Three episodes will be available to start, with new episodes coming weekly. Superhero purists may scoff at this, but those who love muscles, violence, and perverted jokes will lap it up. The first episode starts off a little rocky, but by the time someone explodes and Cena is in his underwear near the end, it finds its groove. If you saw the surprisingly great The Suicide Squad (not to be confused with but of course it's going to be confused with the dud Suicide Squad), you know the tone of this, with Gunn riding the gross-out humor of The Suicide Squad into an origin tale of the best character from the film who wasn't a walking weasel and Cena showing off his magnetic star power as a doofus meathead. “We found that we both come at life with humor and we both love to find the absurdity in things and to laugh about things, and we bond through that laughter,” Hiller said.Īs if to finish his thought, Everett added, “It’s the great survival skill.John Cena brings his The Suicide Squad DC Comics character Peacemaker - a buff guy who wants peace so badly he's willing to be extremely violent about it - to the small screen, with James Gunn writing all the episodes (it was a COVID "fun" project for him) and directing five of them.
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The insular and intimate series is about finding happiness where you are in life, wherever that may be.Įverett and Hiller said they found some of that happiness living together during the COVID-conscious production, during which they learned they share a similar philosophy on life – one that is inherent to the show’s tone. “It is such a gift to give someone and so necessary in life.”īut don’t expect “Somebody Somewhere” to set up its characters to go off and chase down some delayed big-city dream in the final episode. “It feels like a validation that the cool girl in high school is now talking to the gay guy that no one noticed, and she’s saying they are the same and they are on the same level,” Hiller said. In turn, Hiller said Sam validates the insecurities Joel has wrestled with since they were classmates, having never felt like her equal. The little gift of asking her to sing in the first episode is really the gift to enter back into life.” “It is a way for her to feel special and connected to people, and I think it taps into her grief and it helps her come alive in her family relationships. “Joel brings Sam back to music, which is the great love of her life,” Everett said. Having been mesmerized by her as their high school’s star singer, Joel pulls Sam up on stage to sing during the service, a cathartic moment that closes out the pilot and opens up her world. In the first episode, Joel, a gay man striving to find his place in the small-town ideals of faith and family, invites Sam to join his off-the-books church service, where those who don’t fit the general religion or societal mold can commune through music. They spark each other in good and bad ways.”Įverett and Hiller saw their characters’ blossoming friendship as a give and take between two people who don’t yet know how much they can offer the other. But now Joel, this new person in her life, is opening her up again and we like what they do for each other. “Even on the grief side of this story, the last person Sam opened up to was her sister.
“This show, at the heart of it, is about Sam and Joel and their tight friendship and the adventures they go on and the trouble they get in,” Bos said.
When the series opens, Sam finds herself in a new friendship with her aspirational coworker Joel (Jeff Hiller), a former high school classmate who once idolized her and is now her gateway to living again. Even though they know the person we used to be or maybe still are, a hometown is that place where it’s just as safe to laugh as it is to cry. It might not sound like this comedic drama, co-produced by Jay and Mark Duplass, has much to laugh about, but that’s the other reality about hometowns. Around every corner, Sam is confronted with reminders of the sister she recently lost, the dream of a singing career she long ago abandoned, and the alcoholism her mother is choosing to ignore. One fact of life is that hometowns never go easy on us, whether you’re still there or just visiting. “She’s unmoored and has lost her connection to people.” “Sam is sort of drifting through life, she has let it all slip by and then suddenly wakes up and says, ‘where did life go?’” Everett said.
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