HBO‘s description for the third and final season of Somebody Somewhere is brief: “In season three, we see growth against all odds.” A trailer for the show suggests the source of some of those long odds.
In the trailer (watch it below), Sam (Bridget Everett) is faced with some changes in her life as Joel (Jeff Hiller), whom she’s been living with, gets an offer on his house and prepares to move, while she continues trying to figure out what she wants from her life: “I don’t really know what I’m doing,” Sam says at one point in the trailer, followed by a plaintive question: “What’s wrong with wanting a little bit more?”
There are, of course, a number of jokes in the trailer — Somebody Somewhere is a comedy series, even if it’s not a setup-punchline factory — along with the show’s characteristic open-hearted warmth toward its characters. The trailer’s music track, the Faces’ “Ooh La La,” helps underscore the latter point.
HBO announced in August that it would end the critically acclaimed Somebody Somewhere with season three. Everett, who’s also a writer and executive producer of the series, told The Hollywood Reporter earlier in the year that she’s received praise from people in Manhattan, Kansas — her hometown and the setting for the series — for portraying life in a small city with care.
“At different points somebody who runs queer studies at Kansas State and the head basketball coach came over to tell me they liked the show,” Everett said. “I found it very satisfying that people from such different walks of life could see themselves in the show and respond well to it. You don’t want your hometown to turn on you and think you’re a big turkey.”
Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen created Somebody Somewhere. They executive produce with Everett, Carolyn Strauss (via her Mighty Mint banner); Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn of Duplass Brothers Productions; and Tyler Romary. Shuli Harel produces. Season three’s writers are Bos and Thureen, Everett, Lisa Kron and Lennon Parham; Jay Duplass, Robert Cohen and Parham directed.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
