Awkwafina and Bowen Yang Meet Horses and an Elfin Lea DeLaria When Nora Goes to Iceland

The hilarious Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens is back for its third season. And post-pandemic, the titular Nora and her cousin Edmund (Bowen Yang) are in search of something bigger than themselves. While Edmund, who's currently starring in a gay-themed Law & Order spin-off, seeks family in Iceland after DNA testing that led him to believe he has Icelandic heritage. Meanwhile, Nora has been stuck in a dead-end convenience store job where she's as aimless as ever. While in Iceland for a little change of scenery and to support Edmund, she has a mind-blowing encounter with a lesbian elf played by Orange Is the New Black's Lea DeLaria.

"Where we find Nora is I think she's one step out of this, kind of like, I don't want to say, vapid, maybe trivial pursuit of like millennial things of...a good job, you know, a nice car, things like that. And she's now entering this territory of kind of the other things that are going to actually make [her] feel like a good person — that is making sure [her] family is okay. And that is making sure that [she's] making good decisions?" Awkwafina told the Advocate Channel about the new season.

Nora From Queens is inherently queer with Yang playing a bisexual character and Nora's fluid attraction, queer visibility is taken very seriously in the series, even when Nora and a lesbian elf are up to some hilarious, if not, implausible shenanigans.

"The fluidity part is something that I really always wanted [the show] to have, and especially when casting certain roles. For instance, the decision to cast Bowen as Edmund. That role originally was originally written for a very heterosexual kind of finance bro, and the way that Bowen played it was such a cool take on what I considered a very trophy character," Awkwafina says.

"Nora is just down, you know what I mean?" Awkwafina adds.

Watch the clip of Nora and Edmund in Iceland below.