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Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
This true-to-life comedy is how I fight off the Sunday Scaries — and you can stream it on Max
Some Sunday night HBO shows ramp up the tension — we're thinking post-apocalyptic thrillers like "The Last of Us," power-struggle satires like "Succession" and dragon-filled dramas like "Game of Thrones." But where those HBO series get your adrenaline pumping and your anxiety swelling, there's one dramedy in the network's elite Sunday night club that instead brings a sense of calm and community to your binge-watching habits: "Somebody Somewhere." Led by a hilarious and heartfelt Bridget Everett, the superb HBO comedy-drama recently capped off its third and final season in December 2024, a tender and acclaimed run that saw each season receive a perfect 100% approval rating from critics (per Rotten Tomatoes). Along the way, "Somebody Somewhere" had viewers falling for Everett's Sam Miller and her family — both chosen and otherwise — of Joel (Jeff Hiller), Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison) and Fred Rococo (Murray Hill). Even a half hour spent with this plucky crew out in Manhattan, Kansas, singing karaoke and joking around over French toast, will have you forgetting all about the morning meeting that's to come tomorrow. Here's why you should add "Somebody Somewhere" to your Sunday Scaries watch list. "Somebody Somewhere" centers on fortysomething Sam Miller (played by an Emmy-worthy Bridget Everett), "a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggling to fit the hometown mold," reads the official series logline, per HBO. As she returns to small-town Manhattan, KS, Sam grapples with loss and acceptance in the wake of the death of her sister, Holly. That is, until she finds solace in singing, which opens her up to "a community of outsiders who don't fit in but don't give us, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.' Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Along with Everett, the Peabody Award-winning comedy stars Jeff Hiller, Mary Catherine Garrison, Tim Bagley, Murray Hill, Jennifer Mudge, Mercedes White, Meighan Gerachis and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. Altogether, those lovable misfits explore life's beautiful and ugly moments with excess humor, refreshing honesty and plenty of hope. The HBO comedy — which recently nabbed two Emmy nominations for Jeff Hiller's sweet, soulful supporting role as Sam's BFF Joel as well as for Everett, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen's writing — was widely praised by critics throughout its three-season run for its tenderness, grace and warmth. (It aired on HBO from January 2022 to December 2024.) "'Somebody Somewhere' captures the bittersweet beauty of life in all its minutiae, never forgetting to laugh in the face of adversity," reads the critical consensus for the show's sophomore season, per Rotten Tomatoes. Coleman Spilde of The Daily Beast called the gorgeous drama "one of the decade's finest, thanks to its delightful ensemble cast and a knack for fleshing out life's minutiae, with gravity and irreverence in equal measure." "Somebody Somewhere" isn't like any show, anywhere — it's an engrossing and exceedingly special watch that will both reaffirm your humanity and transport viewers to somewhere a little kinder, a little funnier and a little gentler than your everyday. It's just what you need when you have a busy, stressful Monday morning looming in your near future. Watch "Somebody Somewhere" on Max
CBS News
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Bridget Everett on how she ended up as "Somebody Somewhere"
Bridget Everett will try to tell you she's not a celebrity in Manhattan, Kansas, but don't believe her. She did grow up here, one of six kids, so there's that. "I just love that it still feels like small-town America," she said. "I come back quite a bit and I visit the same spots." But it was when her HBO show "Somebody Somewhere" was set here in Manhattan, that Everett became a bon fide local legend. The show follows Sam Miller (played by Everett), who moves back to her hometown in her 40s, trying to figure out herself, and life, after the death of her sister. Everett was a writer, producer, and lead actor in the semi-autobiographical series. "I was like, 'Is anybody going to watch this? This is not a cool show!'" she said. "You know, like, it's about friendship. I'm not a top model, you know? I don't want to speak for anybody else in the cast! But I think that's exactly kind of why it works." Unlike her character on the show, who returns home to Manhattan, Kansas, Everett stayed in Manhattan, New York, for years, working mostly as a waitress and using, believe or not, karaoke as her main creative outlet. "My way of connecting with people is through singing," she said. "It kind of always has been, and it's easier for me to unlock and kind of be who I really want to be when I'm singing. Those karaoke performances led to her own, now-legendary cabaret shows at the famed Joe's Pub in New York. Everett's performances are sort of unlike anything you've seen, and so risqué we can't show you much of it here on "Sunday Morning." Everett said, "What's interesting to me is, like, learning about people, and why am I up there with no bra and a low-cut thing with everything flying around? It's part of who I am, and I also kind of do it to understand myself, honestly. I like to talk about my family in this way because my family and I don't talk about it. I don't see a mental health care professional!" And that's the amazing part: Everett's cabaret shows somehow end up being, in part anyway, a meditation on life and grief, including saying goodbye to her father, as well as the loss of her mother, sister, and her beloved dog, Poppy, whom she called the love of her life. "For a while I felt a little bit of shame saying that, because romantic love is kind of what most people aspire to," Everett said. "My life is driven in a different way. She just taught me how to love, and she