When filming began on HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere” back in 2021, co-creator and writer Paul Thureen remembers he and collaborators Bridget Everett and Hannah Bos were still battling doubts they had a show at all. “When we first made the pilot, we were like, ‘Does this count as a TV show? Can you do a TV show about these people and these moments?’” he says.
Feeding those intrusive thoughts was a lack of precedent. Simply put, there was nothing up against which to hold the story of Sam (Everett), a 40-something moving back to her small Manhattan, Kan., hometown with no clue what’s next. But three seasons later, that’s what
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