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Newsweek Europe
|December 27, 2024
THE MAJOR THING ABOUT NETFLIX'S NO GOOD DEED THAT APPEALED TO Ray Romano was that it was unlike anything he'd done before.
"I read about three scripts, and at the end of each there was a little twist, a little turn, [and] it was funny." The dramedy series follows families looking to buy a home owned by Paul and Lydia Morgan (Romano and Lisa Kudrow). "You can tell a person's good or bad, not from one incident, [but] from overall. We get to see that these are good people going through bad situations." The series uses comedic actors in sometimes-dramatic situations (yet still humorous). "You know both of us, Lisa and I, from sitcoms-her sitcom was much more well-known than ours, but we have our fans, too. If they allow us to show this other [heavier] side, I think it's very effective." Romano, who shot to fame with E
This story is from the December 27, 2024 edition of Newsweek Europe.
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