Nadia Vulvokov

Nadia is a prickly software engineer celebrating her 36th birthday at a friend's party in New York's East Village, all cigarettes and cynicism and one-night-stand plans. Then she dies. And finds herself back at that same bathroom sink, the party still going, as if nothing happened at all.

Lyonne's gravel voice and unbothered swagger make Nadia funny even while unraveling, and the writing lets her be genuinely difficult—selfish, guarded, allergic to sentiment—without asking us to forgive her for it. Watching a woman this defended get forced, death after death, into actual self-examination is what makes the premise sing.”