This Incredible HBO Max Series Is Coming to Its Final Season and I Need More of You to Give It the Love It Deserves

Admittedly, I’m not someone who watches every buzzing TV show. Bridgerton? I’ve never seen it. Lie to Me? I’ve heard good things. Abbott Elementary School? Sorry, I’m too busy watching King of the Hill for the hundredth time. However, there is one current HBO Max show that I can’t get enough of:Someone Somewhere—because it’s absolutely perfect. Despite its perfection, I have *never* heard anyone talk about it, and when I ask someone if they’ve seen it, the answer is always no. As the third and final season premieres tonight, let me wax poetic about why this show deserves your attention.

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1. Equal Parts Funny *and* Heartbreaking

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I started this drama shortly after. launched In January 2022. The series follows Sam Miller (played by Bridget Everett, who is also a writer and executive producer), a middle-aged woman who returns to her hometown in Kansas after caring for her deceased sister. in a situation age Faced with disappointment and disillusionment, Sam unexpectedly embarks on a journey towards joy, confidence and self-acceptance with the help of a few local misfits.

The series deals with themes of death, terminal illness, alcoholism, infidelity and trauma, and the way it deals with all of this is undeniably moving. But it’s also funny in a strange, slightly self-deprecating and delightfully honest way. (St.Louis sushi That’s all I have to say.)

2. The Characters Feel Like Real People

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These aren’t flashy, done, Instagram-ready actors Enthusiasm. They look like people you might see in the supermarket. Not only does the show’s aesthetic feel authentic (especially for small-town Kansas), but the characters are often placed in nuanced situations that are uniquely funny, yet deeply universal.

For example, Joel (played by Jeff Hiller) gets caught sneaking up on his crush and ends up having a fascinatingly tense first date. Sam’s sister Tricia (played by Mary Catherine Garrison), in a wine-fuelled rage to get revenge on her old friend who is having a secret affair with her husband, begins selling live-laugh-love style pillows with a sinister emoticon on them. They could be anyone of us, right?

3. Explores the Importance of Adult Friendships

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IMO the focus is usually on teenage characters and coming-of-age stories. friendship. Here you see middle-aged people seeking acceptance and desperately searching for their place in the world, emphasizing that these are lifelong efforts. Of course, we know this is true, but we don’t often see examples of this in the media. It brings our most embarrassing and timeless insecurities into the spotlight in a way that can feel prickly at first, but seeing them openly displayed potentially allows us to be more sensitive to ourselves.

I find it particularly impressive that the characters are middle-aged. Sam is old enough to be responsible for caring for his sick parents, but still young enough to flirt with his hot neighbor and get drunk on the party bus at his friend’s bachelorette party. When her sister is dying, she takes on the adult role, but still harbors a childish grudge when she learns that Joel has kept his new lover a secret from her.

This suggests that we do not simply grow out of these inherently mortal sensitivities and desires. As a 31-year-old, I find it strangely comforting to see that life doesn’t magically unravel as we get older.

First episode of the third and final season Someone Somewhere It premieres on HBO Max tonight at 10:30pm EST, so if you ask me, now is the perfect time to watch it.

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