“We tried to allow time and space to discover things and to make it work on the fly,” Bos says. The cast also had the freedom to go beyond the script. My siblings and I laughed a lot at my father’s funeral.”īridget Everett (top right) with "Somebody Somewhere" showrunners Paul Thureen (top left), Hannah Bos (bottom left), and executive producer and director Jay Duplass. “The laughter is the little buoys in the ocean that keep you going. “Like most people I’ve had a lot of grief and loss and self-doubt, but that doesn’t mean I don’t laugh,” Everett says. “And Bridget and Jeff have that thing where they are just people who make each other laugh, so the tone of their scenes is that this is a fun world to be in.”Īnd fun could be had even when things go awry. Hiller adds that the emphasis is always on “real-life humor,” not quips: “Even scenes played for humor should play the way a real person would play a moment for humor with their friends.”īy staying focused on the characters “we could find the humor in the bonkers-ness of reality,” Thureen adds. “They’re all part of my life and part of the show.” “I have sweet friendships and I have friends who I can be nasty and disgusting with, and with my family the humor’s often cutting and below the belt,” Everett says. (And then there are the sometimes angry, sometimes poignant scenes with her mother in rehab that forgo laughter completely.) The show’s laughs come in all shapes and sizes: There are moments of cringe humor and gross-out humor - when Sam tells her other sister, Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison), bad news, Tricia starts gagging, which sends Sam on a vomiting spree - and even scenes aiming at sweet smiles, as when Sam apologizes to Joel for being mean to him and ends up having to Zumba with him as part of her apology. Instead of a joke on the page, the show is about how the experience of life is funny.”īridget Everett and Jeff Hiller in "Somebody Somewhere." Courtesy of HBO “I was not interested in doing a show filled with setups and jokes. “We want to incorporate humor when possible - this is from the HBO comedy department - but it’s more that it happens to be funny because life is funny,” Everett says. The show is about characters coping with loss, depression, and social anxiety - as well as bigotry and small-mindedness and family dysfunction in ways that just happen to be very funny. But she meets Joel, who is a joy to be around and who will not give up on her.” “When we start, her sister’s dead, she has a job she doesn’t like, and she’s given up. “Her sister was her best friend and her last tether to living,” Everett says. It’s through Joel that Sam begins singing again, literally and metaphorically finding her voice. Sam, who had returned home to care for Holly before she died, finds a new friend, Joel (Jeff Hiller), who introduces her to his loving community of small-town misfits and who lifts her up with his perpetual hopefulness. When the series opens, Everett’s character, Sam Miller, has barely been muddling through daily existence, battling depression brought on by the death of her sister Holly.
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