HBO's description for the third and final season of Someone somewhere is short: “In season three, we see growth against all odds.” A trailer for the show hints at the source of some of these long odds.
In the trailer (watch it below), Sam (Bridget Everett) is faced with some changes in her life as Joel (Jeff Hiller), who she lives with, receives an offer on his house and prepares to move, while she continues to try. to figure out what he wants out of his 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 more?”
Naturally, there are some jokes in the trailer: Someone somewhere is a comedy series, even if it's not a punchline factory, along with the show's signature sincere warmth towards its characters. The trailer's music track, “Ooh La La” by The Faces, helps emphasize this last point.
HBO announced in August that it would end the critically acclaimed series Someone somewhere with the third season. Everett, who is also a writer and executive producer of the series, said this The Hollywood journalist earlier this year he received praise from people in Manhattan, Kansas – his hometown and setting of the series – for carefully portraying small-town life.
“At different times someone who leads queer studies at Kansas State and the head basketball coach came 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. You don't want your town to turn on you and think you're a big turkey.
Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen created Someone 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. The authors of the third season are Bos and Thureen, Everett, Lisa Kron and Lennon Parham; Directed by Jay Duplass, Robert Cohen and Parham.