s “Der Kommissar,” Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With the Devil” and Nena’s “99 Luftballons.”These needle drops are apropos considering the central theme of the new season is time travel — whenever Nadia takes the subway. “We wanted the music to feel authentic and line up with the eras,” says Brienne Rose, music supervisor for “Russian Doll,” co-created and co-written by Lyonne.

Big news for Charlie Barnett – he’s getting married!

Streaming giant Netflix made massive headlines this week when the company revealed in a quarterly earnings report that they lost 200,000 subscribers and their stock subsequently plummeted (apparently the company lost 700,000 subscribers when they cut off service to Russia, but obviously made up some of that number in new subscribers). Additionally, after indicating last month they weren’t going to change their model, in the wake of this stock crash, the streaming service announced they’ll be introducing a lower-cost subscriber option that will be ad-supported.

If you're still watching Netflix on your ex's roommate's account, that access may not last much longer: Netflix is considering cracking down on password sharing, according to a report from the Associated Press. The streaming platform may also add a new, lower-cost subscription tier supported by ads, similar to its rival Hulu's.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMedia companies both old and new had pinned their hopes on riding a wave of interest in streaming well into the future. Now they are finding that there may be only so far the new technology can go.Netflix’ disclosure on Tuesday that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter and expects to lose 2 million more in months to come, has set the industry on edge — not because Netflix is a barometer of entertainment-sector health, but because it is furthest along the path that rivals ranging from Apple to Warner Bros.

Natasha Lyonne, co-creator/executive producer Amy Poehler and cast member Chloe Sevigny spoke about the pressures of living up to expectations from the groundbreaking first season.«Having never been a musician, I can only imagine that it's similar to a sophomore album,» Lyonne told ET during the New York premiere on Tuesday night. «I guess it's healthy for getting it done.

Netflix, seen as the big dog in the streaming wars, just saw 200,000 people cancel their subscriptions as announced by the company. The streaming giant recently closed up shop in Russia due to the country’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, following multiple other western companies including fellow streamers who ceased operating there.

Series one of Russian Doll was met with great reviews and high praise from critics, and fans will be glad to learn that the show’s second season is due to land on Netflix soon. The sci-fi/comedy-drama stars Charlie Barnett as Alan and Natasha Lyonne as Nadia.

Netflix stock is tanking because the “woke mind virus” has made its programming “unwatchable.”Netflix stock took a 25% nosedive this week after reporting its first loss of subscribers in a decade, according to its first-quarter earning report released Tuesday. The stock plunged about 24% in after-hours trading as investors were alarmed by the unexpected loss of customers, and a projection by Netflix that much more is in store.Subscriber losses were blamed on a host of things — widespread password sharing, inflation, the loss of 700,000 accounts disabled in Russia, to name a few — but the Tesla and SpaceX founder, who wants to add “Twitter owner” to his long resume — had a much simpler theory: Netflix’s “woke” programming is turning people off in droves.“The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable,” Musk tweeted in response to a report on the stock dip.The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchableTo be fair, Musk indicated that the ideological contagion theory applies to more than just the world’s largest streaming service.

Netflix has lost subscribers for the first time in 10 years, causing the platform to limit password sharing and create a cheaper subscription funded by adverts.

Natasha Lyonne and Chloe Sevigny step out in their stunning looks for the season two premiere of Russian Doll held at The Bowery Hotel on Tuesday night (April 19) in New York City.

option to pay to share Netflix outside of your own household. And they suggested to subscribers that they’ll be looking for ways to better “monetize sharing,” or crack down on people who obtain Netflix primarily through sharing accounts.

Netflix series, “Russian Doll,” which premieres April 20.“I’ve obviously had a very checkered past, to say the least, and I’ve been very open about it,” she told The Post in her signature sandpaper voice. “And it’s like along the way you’re supposed to kinda go digging for some other meaning to life other than self-destruction.”Discussing her high-profile struggle with drug addiction in the early aughts, she told The Post, “I don’t think you can take Hitler out of the equation, the way I moved through my teenage years especially.