No TV Show Deserves to Be a Hit More Than ‘Somebody Somewhere’

If you’ve yet to watch an episode of HBO’s wonderful Somebody Somewhere, I am extremely jealous of you. You have the experience of a lifetime to look forward to, should you choose to press play. But you also wouldn’t be alone in your hesitation. The half-hour-ish dramedy’s first season aired last year to rave reviews and a slew of awards nominations, but still flew under most people’s radars.

On paper, it doesn’t necessarily sound like much: a slice-of-life story, about a woman named Sam (Bridget Everett), who is trying to pick up the pieces after she moved back to her small Kansas hometown to take care of her terminally ill sister. That alone would be enough to turn off anyone looking for HBO-level stakes. Somebody Somewhere, which premieres its second season Sunday night, is a comedy without the dark humor of Barry, and a drama without the cutthroat narcissism of Succession.

In fact, it weaves between these two genres at such a quick—but completely undetectable—pace, that it’s hard to put it into a box at all. (Though it’s worth noting that it seems strategic that the network’s programmers would slot it as the before-bed comedown, following those two shows.)

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