6/28/2023 0 Comments The bench by joel elston![]() The loosely autobiographical series imagines how the hypersexual alt-cabaret diva-comedian Bridget Everett might have turned out had she never become Bridget Everett. But Joel remembered Sam, and treated her like a star-something she might’ve been, if she’d tried. ![]() (When Sam broke down at the office, mourning her sister’s passing, Joel was the only one to comfort her.) Sam didn’t remember him from their teen-age years despite his six-foot-five gangliness and nearly-as-wide grin. But the two didn’t become friends until adulthood, when Sam moved back home to care for her terminally ill sister, Holly, and happened to find work alongside Joel at a standardized-testing company. ![]() Years earlier, Sam and Joel had been in show choir together at their high school in suburban Kansas, where Sam was a promising vocalist. ![]() Sitting in the audience of a children’s voice recital, fortysomething Sam ( Bridget Everett) asks her best friend Joel (Jeff Hiller), jokingly but not, “Is that what hope and promise looks like?” She’s the snarker and he’s the giggler-a dynamic established in the first season of HBO’s marvellously understated hangout dramedy “Somebody Somewhere,” but before then, too. ![]()
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