Bridget Everett logged on to Zoom at 2 p.m. on February 2, 2022. Her HBO present, Someone Someplace, had debuted a couple of weeks prior, and the half-hour dramedy a couple of cynic’s midlife disaster in rural Kansas was constructing a modest however impassioned viewers. Everett and cocreators Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen didn’t know whether or not the community would greenlight a second season—“It’s not doing Euphoria numbers by any stretch,” Everett says—however they have been assembly with an govt to pitch potential story traces anyway.
For these of us falling in love with Someone Someplace because it aired, the identical fear had sunk in: This mild hug of a present was too area of interest, too pretty. It could by no means get the shelf life it deserved. However when Everett and her collaborators ready to start out their brainstorm, Amy Gravitt, HBO’s comedy chief, assuaged everybody’s fears. “Earlier than you guys start,” she stated, per Everett, “I simply don’t wish to talk about this in hypotheticals. Since you’re getting a season two!” The Zoom session erupted into celebration. So, too, did the collection’ admirers when HBO introduced the renewal to the general public the subsequent day.
Someone Someplace, which grew in cult standing over the course of 2022, because of word-of-mouth buzz and a spot on the American Movie Institute’s listing of the yr’s 10 greatest reveals, will return to HBO on April 23. Self-importance Truthful has the unique first have a look at the brand new episodes.
If season one was about Sam (Everett) grieving the loss of life of her sister, the one particular person she felt understood her, then season two is about her transferring past that grief. She’s deepening her friendship with rosy former classmate Joel (Jeff Hiller), growing a renewed connection to her different sister (Mary Catherine Garrison), and dealing with a warmhearted singing trainer (Barbara Robertson) who conjures in Sam feelings she’s by no means identified how one can specific.
“We’re opening her up a bit,” Bos says. “She’s actually tapping into issues she hasn’t tapped into in years, and he or she’s discovering slightly little bit of confidence…A little bit of season two is now she’s coping with this large factor, which is: Is she worthy of affection? This relationship with Joel, it’s a giant relationship for her—as a result of he not solely calls her out on her shit, however he additionally encourages her. Typically, with greatest associates, you latch on to one another. You’re keen on somebody a lot they train you to like your self. After which there are at all times penalties with these sorts of relationships, as a result of they’re so heightened.”
Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller in “Someone Someplace.”By Marian Wyse/HBO.
