{"id":90327,"date":"2022-04-24T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90327"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:24:35","slug":"russian-doll-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/04\/24\/russian-doll-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Doll Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong><em>Russian Doll<\/em><\/strong> came out in 2019, I was mesmerized.&nbsp; It was one of the most innovative, original, intelligent, provocative and hysterical things I\u2019d ever seen.&nbsp; That it co-starred my pal <strong>Elizabeth Ashley <\/strong>was the icing on the cake (and the reason I watched it in the first place).&nbsp; I was troubled when a second season was announced \u2013 how could it match this piece of perfection?&nbsp; Well, it doesn\u2019t.&nbsp; This second series is its own animal.&nbsp; Yes, many of the characters are the same, but it\u2019s really best seen as a separate entity.&nbsp; Like the first series, it takes a few episodes to get cooking, but in a completely different way.&nbsp; While I am not as enthusiastically praising it, <strong>Natasha Lyonne <\/strong>must be acknowledged as a brilliant \u2013 if not slightly psychotic \u2013 artist.&nbsp; Well, aren\u2019t we all?<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you watch this season of <em>Russian Doll<\/em>, you might recognize a familiar voice.&nbsp; Much of the series takes place in the New York City subway system.&nbsp; And the person making the announcements for upcoming stops is <strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>!&nbsp; Rosie has long expressed her affection for Lyonne, so it\u2019s not a surprise she took the role\u2026although it surprised Natasha!&nbsp; \u201cWe knew we wanted a real New York accent\u2026And so I texted Rosie, and she just would start sending me these little voice memos.&nbsp; It was very generous of her.\u201d&nbsp; Rosie will also be turning up in two other series: <em>Showtime<\/em>\u2019s <strong><em>American Gigolo<\/em><\/strong> and <em>Amazon Prime Video<\/em>\u2019s <strong><em>A League of Their Own<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; All this work probably softens the blow of not getting Mama Brice in <strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Jane Lynch <\/strong>got that part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Russian Doll came out in 2019, I was mesmerized.&nbsp; It was one of the most innovative, original, intelligent, provocative and hysterical things I\u2019d ever seen.&nbsp; That it co-starred my pal Elizabeth Ashley was the icing on the cake (and the reason I watched it in the first place).&nbsp; I was troubled when a second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90328,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90327\/revisions\/90328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}