The show was produced by the Duplass brothers, who have a solid track record of humane portraits of real people (their earlier HBO show “Togetherness,” 2014’s “The Skeleton Twins”). It asks: What would have happened if you’d ended up staying here? Here, the show is structured around an alternative version of Everett, who’s actually from the “Little Apple” in real life. She’s appeared sporadically on the big and small screen, but except for the failed Amazon Prime pilot “Love You More” in 2017, never as the lead. As a recent profile put it, “traditionally, she ends the show by picking a man out of the crowd and sitting on his face.” She’s been known to a subset of New Yorkers for many years as one of the city’s best and bawdiest cabaret performers (the most PG-rated of her well-known songs is “T**ties”). It’s been fascinating to watch Everett emerge onto the mainstream radar. She’s been working a mind-numbing job as a standardized test grader while trying to help keep various family members afloat, including her other, tightly-wound sister (Mary Catherine Garrison), whose husband is cheating, and their alcoholic mother (Jane Brody).ĭrifting along with a sort of affable frustration, Sam (who seems to be straight) discovers a community in a queer cabaret called Choir Practice, held in a mall church, where she reignites a long-buried desire to be a singer. We meet Sam in the aftermath, sleeping on her late sister’s couch and unsure what to do with the rest of her life. Everett plays Sam, a middle-aged woman who’s moved back to her Kansas hometown, Manhattan, to care for her dying sister.

Anyone have that on your cultural-weirdness bingo card?īridget Everett is the lead in HBO’s “ Somebody Somewhere,” which concluded its short first season Sunday night. The best new show about middle America stars New York City’s raunchiest cabaret singer.

Please note: Spoilers follow for the season finale of “Somebody Somewhere.”

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