Somebody Somewhere can be a hard sell. In each of its roughly half-hour episodes, people talk, drive, go home. It is a series of small character studies, set in a sleepy town in Kansas, and whatever plot rears its head tends to gently nudge the drama forward in ever-so-gentle increments. Yet, just as it did in its superlative first season, it stuffs every subtle scene with emotion, poignancy and a great sense of humour.
In season one, Sam (Bridget Everett) returns to her home town of Manhattan, Kansas, from another life, elsewhere, to care for her sister Holly, who was dying of cancer. The action begins after Holly’s death, and follows Sam through a midlife crisis as she struggles to fit back in to the place where she grew up. We see her grieving, friendless, lonely, dealing with an alcoholic mother and a farmer father whose business is disappearing in front of them.
