‘Somebody Somewhere’: Saying Goodbye to TV’s Best, Most Underappreciated Show
That the TV series Somebody Somewhere exists at all, let alone has run for three seasons, is, some would say, a miracle. The first among the people to say that are the ones who made the show. Literally: “It is a miracle that this show is on television,” co-creator Hannah Bos tells me. She and co-creator Paul Thureen had never had their own TV series greenlit before. Bridget Everett, who stars, writes, and executive produces the series, which is loosely inspired by her own life, has never had a showbiz spotlight like this before. It is a series about the quiet power of feelings and emotional growth, centered around a middle-aged woman who feels stuck in her life, set in the rural Midwest—and it airs on HBO’s prestigious Sunday night lineup, where series like House of the Dragon, Succession, Industry, and The White Lotus have recently lived. One thing is not like the others.
Opinion: The Long Slow Death of TV's 'M*A*S*H' and How It Was Never the Same After the Second Season
[Note: This article is a work of nonfiction based on the opinion of the author.]. The classic TV series M*A*S*H was based on the 1970 Korean War medical-military feature film of the same name. The small screen adaptation originally aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983.