But watching the new HBO Max series “Somebody Somewhere” made me wonder if that sort of “our life, but safer” approach to the television half-hour comedy is necessary, or even a good thing. The show, which stars comedian Bridget Everett as a kind of aimless and angry single middle-aged woman living in Manhattan, Kan., and Jeff Hiller as the awkwardly sweet gay man who befriends her, is absolute in its refusal to make its characters in any way better than real life. You know that time you stopped at a diner on a family vacation? The cast of “Somebody” is basically everyone you saw there—short and tall, heavier-set and wire-thin, well-dressed and sloppy.
The misfits of HBO Max’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ are the kind of loving community we go to church looking for | America Magazine
The misfits of HBO Max’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ are the kind of loving community we go to church looking for | America Magazine