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Horseshoe is maybe the perfect example of the way the East Village has evolved and remained the same. And Natasha ended up having a lot of fun writing to that idea.” “And so, we really played with that as much as possible. “I thought it would be really fun to visit these locations and revert them to their 1982 self,” production designer Diane Lederman says. The spaces haven’t changed all that much in this new set of episodes, but the time has. That feels apt for Horseshoe’s place in this season of Russian Doll, where Nadia has to navigate-in the body of her mother who is pregnant with her, no less-a world that is both static and altered. “I always like to say that I wish I could remember the first time I walked through the door, because I've just been here for so long,” she says.
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Visiting Hudson at the spot one rainy morning before opening I asked her what she saw as its place in the fabric of the neighborhood.
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It’s 7b, aka Horseshoe Bar, aka Vazacs, a staple of the East Village that figured prominently into Nadia’s first adventure, as well as nearly countless other TV shows and films including The Godfather Part II, The Verdict, and Jessica Jones. For Nicole Hudson, who inherited the bar from her grandfather and then father, the first time she remembers seeing her family’s institution on screen was in Crocodile Dundee. Fumbling around in her pockets for clues as to what the hell is going on she finds a matchbook for a bar called the Black Gumball. In the second season of Russian Doll, Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia Vulkov, having extricated herself from a time loop, takes the 6 train downtown and ends up in the 1980s.