BRINGING HER SONGS TO LIFE
Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
SERIES PREMIERE
Friday, Nov. 22, Netflix
“I’M JUST WORKING my little country butt off,” Dolly Parton says with a laugh. “Like that’s something new!” Over six decades, the performer with a heart of (rhinestone-encrusted) gold has churned out more than 70 Top 20 country hits—and now she’s turning some of them into plotlines for her new Netflix anthology, Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings.
“It’s a dream come true,” the spunky 73-year-old says of the eight-episode series. As a child growing up in Tennessee’s and its 2016 sequel, , she and collaborator Sam Haskell pitched Netflix a series of stand-alone installments, each based on one of her songs. They range from the 1880s-set Western “JJ Sneed,” about a young woman (Willa Fitzgerald) who finds adventure with the titular outlaw (Colin O’Donoghue), to “Jolene,” the portrait of a friendship between two women today: Jolene (Julianne Hough), a musician waiting tables at a honky-tonk, and Emily (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), a buttoned-up wife worried her marriage has become mundane.
