Somebody Somewhere
SEASON PREMIERE 10:30/9:30c, HBO
This offbeat comedy stars Bridget Everett as Sam, a woman struggling with doubt and self-worth while trying to make sense of her life after the death of a sister. The first season ended with Sam, who had moved back to her Kansas hometown, crooning two songs that captured the heartfelt series’ idiosyncratic spirit. In the first, she serenaded newfound bestie Joel (Jeff Hiller, above, with Everett)—inside a barn on her family’s farm—with an ode to how their friendship saved her. The second, belted out on a party bus, was brash and raunchy, like Everett’s real-life cabaret shows. In Season 2, Sam works on her relationship with other sister Trisha (Mary Catherine Garrison), but “longstanding resentments and secrets get in the way,” Everett says. Still,…
