#BRIDGET EVERETT SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE HOW TO#
If you wanna know how to fuck your life up, call me.” Instantly disarming and conversational, she deadpans, when the subject of dating someone from her native Kansas is broached, “Asking me for any advice about anything that’s gonna take you anywhere is a really bad idea. Just upstairs from Joe’s Pub - the intimate venue where the alt-cabaret star took off a number of years ago, and where she’s liable to pop up and reverse-motorboat someone in the audience or shred a Janis Joplin cover with Patti LuPone - she’s waiting cozily at the Library Bar. But the smallness of the stories helps capture the aimlessness Sam feels - noting that she and Joel are already in their forties, she suggests of their dreams, “It’s not going to happen, and it’s definitely not going to happen here” - while making the little victories and minor defeats ring out much more loudly than if Sam’s life were a nonstop thrill ride.Bridget Everett meets me on her turf. It makes the show an amusing stylistic counterpoint to the overcaffeinated, beautiful, teen-focused Euphoria, which is one of this series’ Sunday night lead-ins. Even Sam and Tricia’s attempt to get their father Ed (Mike Hagerty) to recognize that their alcoholic mother Mary Jo (Jane Brody) needs to go to rehab again is presented in muted fashion - the siblings know this likely won’t accomplish anything, but they want to try something. She hits it off with Joel, but perhaps at the expense of his relationship with his partner Michael (Jon Hudson Odom), and she resents the academic standardized test company where they both work.
We see Sam struggle to find common ground with Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison), and wage half-baked stakeouts of Tricia’s potentially adulterous husband Rick (Danny McCarthy). (And, for that matter, with many of the best episodes of High Maintenance, where Bos and Thureen previously wrote.) Very little happens over the course of the seven-episode season, but this is the point. The Duplass brothers’ previous HBO series, the terrific but short-lived Togetherness, also dealt with middle-aged disappointment, and shares a knock-around, lo-fi charm with its successor.
Somebody Somewhere was created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen and produced by Jay and Mark Duplass. She befriends former high-school classmate, Joel (Jeff Hiller), and confesses she never amounted to much “because I didn’t think I was any good.” When Joel asks what she’s referring to, she replies, “Everything.” She is in her forties, has never had any real direction, and only returned to her Kansas hometown to care for her other sister Holly as she died from cancer, then stayed for lack of a better plan. In the moment, Sam (Bridget Everett) acts offended by the question, but it’s one she privately asks herself all the time.
“What are you doing with your goddamn life?” Sam’s sister Tricia asks her in the first episode of the new HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere.
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