Topic: Dostoevsky

Recap: Dostoyevsky’s Russian Dolls

Recap: Dostoyevskyâs Russian Dolls

As I turned the channel to Lifetime’s Russian Dolls Thursday at 11:30 PM, the ghost of Dostoyevsky entered my body. As his designated spiritual medium, I transcribed his impressions of the show. These are his words.

In last night’s episode “Tough Russian Love,” woman and man alike must question the tactility of love – whether it is a commodity to be controlled or an emotional prison of created by humanity. What does it mean to obtain love, what does it mean to give love? Is the ultimate price of love the surrender of one’s freewill? All this, and women of the night with candelabras fixed atop their weary heads. More »