just cracked my heart open in a way that, like, no other person could." In fact, it was this side of Everett that HBO and the show's creators wanted to highlight – the way we can feel both strong and broken, hopeless and hopeful, all in the same moment. Everett, who writes and performs multiple original songs on the show, says she got her love of music from her mother, Freddie. She also got her sense of humor from her mom, as well as her siblings, including Brock, Brian and Brad, who had given Bridget a piece of feedback: that her acting was improving. "I was being honest," Brad said. "Her acting, especially towards the end, I thought, was authentic. I even teared up on some of that, which is difficult to do when you know your sibling [is] acting. So, you need to separate who you know, and then see her in a character. And have it move you? I think it's a great compliment to her." "Thank you," said Bridget. "You could have just said that in a text." The HBO show features a number of Everett's actual friends and collaborators from New York, including Murray Hill, Mary Catherine Garrison, and, in a star turn, the just Emmy-nominated Jeff Hiller as her best friend, Joel. Though HBO chose not to renew "Somebody Somewhere" for a fourth season, it did win a prestigious Peabody Award, and also picked up an Emmy nomination this season for writing for a comedy series. Everett says the whole thing feels a little surreal: the journey from being somebody somewhere, to somebody who is right where she's supposed to be. "Nothing will ever match this, and it couldn't, but that's okay," she said. "A lot of people don't get the opportunity to have a TV show, to live a life beyond their wildest dreams. And then to get to do it with the people I love? It's why it's taken so long for me to move on and kind of let go. But now I'm just trying to celebrate that I got to do it at all." For more info: Story produced by Aria Shavelson. Editor: Lauren Barnello.
Indian Express
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Emmy nominations 2025: Here's the full list
Emmy 2025: Outstanding Drama Series nomination Andor, The Diplomat, The Last of Us, Paradise, The Pitt, Severance, Slow Horses, The White Lotus Emmy 2025: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series nomination Sterling K. Brown, Paradise; Gary Oldman, Slow Horses; Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us; Adam Scott, Severance; Noah Wyle, The Pitt Emmy 2025: Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series nomination Adolescence Black Mirror Dying For Sex Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story The Penguin Emmy 2025: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination Ike Barinholtz, The Studio Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons Harrison Ford, Shrinking Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear Michael Urie, Shrinking Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live Emmy 2025: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story Bill Camp, Presumed Innocent Owen Cooper, Adolescence Rob Delaney, Dying For Sex Peter Sarsgaard, Presumed Innocent Ashley Walters, Adolescence Emmy 2025: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series nomination Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson Hacks, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton, and Eric Notarnicola, Somebody Somewhere, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Bridget Everett, The Studio, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez, What We Do in the Shadows, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Paul Simms, Emmy 2025: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series nomination Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (for episode "Napkins') Lucia Aniello, Hacks (for episode "A Slippery Slope") James Burrows, Mid-Century Modern (for episode "Here's To You, Mrs. Schneiderman") Nathan Felder, The Rehearsal (for episode "Pilot's Code") Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, The Studio (for episode "The Oner") Emmy 2025: Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination Philip Barantini, Adolescence Shannon Murphy, Dying For Sex (for episode "It's Not That Serious") Helen Shaver, The Penguin (for episode "Cent'anni") Jennifer Getzinger, The Penguin (for episode "A Great or Little Thing") Nicole Kassell, Sirens (for episode "Exile") Lesli Linka Glatter, Zero Day 5 must-watch Hollywood films releasing in May 2025
Miami Herald
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Q&A: Jeff Hiller of ‘Somebody Somewhere' on his surprise Emmy nomination: ‘I was truly shocked'
LOS ANGELES - File Jeff Hiller's Emmy nomination- his first ever - for supporting actor in a comedy under 2025's major surprises column. His portrayal of supportive bestie Joel to Bridget Everett's Sam on "Somebody Somewhere" indeed ranks as one of the year's best performances, but the nuanced comedy and its eclectic cast were considered long shots against actors from "The Bear," "Only Murders in the Building" and "Abbott Elementary." The Peabody Award-winning series, which concluded this year with its third season, followed a group of outsiders - gay and straight - as they navigated friendship, faith and questions of self in a small, rural Kansas town. Like Hiller, Joel is gay and grew up heavily involved in the Christian church. When the Television Academy announced its list of nominees Tuesday morning, Hiller was anything but ready to hear his name called alongside Harrison Ford ("Shrinking"), Ebon Moss-Bachrach ("The Bear") and Colman Domingo ("The Four Seasons.") He spoke to The Times, in an interview edited for clarity and length, shortly after learning he was nominated. Q: Were you poised and waiting for the announcements this morning, or were you just like, yeah, it's not going to happen? A: I must tell you, without any sort of posturing or false humility, this is a surprise. I mean, it's Season 3. I said to my husband, "The Emmy noms are coming out so I guess at some point someone's going to be like, 'Somebody Somewhere' was