Season 2 is not nearly as good.
My favourite character for sure is Jeff Hiller as Joel, Sam’s co-worker and friend. He gets a romantic interest this season.
The show is original. It’s still a relief to watch normal people in normal situations in a normal small town.
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. …
Guardian Review – Somebody Somewhere season two review – even this uplifting comedy’s quietest moments are dazzling
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I mean, obviously no one’s going to cast me as the romantic lead. But I loved playing that tenderness, I loved playing that romance, and I loved thinking about it for Joel and how specific he has laid out what type of relationship he wants. It was sweet, it was tender, I liked it.
Rick McCharles 