Still enamored with Sam’s singing from their student days, Joel pushes her to take part in a local underground night of entertainment, called Choir Practice.
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That’s pretty much the state of things until Sam is befriended by her co-worker Joel (Jeff Hiller), a former high school classmate and fellow show choir enthusiast. Her mother, father and surviving sister - played with a skillful combination of tragedy and comedy by Jane Brody, Mike Hagerty and Mary Catherine Garrison - are too busy avoiding their grief, and a whole host of other problems, to offer Sam solace. No longer a caretaker, she spends most of her time looking despondent, sleeping on the couch in Holly’s empty home and working at a drab local testing center. In “Somebody Somewhere,” Sam Miller (Everett) is in a state of limbo after having moved back to her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, to care for her dying sister and best friend, Holly, who has since succumbed to cancer.
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Billed as a “coming-of-middle-age story,” the series is chock-full of existential dread, nostalgia and comic relief, perfectly suited to what has been a disorienting, sometimes laughable time warp of the past two years. While it may be hard to imagine the larger-than-life performer ever losing her voice, her candidness - combined with wit, self-deprecation and, of course, talent - is part of what makes her, and the show, so charming. “Losing your voice, feeling like you’re rudderless through life, giving up on yourself - those are all things that hit close to the bone,” Everett told NBC News. While the show is fictionalized, she said the themes - including the loss of her sister Briton to cancer - pull from her upbringing. She has been developing “Somebody Somewhere,” along with co-producer Carolyn Strauss, since series creators Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen pitched her the idea in 2018. And in recent years, she’s charmed the rest of the country in small and big screen roles, on comedy series such as Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer” and HBO’s “Camping,” as well as a dramatic turn in the Sundance hit “Patti Cake$.” Danny McCarthy and Bridget Everett in HBO's "Somebody Somewhere." HBO If you’re somebody who feels like you’re a little too much or you’re a little too big - and you never fit the hometown mold - what would it be like to go home?” she said of signing on to do the HBO series.Įverett, 49, has long been a fixture of Manhattan’s nightclub scene, making a name for herself by performing alt-cabaret and raunchy original songs at iconic institutions like Joe’s Pub.
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“I thought it was really interesting to think about what it might be like for somebody like Bridget Everett who doesn’t go to New York but stays home.