The tribulations of Sam, a 40-year-old from a small town in Kansas whose life has not spared, lend themselves to both laughter and heartache – with no clear boundary between the two. The American press is largely conquered by the series Somebody Somewhere.
“Life is made of sweetness and acidity. It is therefore logical that certain series take the side of extracting the humor that can hide from bitter moments. Among the most successful of these series, IndieWire account Somebody Somewhere, an HBO production broadcast in France by OCS since January 17. Admittedly, the fiction created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen takes drama as its starting point, but humor awaits the viewer at every turn. Therefore, this tragicomedy “gives less the impression of confronting us with the loss of a loved one than of making us think regarding how to find our place in life”.
When we meet Sam (Bridget Everett) in the city of Manhattan, a lost corner of Kansas, she has been mourning her sister Holly for a year. The loneliness of the forties is all the more painful as one feels that it precedes the death of her eldest. sat “spends his weeks exhausting himself in a tedious job of correcting school exams. And her weekends drinking wine, alone and in her underwear, abstract The Hollywood Reporter. It is then that a budding friendship with her colleague Joel (Jeff Hiller) will slowly bring her out of her shell. And to bond with misfits – some younger, some older, some queer and some not – who welcome him with open arms.” The ragtag group, under the guise of “choir rehearsal,” meets regularly to party in an unlikely location: a church inside a derelict shopping mall.
Disarmingly natural characters
“The beating heart of Somebody Somewhere
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Hugo Florent