If the premise of “Russian Doll” sounded familiar — a woman lives through the same night of her life, over and over and over again, to her frustration and eventual enlightenment — the actual show was anything but. This Netflix comedy series, which stars Natasha Lyonne as Nadia, the protagonist caught in an inexplicable time loop, and which she created with Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, was a heartfelt and idiosyncratic tribute to the uncertainties of middle age, to the East Village and to Lyonne’s own life, whose details are encrypted throughout the show.

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On Tuesday, “Russian Doll” received 13 Emmy Award nominations, including one for outstanding comedy series and one for Lyonne as lead actress in a comedy. It’s the second acting nomination for Lyonne, who was previously nominated as a guest actress on “Orange Is the New Black,” and who apparently cannot help but be herself in any conversation. Lyonne spoke by phone on Tuesday afternoon about “Russian Doll” and the growing community of female-created shows that it belongs to. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.

How are you?

[she begins to sing the “Entertainment Tonight” theme song] I really want to thank Leeza Gibbons. I’m not sure what’s happening. I’m gonna black out. The “Entertainment Tonight” theme song is playing, and it was almost the song we went with instead of Harry Nilsson as the restart song. It was really between the two. And “Gotta Go to Mo’s — Modell’s.” It was those songs, but we went with Harry Nilsson. That’s what we landed on in the edit. All those other songs were too expensive.

“Russian Doll” received 13 Emmy nominations today. That must be very exciting.

It’s bananas. It’s really insane. We’re still all going to die, is the revelation. Everybody on “Game of Thrones” — whoever didn’t die on the show is still going to die in real life. But hopefully not for a while. In the here and now, what a wonderful way to assess the hard work. And how nice. We worked so hard, I really thought that my brain was going to implode, and my soul. I really felt the weight, the albatross of making sure that that show would sing and communicate all things that I had hoped for. It was a heavy toll, and arriving on the other side with some sort of celebration is pretty extraordinary. It’s very affirming on a creative level, to keep plugging away.