3/27/2023 0 Comments Bridget everett love you more![]() To me, when I go home to talk to people about queer life in my hometown, there are beautiful things about it, and not so beautiful things about it. Like everybody, somebody goes to New York, someone goes to LA. I just think we’ve all seen that story, you know. It’s kind of refreshing and interesting to see, like, this small-ish town with so much queer life in it. Like I thought that was so, and the beautiful sort of like title cards where you’re always looking at like corn, and you’re just looking at Kansas. And as much of a gut-punch as it was for me to hear that, I can only imagine how my queer friends would have felt.Īnd the decision to have it be this person has not escaped to a metropolitan area, where they’re sort of like undergoing this life change and getting this confidence, where there’s all this baggage and where they still grew up. Loved ones from home, or people that I’ve met have said that to my friends. ![]() The “love the sinner hate the sin” thing. But I have heard that expression from more than one person. And the sister character is different than my living sister, you. But in reality your character is like the ally of this queer person who isn’t there, which is really interesting. And it’s funny because I found myself sort of watching those scenes where you’re arguing and where she’s being so judgmental and thinking like this, you know, it sort of feels like it’s an argument between like a queer person and their family. ![]() The family stuff, especially the stuff with the sister, feels just so real. Because until I got to New York and met people like Murray Hill, I just never really felt like I was home. You know, the loss of the sister, and the sort of floating through life and finding your community. So the themes of our life are very present. And then Paul and Hannah, Carolyn Strauss (one of our other executive producers), me, and then our writer Patty Breen, all five of us got in a room and we did it together. How were you able to make it more personal? But as you said, it’s sort of like, these showrunners created this world. “Somebody Somewhere,” in addition to being one of the most open-hearted shows on TV, gives us the character of Fred Rococo, a trans soil scientist and nightlife scion so fantastic he could only be brought to life by Murray Hill. Neither is the rest of the family, leading Sam to branch out and find her own community consisting of a broad range of colorful queerdos who, like Sam, are making a home in the midwest. ![]() When we meet Sam, her queer sister is dead, her mother is struggling with alcoholism, and her living sister isn’t in a hurry to talk about any of it. And it’s about chosen family just as much as it is about the frustrations, hilarity, and heartbreaks found buried inside biological family units. But it’s realism that Everett is going for here, and she finds it thanks to a supporting cast of queer icons like comedian Murray Hill and Jeff Hiller, who turn Sam’s small hometown into a hidden treasure trove of accepting spaces, open mics, and queer humor. If you know Everett from her live performances, her “Somebody” character, Sam, will strike you as strangely muted. And it’s one of the wholeheartedly queerest shows on TV. It’s a reminiscence, a song of the past, a story at once intimate and sweeping set against the backdrop of Manhattan, Kansas’s many bucolic cornfields and within its church basements. It’s hard to describe a show like “Somebody Somewhere,” comedian and performer Bridget Everett’s first star vehicle for HBO. ![]()
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