snubbed." I had moved on. Then I was on the phone with my sister and I was like, "My agent keeps calling me. What is he calling me for? Did I get that recurring role on that Fox pilot?" It was so shocking. I kind of had forgotten that it was happening. I know that this sounds so fake, but I truly was shocked. Q: And to be noticed for such a wonderfully singular show and role. There's nothing else like "Somebody Somewhere," or a character like Joel, on television. A: I know and he was a lot like me. I took this dumb acting class on how to get to be a series regular on a TV show, and this is like 15 years into my acting career. In this class they were like, they were like, "You won't get a series regular role unless you're a lot like the character." And I was like, "Oh crap! Nobody writes characters like me." Let me just say that I'm fully aware of how lucky I was that this role came to me and I'm so grateful to Bridget and co-creators Hannah [Bos] and Paul [Thureen] because you're right. There's nothing like [the show or him] out there and to get to do a fully realized character and be gay but also be in the church - it's complicated. It takes a lot of work and exposition to get across a character this nuanced. I'm so grateful that they wrote that and then I got to play it, and that they didn't cast, you know, Michael Urie. I would have cast him. Q: Do you miss Joel? A: Oh yeah, I do. It's over a year ago that we shot Season 3, so I miss the crew and the gift of being able to play him. I know that all this sounds so cheesy and hack and stuff, [like other Emmy quotes] I read in articles, but I guess it was all true when they were saying it. Q: And where are you right now? A: I am at Gate 95 at LaGuardia Airport. I have this credit card that I pay an extremely high fee on so that I can get into the lounge, but the line is too long so I'm just waiting at the gate until 3:40 because the flight got delayed. Q: You were just nominated for an Emmy! Don't they know who you are? A: They have made it very clear they do not know who I am. Q: So what's next? A: I'm very excited just to be able to go to the [Emmy] party. I've never gotten to go to a party like this. I'm going to wear something really gay. It's going to be great. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Los Angeles Times
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Jeff Hiller of ‘Somebody Somewhere' on his surprise Emmy nomination: ‘I was truly shocked'
File Jeff Hiller's Emmy nomination — his first ever — for supporting actor in a comedy under 2025's major surprises column. His portrayal of supportive bestie Joel to Bridget Everett's Sam on 'Somebody Somewhere' indeed ranks as one of the year's best performances, but the nuanced comedy and it's eclectic cast were considered long shots against actors from 'The Bear,' 'Only Murders in the Building' and 'Abbott Elementary.' The Peabody Award winning series, which concluded this year with its third season, followed a group of outsiders — gay and straight — as they navigated friendship, faith and questions of self in a small, rural Kansas town. Like Hiller, Joel is gay and grew up heavily involved in the Christian church. When the Academy announced its list of nominees Tuesday morning, Hiller was anything but ready to hear his name called alongside Harrison Ford ('Shrinking'), Ebon Moss-Bachrach ('The Bear') and Colman Domingo ('The Four Seasons.') He spoke to The Times, in an interview edited for clarity and length, shortly after learning he was nominated. Were you poised and waiting for the announcements this morning, or were you just like, yeah, it's not going to happen? I must tell you, without any sort of posturing or false humility, this is a surprise. I mean, it's Season 3. I said to my husband, 'The Emmy noms are coming out so I guess at some point someone's going to be like, 'Somebody Somewhere' was snubbed.' I had moved on. Then I was on the phone with my sister and I was like, 'My agent keeps calling me. What is he calling me for? Did I get that recurring role on that Fox pilot?' It was so shocking. I kind of had forgotten that it was happening. I know that this sounds so fake, but I truly was shocked. And to be noticed for such a wonderfully singular show and role. There's nothing else like 'Somebody Somewhere,' or a character like Joel, on television. I know and he was a lot like me. I took this dumb acting class on how to get to be a series regular on a TV show, and this is like 15 years into my acting career. In this class they were like, they were like, 'You won't get a series regular role unless you're a lot like the character.' And I was like, 'Oh crap! Nobody writes characters like me.' Let me just say that I'm fully aware of how lucky I was that this role came to me and I'm so grateful to Bridget and co-creators Hannah [Bos] and Paul [Thureen] because you're right. There's nothing like [the show or him] out there and to get to do a fully realized character and be gay but also be in the church— it's complicated. It takes a lot of work and exposition to get across a character this nuanced. I'm so grateful that they wrote that and then I got to play it, and that they didn't cast, you know, Michael Urie. I would have cast him. Do you miss Joel? Oh yeah, I do. It's over a year ago that we shot Season 3, so I miss the crew and the gift of being able to play him. I know that all this sounds so cheesy and hack and stuff, [like other Emmy quotes] I read in articles, but I guess it was all true when they were saying it. And where are you right now? I am at gate 95 at LaGuardia Airport. I have this credit card that I pay an extremely high fee on so that I can get into the lounge, but the line is too long so I'm just waiting at the gate until 3:40 because the flight got delayed. You were just nominated for an Emmy! Don't they know who you are? They have made it very clear they do not know who I am. So what's next? I'm very excited just to be able to go to the [Emmy] party. I've never gotten to go to a party like this. I'm going to wear something really gay. It's going to be great.
